DBM::Deep

DBM::Deep is a pure Perl multi-level hash/array DBM that supports transactions and offers a unique flat-file database system. Its main features are:

• true multi-level hash/array support (unlike MLDBM, which is faked)
• hybrid OO / tie() interface
• cross-platform FTPable files
• ACID transactions
• written in Pure-Perl: runs on Unix, OS X and Windows
• high performance

DBM::Deep is quite fast, able to handle millions of keys and unlimited levels without significant slow-downs.

It was written from the ground-up in pure perl - this is NOT a wrapper around a C-based DBM. Because of that, we provide out-of-the-box compatibility with Unix, Mac OS X and Windows.

Basic Usage

      use DBM::Deep;
      my $db = DBM::Deep->new( "foo.db" );

      $db->{key} = 'value';
      print $db->{key};

      $db->put('key' => 'value');
      print $db->get('key');

      # true multi-level support
      $db->{my_complex} = [
          'hello', { perl => 'rules' },
          42, 99,
      ];

      $db->begin_work;

      # Do stuff here

      $db->rollback;
      $db->commit;

      tie my %db, 'DBM::Deep', 'foo.db';
      $db{key} = 'value';
      print $db{key};

      tied(%db)->put('key' => 'value');
      print tied(%db)->get('key');

Installation

cpanm DBM::Deep

or manually:

perl Build.PL
make test
make install

More Information

Please refer to the complete DBM::Deep documentation online for more information on how to use DBM::Deep. After installing this module, you'll also be able to reach that documentation locally by typing perldoc DBM::Deep.

We also have collected several interesting recipes on the DBM::Deep Cookbook,

and you still have questions or concerns you can check the DBM::Deep Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBM-Deep, or send an email to [email protected].

Finally, You can also visit #dbm-deep on irc.perl.org.

The source code repository is at http://github.com/robkinyon/dbm-deep

Maintainers

Rob Kinyon, [email protected]

Originally written by Joseph Huckaby, [email protected]

Sponsors

Stonehenge Consulting (http://www.stonehenge.com/) sponsored the development of transactions and freespace management, leading to the 1.0000 release. A great debt of gratitude goes out to them for their continuing leadership in and support of the Perl community.

Contributors

The following have contributed greatly to make DBM::Deep what it is today:

• Adam Sah and Rich Gaushell for innumerable contributions early on.
• Dan Golden and others at YAPC::NA 2006 for helping me design through transactions.
• James Stanley for bug fix
• David Steinbrunner for fixing typos and adding repository cpan metadata
• H. Merijn Brandt for fixing the POD escapes.

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2007-2015 Rob Kinyon. All Rights Reserved. This is free software, you may use it and distribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.