The current Berkeley DB documentation, available only online, is outdated. Sleepycat has decided to partner with New Riders to both update their documentation and make it available in print form.
More than solely a rehash of the documentation, the book will be split into two parts. The first section is a tutorial on using the Berkeley DB. It covers methods, architecture, data applications, memory, client-server, configuring the API's in Perl, Java, and Tcl, how to use the BDB with Sendmail, debugging issues, etc.
The second part of the book is a reference section of the various Berkeley DB API's.
About the Author
Founded in 1996, Sleepycat Software, Inc. develops, distributes, and supports the Berkeley DB embedded database. This privately held company is well known for being the first to create and currently the oldest to distribute the most popular open source embedded database in existence.
Keith Bostik, Sleepycat founder, is a co-author on The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD System, Addison Wesley, April 1996, ISBN 0-201-54979-4.
