SDB (string database)

sdb is a simple string key/value database based on djb's cdb disk storage and supports arrays introspection.

Author

pancake panca.nosp@m.ke@n.nosp@m.opcod.nosp@m.e.or.nosp@m.g

Contains

• namespaces (multiple sdb paths)
• atomic database sync (never corrupted)
• commandline frontend for sdb databases
• arrays support (syntax sugar)

Rips

• disk storage based on cdb code
• linked lists from rizin api

Compilation

SDB requires Meson and Ninja buildsystems to be built:

meson build
ninja -C build

Changes

I have modified cdb code a little to create smaller databases and be memory leak free in order to use it from a library.

The sdb's cdb database format is 10% smaller than the original one. This is because keylen and valuelen are encoded in 4 bytes: 1 for the key length and 3 for the value length.

In a test case, a 4.3MB cdb database takes only 3.9MB after this file format change.

Usage example

Let's create a database!

$ sdb d hello=world
$ sdb d hello
world

Using arrays (>=0.6):

$ sdb - '[]list=1,2' '[0]list' '[0]list=foo' '[]list' '[+1]list=bar'
1
foo
2

Using the commandline without any disk database:

$ sdb - foo=bar foo a=3 +a -a
bar
4
3

$ sdb -
foo=bar
foo
bar
a=3
+a
4
-a
3

Remove the database

$ rm -f d