BerkeleyDB also improved on things like dbm¹, ndbm, qdbm and cdb. > I would consider SQLite, itself 20+ years old now, the intellectual heir of BDB. Indeed.

BerkeleyDB also improved on things like dbm¹, ndbm, qdbm and cdb. > I would consider SQLite, itself 20+ years old now, the intellectual heir of BDB. Indeed. I've worked on projects that only use the btree part of SQLite. If all you need is a btree it's a good place to start. 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBM_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBM_(computing)