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tokyocabinet
Description
Tokyo Cabinet DBM bindings for Chicken.
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The following flags and procedures are defined (currently only the hash database API is provided - B-trees and fixed-length databases may be provided later). For more information, consult the tokyocabinet(3) manual pages.
tc-hdb-open
(tc-hdb-open FILE #!key FLAGS
TUNE-OPTS
MUTEX?
NUM-BUCKETS
RECORD-ALIGNMENT
NUM-FREE-BLOCKS
CACHE-LIMIT
MMAP-SIZE)
Returns a HDB object as a c-pointer. FLAGS specify the creation and locking behavior and can include any of the following:
[constant] TC_HDBOWRITER[constant] TC_HDBOREADER
[constant] TC_HDBOCREAT
[constant] TC_HDBOTRUNC
[constant] TC_HDBONOLCK
[constant] TC_HDBOLCKNB
By default files are opened for reading and writing and creating.
TUNE-OPTS, along with the other keywords specify options to the tchdbtune function. MUTEX? opens the file under mutex mode (as with tchdbsetmutex).
tc-hdb-close
(tc-hdb-close HDB)
Closes and frees the database handle.
tc-hdb-put!
(tc-hdb-put! HDB KEY VALUE)
tc-hdb-delete!
(tc-hdb-delete! DBF KEY)
tc-hdb-get
(tc-hdb-get HDB KEY)
Returns a STRING
tc-hdb-iter-init
(tc-hdb-iter-init HDB)
tc-hdb-iter-next
(tc-hdb-iter-next HDB)
Returns a STRING
tc-hdb-iter-fold
(tc-hdb-iter-fold HDB KONS KNIL)
Returns the accumulated result. Specify ALIST-CONS for the KONS to get an alist representation of the database.
Changelog
- 1.0 Initial release
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Copyright (c) 2008, Alex Shinn
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