Sleepycat Software, Inc.

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Berkeley DB is the leading open source developer database in the world with over 200 million deployments. Customers rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. Berkeley DB is part of Oracle's embedded database product line, which includes Oracle TimesTen for high performance in-memory database applications and Oracle Lite for mobile applications.In the early 1990's while at the University of California at Berkeley, Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic developed a new key/value database to replace dbm file-based storage found in UNIX systems. This database evolved to become Berkeley DB version 1.85 and was broadly distributed with the release of 4.4BSD UNIX in 1992. The code became very popular and was widely adopted, but users wanted commercial support and new features added to the software. In response, Seltzer and Bostic formed Sleepycat Software in 1996. The company released version 2.0 in 1997, 3.0 in 1999 and 4.0 in 2001, with multiple point releases in between. In 2003, Sleepycat added a second product to its offerings, Berkeley DB XML, an embedded XML database. In 2004, the company added a third, Berkeley DB Java Edition, a pure Java version of Berkeley DB. In February 2006, Oracle acquired Sleepycat Software.Through an innovative dual licensing model, Berkeley DB has gained tremendous ubiquity through open source and proprietary customer adoption. Today, there are well over 200 million deployments worldwide. Customers include telecom and networking leaders such as Cisco, Motorola and Ericsson, computing giants such as Sun, HP, Hitachi and Fujitsu, service providers such as Google, Amazon.com, AOL and Yahoo, and storage leaders such as EMC and VERITAS. Berkeley DB is also widely used in open source projects, including all versions of Linux and BSD UNIX, OpenLDAP, sendmail, Kerberos, various Apache projects, Subversion, MySQL, OpenOffice and many others.

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