Chapter 26  The dbm library: access to NDBM databases

The dbm library provides access to NDBM databases under Unix. NDBM databases maintain key/data associations, where both the key and the data are arbitrary strings. They support fairly large databases (several gigabytes) and can retrieve a keyed item in one or two file system accesses. Refer to the Unix manual pages for more information.

Unix:   Programs that use the dbm library must be linked as follows:

        ocamlc other options dbm.cma other files
        ocamlopt other options dbm.cmxa other files

For interactive use of the dbm library, do:

        ocamlmktop -o mytop dbm.cma
        ./mytop

or (if dynamic linking of C libraries is supported on your platform), start ocaml and type #load "dbm.cma";;.

Windows:   This library is not available.

• Module Dbm: interface to the NDBM database