[Berkeley DB Announce] Major Release: Berkeley DB 12gR1 (12.1.6.0)

[Announcements related to the Berkeley DB product family.]

Berkeley DB 12gR1 (12.1.6.0)

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/berkeley-db/index.html 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index-085366.html 

We are pleased to announce a new major release of Berkeley DB 12gR1 (12.1.6.0). There are many features and enhancements in this release. Below are some of the major areas of focus.

High Availability
- HA partial replication feature
- HA "Viewer" mode enables more sophisticated configurations

SQL API
- improved SQL HA usability, multi-process support
- SQL security: support for JDBC encryption

Small Device Platforms
- Better integration with the Oracle Java Embedded Client (OJEC)
- Simplified configuration for embedded targets using app specific recommendations 

Performance
- Faster performance in many-core environments and MVCC
- BLOB performance improvements

Product Downloads:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html 

http://download.oracle.com/otn/berkeley-db/db-6.0.19.tar.gz 
http://download.oracle.com/otn/berkeley-db/db-6.0.19.zip 
http://download.oracle.com/otn/berkeley-db/db-6.0.19.msi 
http://download.oracle.com/otn/berkeley-db/db-6.0.19.NC.tar.gz 
http://download.oracle.com/otn/berkeley-db/db-6.0.19.NC.zip 
http://download.oracle.com/otn/berkeley-db/dbsql-adodotnet-6.0.19.zip 
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Consult the change log for the complete list of changes.
http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/berkeleydb/html/changelog_6_0.html 

Product Documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_03/html/index.html 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/db-faq-095848.html 

License Change
Starting with the 6.0 / 12c releases, all Berkeley DB products are licensed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (AGPL), version 3. This license is published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) (1) and approved by the Open Source Initiative (2).  Please review the terms of the license to ensure compliance before upgrading to the 12c release. Previous releases of Berkeley DB software will continue to be distributed under the Sleepycat license.
(1) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html 
(2) http://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0 

Product Community, the Oracle Technology Network:
Social:
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2131985 
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/berkeleydb 

General Berkeley DB Questions:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=271 

Questions about Berkeley DB's Replication and High Availability (HA) features:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=272 

Licensing, Sales, and Other Questions: mailto:berkeleydb-info_us at oracle.com


Thank you for your support of Berkeley DB.

Eric Jensen

Product Manager | Oracle Berkeley DB