InfinityDB

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InfinityDB is an embedded database engine written in Java. It is based on a fast, reliable and high concurrent B-Tree architecture to guarantee high performance. It can represent and manipulate relational data and non-tabular or custom structures. InfinityDB is appropriate for memory- or disk-oriented embedded hardware platforms, text indexing engines, distributed industrial data collection systems, heterogenous data environments and much more.

History

The Infinity Database Engine was first written by Roger L. Deran in the Intel 8088 assembly language in the 1980s. It was then re-written to be entirely in Java in 2002 and now marketed by Boiler Bay Inc.

InfinityDB can achieve high compression on disk and in memory. The system packs data into variable-length blocks by continuous, dynamic ZLib and UTF-8 data compression methods, reducing block-internal free space. ZLib is used for compressing common 'substrings' in any kind of data, and ZLib's Huffman coding is used for ASCII, UTF-16 or other small values. Furthermore, prefix and suffix compression are used. For example, common-prefixes in keys and common suffixes in upper trees levels are removed. Other compression methods including variable-length concatenations of primitives and variable-length binary-encoded primitives are used as well.

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