Bug#676630: ITP: ruby-kyotocabinet -- Kyoto Cabinet is an efficient database library like GDBM and NDBM.

[shawn <shawn@jengr.tk>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>

* Package name    : ruby-kyotocabinet
  Version         : 1.32
  Upstream Author : Mikio Hirabayashi <info@fallabs.com>
* URL             : http://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/
* License         : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Kyoto Cabinet is an efficient database library like GDBM and NDBM.

Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database
is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a
value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary
data and character string can be used as a key and a value. Each key must be
unique within a database. There is neither concept of data tables nor data
types. Records are organized in hash table or B+ tree.

Kyoto Cabinet runs very fast. For example, elapsed time to store one million
records is 0.9 seconds for hash database, and 1.1 seconds for B+ tree
database. Moreover, the size of database is very small. For example,
overhead for a record is 16 bytes for hash database, and 4 bytes for B+ tree
database. Furthermore, scalability of Kyoto Cabinet is great. The database
size can be up to 8EB (9.22e18 bytes).