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GDBM

hash library of database functions compatible with traditional dbm
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Summary

GDBM is a software library[1]. GDBM is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Philip Arne Nelson[3]
  • Instance of: GNU package[4]
  • Maintained by: Sergey Poznyakoff[5], Philip Arne Nelson[6]
  • Movement: free software movement[7]
  • Based on: dbm[8]
  • Copyright license: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later[9]
  • Programmed in: C[10]
  • Operating system: GNU/Linux[11], BSD[12], macOS[13], Microsoft Windows[14], Unix-like operating system[15]
  • Software version identifier: 1.18.1[16], 1.19[17], 1.18[18], 1.20[19], 1.21[20], 1.22[21], 1.23[22], 1.24[23], 1.25[24], 1.26[25]
  • Part of: GNU Project[26]
  • Has use: database engine[27]
  • Inception: 1988[28]
  • Official website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/[29], https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/[30]
  • Email address: mailto:bug-gdbm@gnu.org[31]
  • Source code repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gdbm.git[32], https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gdbm.git[33], https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/[34]
  • User manual URL: https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/manual/index.html[35], https://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/manual/[36]
  • Copyright holder: Free Software Foundation[37]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[38]

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  7. [9] ↑ . Free Software Directory. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Free Software Directory. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . lists.gnu.org. Retrieved . lists.gnu.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Free Software Directory. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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