Tokyo Cabinet的Tokyo Cabinet 是一个DBM的实现。这里的数据库由一系列key-value对的记录构成。key和value都可以是任意长度的字节序列,既可以是二进制也可以是字符串。这里没有数据类型和数据表的概念。

作者叫Mikio Hirabayashi.Tokyo Cabinet是用C写的，同时提供c,perl,ruby,java的API。Tokyo Cabinet在提供了POSIX和C99的平台上都可用，它以GNU Lesser Public License协议发布。-Tokyo 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. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized in hash table, B+ tree, or fixed-length array.Tokyo Cabinet is written in the C language, and provided as API of C, Perl, Ruby, Java, and Lua. Tokyo Cabinet is available on platforms which have API conforming to C99 and POSIX. Tokyo Cabinet is a free

software licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.