ITTIA has ported an embeddable, open source, C-language database to ARM Linux, and is inviting developers who write code for Linux on ARM to join a user support community it maintains. The ARM port of db.* targets routers, cell phones, cameras, and other resource-constrained devices.

The db.* database, a small-footprint C-language database, was first released by Raima in the 1980s as dbvista. Raima was subsequently acquired by Centura, which released it as db.* in 2000. Centura subsequently went out of business, and db.* was released to the open source community, where ITTIA, a small database consulting company in Bellevue, Wash., adopted it, in August of 2004.

ITTIA says db.* on the ARM processor has a footprint under 200KB, and supports network and relational models. It can be optimized for battery life, speed, CPU usage, heat, and memory requirements, the company says. The database is ACID-compliant (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable), and can recover everything up to the last commit transaction following a power interruption or system crash.

db.* is freely distributed as source code, and has no development or runtime license fees. Support is available for free from the community, and paid professional support contracts are available from ITTIA.

ITTIA maintains a user community for db.* called Club ITTIA. Paid members receive code updates, upgrades, and access to a growing set of test suites for db.*, ITTIA says.

More information is available online.

 
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