### Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Simple Tutorial |

# Introduction

As an introduction to Berkeley DB, we will present a few Berkeley DB programming concepts, and then a simple database application.

The programming concepts are:

- Key/data pairs
- Object handles
- Error returns

This database application will:

- Create a simple database
- Store items
- Retrieve items
- Remove items
- Close the database

The introduction will be presented using the programming language C. The complete source of the final version of the example program is included in the Berkeley DB distribution.

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