### Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Access Methods |

# Database statistics

The DB->stat function is the standard interface for obtaining database statistics. Generally, DB->stat returns a set of statistics about the underlying database, e.g., the number of key/data pairs in the database, how the database was originally configured, and so on.

There are two flags that you can set to customize the returned statistics:

DB_CACHED_COUNTS
  Request an approximate key and key/data pair count. As obtaining an exact count can be very performance intensive for large databases, it is possible to request a previously cached count. Obviously, the cached count is only an approximate count, and may be out-of-date.

DB_RECORDCOUNT
  If the database is a Queue or Recno database, or a Btree database that was configured so that it is possible to search it by logical record number, return only a count of the records in the database.

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