iowow

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "IOWOW \u2014 `C11` utility library and persistent key/value storage engine\n==================================================================================================================\n\n**NOTE: Issues tracker is disabled. You are welcome to contribute, pull requests accepted.**\n\n[![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/Softmotions/ejdb.svg)](https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/blob/master/LICENSE)\n![Maintained](https://img.shields.io/maintenance/yes/2025.svg)\n\n# Key components\n\n* [utils](https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/tree/master/src/utils) Useful data structures and various commonly used routines.\n* [json](https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/tree/master/src/json) JSON parsing and manipulation routines incluing JSON Patch/Pointers support.\n* [iwkv.h](https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/blob/master/src/kv/iwkv.h) Persistent key/value database engine.\n* [iwfsmfile.h](https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/blob/master/src/fs/iwfsmfile.h) File blocks allocation manager like `malloc()` on files.\n\n## IWKV Features\n\n* Support of multiple key-value databases within a single file\n* Online database backups\n* Native support of integer keys\n* Write Ahead Logging (WAL)\n* Ultra-fast traversal of database records\n* Compound keys support\n* Good performance comparing its main competitors: `lmdb`, `leveldb`, `kyoto cabinet`\n* Tiny C11 library (200Kb) can be easily embedded into any software\n\n## IWKV Limitations\n\n* Maximum iwkv storage file size: `512 GB (0x7fffffff80)`\n* Total size of a single key+value record must be not greater than `255Mb (0xfffffff)`\n\n# Prerequisites\n\n* Linux, macOS or FreeBSD\n* gcc or clang compiler (clang is preferred since allows code blocks API provided by this project)\n* pkgconf or pkg-config\n\n# Build by [Autark](https://github.com/Softmotions/autark)\n\n```sh\n./build.sh\n```\n\n## Install\n\n```sh\n./build.sh --prefix=$HOME/.local\n```\n\n# Examples\n\n[src/kv/examples](https://github.com/Softmotions/iowow/tree/master/src/kv/examples)\n\n## Store and retri",
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