### 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.

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