About
Welcome to the home page of HeliDB – a simple and fast Java database!
HeliDB is a database for persisting key—value pairs from a Java program.
Users have many choices in configuring what capabilities they want the database
to have and in how the data is stored. In its simplest configuration, HeliDB is
just a file-backed Map. More advanced configurations support
transactions and fast searches and inserts through using B+ Trees.
Notable features are:
- The HeliDB
Databaseinterface extends Java'sMap, so a HeliDB database can be used as a drop-in replacement for aMap. - The
Databaseinterface defines methods that are more efficient for working with persistent data than the methods fromMap. - A database can be configured to support transactions.
- Database operations can be made faster by indexing data in B+ Trees.
- Database object creation is fast, so clients can create new databases as necessary without having to worry about performance.
- The database runs in the same process as the Java program which makes database calls just local function calls. (i.e. fast)
When should I use HeliDB?
HeliDB is a great choice when you want to persist key—value pairs, but don't want to use a full-blown SQL database.
What limitations does HeliDB have?
- Data is stored as key—value pairs. There is no way of searching for data within values (like selecting for data in table columns in an SQL database).
- Transactions don't allow concurrent writes to the same database.
News
- 08/27/2008: HeliDB 1.0 released!
- The initial version of HeliDB was released.