Berkeley DB, Java Edition (JE) is an open source, pure Java, embedded, transactional datastore. It is designed to be deployed in a multithreaded, high-concurrency environment as a transactional engine for handling terabytes of information. Its persistence capabilities are used in applications developed by the Internet Archive, Amazon, and Cisco.

This talk focuses on three of the interesting aspects of the JE architecture and some of the issues that were encountered during development. The talk is directed at software engineers who are interested in real-world database internals programming and debugging.

Charles Lamb is a Consulting MTS for Oracle (formerly from Sleepycat Software) working on the Berkeley DB Java Edition (JE). He has worked on DBMS internals and applications for over 20 years and was a founder at Object Design, an object database company.