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| author | Ben Johnson <benbjohnson@yahoo.com> | 2014-03-08 19:45:56 -0800 |
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| committer | Ben Johnson <benbjohnson@yahoo.com> | 2014-03-08 19:45:56 -0800 |
| commit | 4e252b8a7f3df03ff8a079de1e3d7c64f0fcde6d (patch) | |
| tree | 93ac43914f9cd20c8eea13f18105e55026a7ea8d /doc.go | |
| parent | Merge pull request #60 from benbjohnson/tx (diff) | |
| parent | Consolidate Tx and RWTx. (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #61 from benbjohnson/merge-tx
Consolidate Tx and RWTx
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@@ -14,14 +14,15 @@ The design of Bolt is based on Howard Chu's LMDB database project. Basics -There are only a few types in Bolt: DB, Bucket, Tx, RWTx, and Cursor. The DB is +There are only a few types in Bolt: DB, Bucket, Tx, and Cursor. The DB is a collection of buckets and is represented by a single file on disk. A bucket is a collection of unique keys that are associated with values. -Txs provide read-only access to data inside the database. They can retrieve -key/value pairs and can use Cursors to iterate over the entire dataset. RWTxs -provide read-write access to the database. They can create and delete buckets -and they can insert and remove keys. Only one RWTx is allowed at a time. +Transactions provide either read-only or read-write access to the database. +Read-only transactions can retrieve key/value pairs and can use Cursors to +iterate over the dataset sequentially. Read-write transactions can create and +delete buckets and can insert and remove keys. Only one read-write transaction +is allowed at a time. Caveats |