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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 |