Kyoto tycoon is a lightweight database server with auto expiration mechanism, useful to handle cache data and persistent data of various applications.

kyoto tycoon provides a network interface to the kyoto cabinet dbm. building on top of kyoto cabinet's high performance and high concurrency, kyoto tycoon allows multiple processes (as opposed to just multiple threads) and computers to share the same database. providing an efficient remote database, the architecture of kyoto tycoon keeps this feature optional??file formats are still kyoto cabinet (unless using pluggable databases).

kyoto tycoon is composed of the server process managing multiple databases and its access library for client applications.

this package contains the documentation.