I read about using Lucene as a database on the Lucene mailinglist. Then someone threw in BerkeleyDB as an alternative. I thought yeah right, an Oracle db. It will probably be lightweight and easy to use NOT!

I was wrong however it is easy as hell and the tutorial on the Oracle webpage is super. I’m surprised to see such a full blown db with foreign keys, various constraints etc having such an easy API.

Check it out

And here is my Tuple implementation