Available replacements for the deprecated Berkeley DB (libdb) in RHEL

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The libdb package is deprecated as of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and might not be available in future major RHEL releases (RHEL 10 or later). Users of libdb are advised to migrate to a different key-value database. This article suggests replacements for libdb in RHEL.

RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 currently provide libdb 5.3.28, which is di...

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