What are people using this 'cdb' for, irl? Sounds interesting but this is the first i've heard of it.
I used it in combination with the public dumps from IMDB to make a quick on-disk lookup database for use with my favorite (albeit slower) scripting language python. I didn't have the RAM for holding it all in memory and I was only ever going to do read lookups on it. It made it very easy to query things like: Given my favorite set of movies, which actors appearing in them have also appeared in the Doctor Who televisi…
Incidentally, I've heard the IMDB site itself uses cdbs heavily to serve static content and data.