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Rickard Oberg mentions JDBM as a replacement for JISP for lightweight high performance storage management. This jogged my memory a bit, and I think not many have mentioned SMYLE.

SMYLE is has a bunch of extremely interesting features for a lightweight storage manager. What struck me were the following "self-optimizing indexes", "multidimensional indexes", "journalling" and "schema evolution". He's got a benchmark against MySQL that shows it being 10x faster. No surprise considering you don't have network roundtrips.

I haven't looked at it yet in detail, but this may prove interesting for certain classes of applications. Funny, thought I read somewhere what S.M.Y.L.E stands for, but I can't seem to retrieve it. Oh, well, you got to take a look yourself