Sun StorageTek5800 System Client API
TheSunTM StorageTekTM 5800 system client API provides programmatic access to a 5800 system
serverto store, retrieve, query, and delete object data and metadata. Synchronous versions are
providedin C and JavaTM languages. A future release will implement a non-blocking C API for
usewith POSIX operations.
Thischapter provides a summary of the changes for the Sun StorageTek 5800 System 1.1
release,and overviews of the client APIs and query language.
Thefollowing topics are discussed:
■“Changesin Version 1.1” on page 15
■“5800System Overview” on page 16

Changes inVersion 1.1

Thefollowing general changes have been made in Version 1.1.
■Handlingis added for storing, retrieving, and querying the following metadata types:
– char— for Latin 1 character set
– string— for Unicode character set
– binary
– date
– time
– timestamp
■Queryand queryplus are merged.
■Preparedstatements (pstmts) are introduced to handle the values of queries that cannot be
placedinline, and a new query is introduced to handle them.
■Thehandling of strings that are longer than the string length of the associated eld has
changed.
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