---
name: "swordfish"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "swordfish"
version: "0.12-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/swordfish"
---

# swordfish(1)

high-level persistent key-value database

## NAME

swordfish - high-level persistent key-value database

## SYNOPSIS

**sworfish**

## DESCRIPTION

Swordfish is a key-value database for primarily storing and processing sorted sets (or "trees"). It is intended to supplement a relational database such as MySQL.

It can be interfaced from any language with a HTTP client.

## OPTIONS

- configfile

  Read options from specified configuration file.

## AUTHOR

**swordfish** was written by Chris Lamb \<chris@playfire.com\>.