My own implementation is under http://www.die-schoens.de/prg License is Apache. Its disk-based, maps to shared memory where it also can do locking (i. e. multiuser), file format protects against crash etc. All of the above can be easily switched off (compile or runtime if you like). So bare bone would be almost ANSI-C, basically caching in ones own memory and not locking at all. Test program is included. Currently, it only deals with fixed-size fields, but I am working on that...
