Allocate user memory (Server)

To handle dynamic memory allocation of user memory, use one of the following DataBlade API memory-management functions.

Memory-allocation task	DataBlade API function
To allocate user memory with the current memory duration	mi_alloc()
To allocate user memory with a specified memory duration	mi_dalloc()
To allocate user memory with the current memory duration that is initialized with zeros	mi_zalloc()

These user-memory-allocation functions allocate memory from the shared memory of the database server at a particular memory duration.

Tip: The DataBlade API library also provides memory-management functions to manage named memory. These named-memory-management functions are advanced functions. Use them only when user-memory-management functions cannot perform the task you need done. For more information, see Manage named memory.