GinTon wrote: > EyeDB is a free ODBMS based on the ODMG 3 specification with > programming interfaces for C++ and Java. It is very powerfull, mature, > safe and stable. In fact, it was developed in 1992 for the Genome View > project althought rewritten in 1994, and has been used in a lot of > bioinformatics projects > > http://www.eyedb.org/
I've added this very interesting database to the selection case: http://case.lazaridis.com/wiki/Persist > Python does not have any programming interface to ODBMS and I believe > that it would be very interesting that the Python community could > access to a great object database like this one. > > If somebody is interested could to using SIP as Python wrapper. PyQT4 > bindings were made with SIP > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/ > > These are the conclusions of several Python wrappers that shows that > SIP generates the fastest wrappers: > http://people.web.psi.ch/geus/talks/europython2004_geus.pdf > > * Manual wrapping is still fastest and most versatile > * SIP, Boost and Babel generate native extension modules with low > overhead > * SWIG-generated modules rely on pure Python wrapper module and > introduce a large overhead > * Wrapper tool highlights: > - SIP generates the fastest wrappers > - SWIG is mature and well documented > - Boost.Python most elegant integration of C++ and Python > - Babel supports languages as both target and source I will take this information in account when selecting a binding: http://case.lazaridis.com/wiki/Binding Possibly more important that speed is the simplicity, e.g. how simple is it to produce the wrapper and how simple is it to update the wrapper. > If you want to know more about ODBMS here you have some interesting > links: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_database > http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/techs/oodbms2/oodbms-toc.shtml > http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/5/3/32853/11281 > http://www.odbms.org/introduction_whenODBMS.html > http://archive.devx.com/dbzone/articles/sf0801/sf0801-1.asp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
