On 18 juin, 05:28, per <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all, > > i'm looking for a native python package to run a very simple data > base. i was originally using cpickle with dictionaries for my problem, > but i was making dictionaries out of very large text files (around > 1000MB in size) and pickling was simply too slow. > > i am not looking for fancy SQL operations, just very simple data base > operations (doesn't have to be SQL style) and my preference is for a > module that just needs python and doesn't require me to run a separate > data base like Sybase or MySQL. > > does anyone have any recommendations? the only candidates i've seen > are snaklesql and buzhug... any thoughts/benchmarks on these? > > any info on this would be greatly appreciated. thank you
Hi, buzhug syntax doesn't use SQL statements, but a more Pythonic syntax : from buzhug import Base db = Base('foo').create(('name',str),('age',int)) db.insert('john',33) # simple queries print db(name='john') # complex queries print [ rec.name for rec in db if age > 30 ] # update rec.update(age=34) I made a few speed comparisons with Gadfly, KirbyBase (another pure- Python DB, not maintained anymore) and SQLite. You can find the results on the buzhug home page : http://buzhug.sourceforge.net The conclusion is that buzhug is much faster than the other pure- Python db engines, and (only) 3 times slower than SQLite - Pierre -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list