per <perfr...@gmail.com> writes: > 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
berkeley db is pretty fast. locking and such nice features are included. the module you'd be looking at is bsddb i believe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
