On Friday, 4 May 2012 16:27:54 UTC+1, Steve Howell wrote: > On May 3, 6:10 pm, Miki Tebeka <miki.teb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm looking for a fairly lightweight key/value store that works for > > > this type of problem: > > > > I'd start with a benchmark and try some of the things that are already in > > the standard library: > > - bsddb > > - sqlite3 (table of key, value, index key) > > - shelve (though I doubt this one) > > > > Thanks. I think I'm ruling out bsddb, since it's recently deprecated: > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/106494 > > I'll give sqlite3 a spin. Has anybody out there wrapped sqlite3 > behind a hash interface already? I know it's simple to do > conceptually, but there are some minor details to work out for large > amounts of data (like creating the index after all the inserts), so if > somebody's already tackled this, it would be useful to see their > code. > > > You might find that for a little effort you get enough out of one of these. > > > > Another module which is not in the standard library is hdf5/PyTables and in > > my experience very fast. > > Thanks.
Could also look at Tokyo cabinet or Kyoto cabinet (but I believe that has slightly different licensing conditions for commercial use). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
