Alternatives to traditional RDBMS

[James Mills]

Hi all,

Are there any known alternatives
to the traditional RDBMS (MySQL,
PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc0 /

I know of 3 written in Python:
* buzhug
* kirbybase
* PyDbLite

buzhug
---------

Although buzhug has a group
membership size of ~60 or so it
has not seen any activity in some
time - and any activity that exists
is slow and far and in-between.

That said, buzhug is has a nice
OO/Pythonic design and is quite
nice to use. I have been working
in improving it and have fixed issues
I've come across in a branch of
the original buzhug code that I
now maintain.

I fear the author of buzhug has lost
interest and gone elsewhere to
tinker with (better) other things ?

kirbybase
------------

A nice small (also pure) python
OO database. Developed quite
some time ago, not actively
worked on, but works really well..

PyDbLite
----------

Also developed quite some time
ago, similar to both kirbybase
and buzhug.

Are there any others out there ?
Is anyone working on something ?

I would like to continue my work
on buzhug... I have so:
* Fixed several bugs
* Implemented a WSGI middleware layer

I'd like to refactor a lot of it's code
and make better use of more recent
features of python as buzhug was
written quite some time ago. I think
it's "protocol" could be vastly improved
as well - as pickling things doesn't
always work so well...

In addition, I think buzhug could do
with some caching features to speed
database operations up (they're already
pretty fast).

cheers
James

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi all,

Are there any known alternatives
to the traditional RDBMS (MySQL,
PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc0 /

I know of 3 written in Python:
* buzhug
* kirbybase
* PyDbLite

ZODB. Without any problems usable without ZOPE, clusterable, ACID-conform
and so forth.

Diez

 

[Daniel Fetchinson]

Are there any known alternatives

ZODB. Without any problems usable without ZOPE, clusterable, ACID-conform
and so forth.

There is also dejavu: http://www.aminus.net/dejavu

 

[James Mills]

There is also dejavu: http://www.aminus.net/dejavu

This is an ORM. They are
off-topic for this thread

cheers
James

 

[alex23]

This is an ORM. They are
off-topic for this thread

Tsk, such an unfounded bias...

I've had a lot of success using sqlalchemy + Elixir together

 

[James Mills]

Tsk, such an unfounded bias...

To be honest. I have since now
tried both ZODB and Durus and
both seem really nice. I still do
think that ZODB could do with a cleanup
though.

I've had a lot of success using sqlalchemy + Elixir together

We are talking "Alternatives to RDBs" ok ?

cheers
James