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Alternatives to traditional RDBMS

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Wed Sep 10 10:22:33 EDT 2008 
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

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