Python distributed datase

[Joshua Partogi]

Dear all,

Does anybody know any distributed and horizontal scalable database that is made with Python? All distributed database that I know is either made with Java(Cassandra, HTable) or Erlang (CouchDB, dynomite). Is it possible to make this kind of database with Python though? Is Google's BigTable made with Python?

Thanks heaps for your guidance

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[Sriram Panyam]

I have a strong feeling Google's BigTable has a lot of native C/C++ code in it.

But are you particular about a key-value store written completely in python or will python bindings do?

cheers
Sri

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[Alex North]

Google's BigTable is not made with Python. Although if running your application on Google App Engine is feasible then you can take advantage of it anyway.

You might try ZODB, the object database behind Zope, which is pure Python. Or one of the other distributed databases you mention with python bindings.

Cheers,
Alex

[Dylan Jay]

On 16/07/2009, at 10:40 AM, Alex North wrote:

> Google's BigTable is not made with Python. Although if running your
> application on Google App Engine is feasible then you can take
> advantage of it anyway.
>
> You might try ZODB, the object database behind Zope, which is pure
> Python. Or one of the other distributed databases you mention with
> python bindings.

I wasn't sure if it fits in the definition of distributed or
horizontal DB but ZODB is certainly a scalable production quality OODB
thats super easy to use in python.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-zodb/

Searching and table based queries are done in conjunction with ZCatalog

http://www.blazingthings.com/dev/zcatalog.html

[Vorn]

Here's an interesting distributed db written in c++, but with python bindings:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Python+Tutorial

There's likely to be a few similar projects around - just because something's not "written in python", doesn't mean you can't tap into it...

Vorn.