ZODB 6.0

ZODB, a Python object-oriented database

ZODB, a Python object-oriented database

ZODB provides an object-oriented database for Python that provides a high-degree of transparency. ZODB runs on Python 3.7 and above. It also runs on PyPy.

• no separate language for database operations

• very little impact on your code to make objects persistent

• no database mapper that partially hides the database.

  Using an object-relational mapping is not like using an object-oriented database.

• almost no seam between code and database.

ZODB is an ACID Transactional database.

To learn more, visit: https://zodb-docs.readthedocs.io

The github repository is at https://github.com/zopefoundation/zodb

If you’re interested in contributing to ZODB itself, see the developer notes.

Change History

6.0 (2024-03-20)

• Add support for Python 3.12.

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.

• Fix sorting issue in scripts/space.py.

• FileStorage: fix a rare data corruption when using restore after multiple undos. For details see #395.

• Fix exit code of repozo script in case of verification error. For details see #396.

5.8.1 (2023-07-18)

• Fix racetest problems. For details see #376.

• Fix --with-verify argument in script repozo --recover. For details see #381.

5.8.0 (2022-11-09)

• Add support for Python 3.11.

• Expand and refactor tests for race conditions.

5.7.0 (2022-03-17)

• Fix TypeError: can't concat str to bytes when running fsoids.py script with Python 3. See issue 350.

• Readd transaction size information to fsdump output; adapt fsstats to fsdump’s exchanged order for size and class information in data records; (fixes #354 <https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/354>_). Make ``fsdump` callable via Python’s -m command line option.

• Fix UnboundLocalError when running fsoids.py script. See issue 285.

• Rework fsrefs script to work significantly faster by optimizing how it does IO. See PR 340.

• Require Python 3 to build the documentation.

• Fix deprecation warnings occurring on Python 3.10.

• Add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10.

5.6.0 (2020-06-11)

• Fix race with invalidations when starting a new transaction. The bug affected Storage implementations that rely on mvccadapter, and could result in data corruption (oid loaded at wrong serial after a concurrent commit). See issue 290. As mentionned in pull request #307, interfaces are clarified about the fact that storage implementations must update at a precise moment the value that is returned by lastTransaction(): just after invalidate() or tpc_finish callback.

• Improve volatile attribute _v_ documentation.

• Make repozo’s recover mode atomic by recovering the backup in a temporary file which is then moved to the expected output file.

• Add a new option to repozo in recover mode which allows to verify backups integrity on the fly.

• Drop support for Python 3.4.

• Add support for Python 3.8.

• Fix DB.undo() and DB.undoMultiple() to close the storage they open behind the scenes when the transaction is committed or rolled back. See issue 268.

• Make TransactionMetaData in charge of (de)serializing extension data. A new extension_bytes attribute converts automatically from extension, or vice-versa. During storage iteration, extension_bytes holds bytes as they are stored (i.e. no deserialization happens). See issue 207.

• Make a connection’s savepoint storage implement its own (approximate) getSize method instead of relying on the original storage. Previously, this produced confusing DEBUG logging. See issue 282.

• Fix tests with transaction 3.0.

• Fix inconsistent resolution order with zope.interface v5.

• Remove ConnectionPool.map(). Instead, ConnectionPool is now iterable. See PR 280.

5.5.1 (2018-10-25)

• Fix KeyError on releasing resources of a Connection when closing the DB. This requires at least version 2.4 of the transaction package. See issue 208.

5.5.0 (2018-10-13)

• Add support for Python 3.7.

• Bump the dependency on zodbpickle to at least 1.0.1. This is required to avoid a memory leak on Python 2.7. See issue 203.

• Bump the dependency on persistent to at least 4.4.0.

• Make the internal support functions for dealing with OIDs (p64 and u64) somewhat faster and raise more informative exceptions on certain types of bad input. See issue 216.

• Remove support for python setup.py test. It hadn’t been working for some time. See issue #218.

• Make the tests run faster by avoiding calls to time.sleep().

5.4.0 (2018-03-26)

• ZODB now uses pickle protocol 3 for both Python 2 and Python 3.

  (Previously, protocol 2 was used for Python 2.)

  The zodbpickle package provides a zodbpickle.binary string type that should be used in Python 2 to cause binary strings to be saved in a pickle binary format, so they can be loaded correctly in Python 3. Pickle protocol 3 is needed for this to work correctly.

• Object identifiers in persistent references are saved as zodbpickle.binary strings in Python 2, so that they are loaded correctly in Python 3.

• If an object is missing from the index while packing a FileStorage, report its full oid.

• Storage imports are a bit faster.

• Storages can be important from non-seekable sources, like file-wrapped pipes.

5.3.0 (2017-08-30)

• Add support for Python 3.6.

• Drop support for Python 3.3.

• Ensure that the HistoricalStorageAdapter forwards the release method to its base instance. See issue 78.

• Use a higher pickle protocol (2) for serializing objects on Python 2; previously protocol 1 was used. This is much more efficient for new-style classes (all persistent objects are new-style), at the cost of being very slightly less efficient for old-style classes.

  Note

  On Python 2, this will now allow open file objects (but not open blobs or sockets) to be pickled (loading the object will result in a closed file); previously this would result in a TypeError. Doing so is not recommended as they cannot be loaded in Python 3.

  See issue 179.

5.2.4 (2017-05-17)

• DB.close now explicitly frees internal resources. This is helpful to avoid false positives in tests that check for leaks.

• Optimize getting the path to a blob file. See issue 161.

• All classes are new-style classes on Python 2 (they were already new-style on Python 3). This improves performance on PyPy. See issue 160.

5.2.3 (2017-04-11)

• Fix an import error. See issue 158.

5.2.2 (2017-04-11)

• Fixed: A blob misfeature set blob permissions so that blobs and blob directories were only readable by the database process owner, rather than honoring user-controlled permissions (e.g. umask). See issue 155.

5.2.1 (2017-04-08)

• Fixed: When opening FileStorages in read-only mode, non-existent files were silently created. Creating a read-only file-storage against a non-existent file errors.

5.2.0 (2017-02-09)

• Call new afterCompletion API on storages to allow them to free resources after transaction complete. See issue 147.

• Take advantage of the new transaction-manager explicit mode to avoid starting transactions unnecessarily when transactions end.

• Connection.new_oid delegates to its storage, not the DB. This is helpful for improving concurrency in MVCC storages like RelStorage. See issue 139.

• persistent is no longer required at setup time. See issue 119.

• Connection.close and Connection.open no longer race on self.transaction_manager, which could lead to AttributeError. This was a bug introduced in 5.0.1. See issue 142.

5.1.1 (2016-11-18)

• Fixed: ZODB.Connection.TransactionMetaData didn’t support custom data storage that some storages rely on.

5.1.0 (2016-11-17)

• ZODB now translates transaction meta data, user and description from text to bytes before passing them to storages, and converts them back to text when retrieving them from storages in the history, undoLog and undoInfo methods.

  The IDatabase interface was updated to reflect that history, undoLog and undoInfo are available on database objects. (They were always available, but not documented in the interface.)

5.0.1 (2016-11-17)

• Fix an AttributeError that DemoStorage could raise if it was asked to store a blob into a temporary changes before reading a blob. See issue 103.

• Call _p_resolveConflict() even if a conflicting change doesn’t change the state. This reverts to the behaviour of 3.10.3 and older.

• Closing a Connection now reverts its transaction_manager to None. This helps prevent errors and release resources when the transaction_manager was the (default) thread-local manager. See issue 114.

• Many docstrings have been improved.

5.0.0 (2016-09-06)

Major internal improvements and cleanups plus:

• Added a connection prefetch method that can be used to request that a storage prefetch data an application will need:

  conn.prefetch(obj, ...)

  Where arguments can be objects, object ids, or iterables of objects or object ids.

  Added optional prefetch methods to the storage APIs. If a storage doesn’t support prefetch, then the connection prefetch method is a noop.

• fstail: print the txn offset and header size, instead of only the data offset. fstail can now be used to truncate a DB at the right offset.

• Drop support for old commit protocol. All of the build-in storages implement the new protocol. This new protocol allows storages to provide better write performance by allowing multiple commits to execute in parallel.

5.0.0b1 (2016-08-04)

• fstail: print the txn offset and header size, instead of only the data offset. fstail can now be used to truncate a DB at the right offset.

Numerous internal cleanups, including:

• Changed the way the root object was created. Now the root object is created using a database connection, rather than by making low-level storage calls.

• Drop support for the old commit protocol.

• Internal FileStorage-undo fixes that should allow undo in some cases where it didn’t work before.

• Drop the version argument to some methods where it was the last argument and optional.

5.0.0a6 (2016-07-21)

• Added a connection prefetch method that can be used to request that a storage prefect data an application will need:

  conn.prefetch(obj, ...)

  Where arguments can be objects, object ids, or iterables of objects or object ids.

  Added optional prefetch methods to the storage APIs. If a storage doesn’t support prefetch, then the connection prefetch method is a noop.

5.0.0a5 (2016-07-06)

Drop support for old commit protocol. All of the build-in storages implement the new protocol. This new protocol allows storages to provide better write performance by allowing multiple commits to execute in parallel.

5.0.0a4 (2016-07-05)

See 4.4.2.

5.0.0a3 (2016-07-01)

See 4.4.1.

5.0.0a2 (2016-07-01)

See 4.4.0.

5.0.0a1 (2016-06-20)

Major internal implementation changes to the Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) implementation:

• For storages that implement IMVCCStorage (RelStorage), no longer implement MVCC in ZODB.

• For other storages, MVCC is implemented using an additional storage layer. This underlying layer works by calling loadBefore. The low-level storage load method isn’t used any more.

  This change allows server-based storages like ZEO and NEO to be implemented more simply and cleanly.

4.4.3 (2016-08-04)

• Internal FileStorage-undo fixes that should allow undo in some cases where it didn’t work before.

• fstail: print the txn offset and header size, instead of only the data offset. fstail can now be used to truncate a DB at the right offset.

4.4.2 (2016-07-08)

Better support of the new commit protocol. This fixes issues with blobs and undo. See pull requests #77, #80, #83

4.4.1 (2016-07-01)

Added IMultiCommitStorage to directly represent the changes in the 4.4.0 release and to make complient storages introspectable.

4.4.0 (2016-06-30)

This release begins evolution to a more effcient commit protocol that allows storage implementations, like NEO, to support multiple transactions committing at the same time, for greater write parallelism.

This release updates IStorage:

• The committed transaction’s ID is returned by tpc_finish, rather than being returned in response store and tpc_vote results.

• tpc_vote is now expected to return None or a list of object ids for objects for which conflicts were resolved.

This release works with storages that implemented the older version of the storage interface, but also supports storages that implement the updated interface.

4.3.1 (2016-06-06)

• Fixed: FileStorage loadBefore didn’t handle deleted/undone data correctly.

4.3.0 (2016-05-31)

• Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.2.

• Make the zodbpickle dependency required and not conditional. This fixes various packaging issues involving pip and its wheel cache. zodbpickle was only optional under Python 2.6 so this change only impacts users of that version. See https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/42.

• Add support for Python 3.5.

• Avoid failure during cleanup of nested databases that provide MVCC on storage level (Relstorage). https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/45

• Remove useless dependency to zdaemon in setup.py. Remove ZEO documentation. Both were leftovers from the time where ZEO was part of this repository.

• Fix possible data corruption after FileStorage is truncated to roll back a transaction. https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/52

• DemoStorage: add support for conflict resolution and fix history() https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/58

• Fixed a test that depended on implementation-specific behavior in tpc_finish

4.2.0 (2015-06-02)

• Declare conditional dependencies using PEP-426 environment markers (fixing interation between pip 7’s wheel cache and tox). See https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/36.

4.2.0b1 (2015-05-22)

• Log failed conflict resolution attempts at DEBUG level. See: https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/29.

• Fix command-line parsing of --verbose and --verify arguments. (The short versions, -v and -V, were parsed correctly.)

• Add support for PyPy.

• Fix the methods in ZODB.serialize that find object references under Python 2.7 (used in scripts like referrers, netspace, and fsrecover among others). This requires the addition of the zodbpickle dependency.

• FileStorage: fix an edge case when disk space runs out while packing, do not leave the .pack file around. That would block any write to the to-be-packed Data.fs, because the disk would stay at 0 bytes free. See https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/21.

4.1.0 (2015-01-11)

• Fix registration of custom logging level names (“BLATHER”, “TRACE”).

  We have been registering them in the wrong order since 2004. Before Python 3.4, the stdlib logging module masked the error by registering them in both directions.

• Add support for Python 3.4.

4.0.1 (2014-07-13)

• Fix POSKeyError during transaction.commit when after savepoint.rollback. See https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/16

• Ensure that the pickler used in PyPy always has a persistent_id attribute (inst_persistent_id is not present on the pure-Python pickler). (PR #17)

• Provide better error reporting when trying to load an object on a closed connection.

4.0.0 (2013-08-18)

Finally released.

4.0.0b3 (2013-06-11)

• Switch to using non-backward-compatible pickles (protocol 3, without storing bytes as strings) under Python 3. Updated the magic number for file-storage files under Python3 to indicate the incompatibility.

• Fixed: A UnicodeDecodeError could happen for non-ASCII OIDs when using bushy blob layout.

4.0.0b2 (2013-05-14)

• Extended the filename renormalizer used for blob doctests to support the filenames used by ZEO in non-shared mode.

• Added url parameter to setup() (PyPI says it is required).

4.0.0b1 (2013-05-10)

• Skipped non-unit tests in setup.py test. Use the buildout to run tests requiring “layer” support.

• Included the filename in the exception message to support debugging in case loadBlob does not find the file.

• Added support for Python 3.2 / 3.3.

Note

ZODB 4.0.x is supported on Python 3.x for new applications only. Due to changes in the standard library’s pickle support, the Python3 support does not provide forward- or backward-compatibility at the data level with Python2. A future version of ZODB may add such support.

Applications which need migrate data from Python2 to Python3 should plan to script this migration using separte databases, e.g. via a “dump-and-reload” approach, or by providing explicit fix-ups of the pickled values as transactions are copied between storages.

4.0.0a4 (2012-12-17)

• Enforced usage of bytes for _p_serial of persistent objects (fixes compatibility with recent persistent releases).

4.0.0a3 (2012-12-01)

• Fixed: An elaborate test for trvial logic corrupted module state in a

  way that made other tests fail spuriously.

4.0.0a2 (2012-11-13)

Bugs Fixed

• An unneeded left-over setting in setup.py caused installation with pip to fail.

4.0.0a1 (2012-11-07)

New Features

• The persistent and BTrees packages are now released as separate distributions, on which ZODB now depends.

• ZODB no longer depends on zope.event. It now uses ZODB.event, which uses zope.event if it is installed. You can override ZODB.event.notify to provide your own event handling, although zope.event is recommended.

• BTrees allowed object keys with insane comparison. (Comparison inherited from object, which compares based on in-process address.) Now BTrees raise TypeError if an attempt is made to save a key with comparison inherited from object. (This doesn’t apply to old-style class instances.)

Bugs Fixed

• Ensured that the export file and index file created by repozo share the same timestamp.

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/993350

• Pinned the transaction and manuel dependencies to Python 2.5- compatible versions when installing under Python 2.5.

Note

Please see https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/master/HISTORY.rst for older versions of ZODB.