aerospike 1.0.53

Aerospike Client Library for Python

Dependencies

The Python Client for Aerospike works on Python 2.6, 2.7 running on 64-bit OS X 10.9+ and Linux.

The client depends on:

• Python devel Package

• The Aerospike C client

RedHat 6+ and CentOS 6+

The following are dependencies for:

• RedHat Enterprise (RHEL) 6 or newer

• CentOS 6 or newer

• and related distributions using yum package manager.

sudo yum install python-devel
sudo yum install openssl-devel

Debian 6+ and Ubuntu 12.04+

The following are dependencies for:

• Debian 6 or newer

• Ubuntu 12.04 or newer

• and related distributions using apt-get package manager.

sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

OS X

By default OS X will be missing command line tools. On Mavericks (OS X 10.9) and higher those can be installed without Xcode.

xcode-select --install # install the command line tools, if missing

The dependencies can be installed through the OS X package manager Homebrew.

brew install openssl

Install

Aerospike Python Client can be installed using pip:

pip install aerospike

# with pip versions >= 6.0 you can

pip install --no-cache-dir aerospike

Build

Instructions for building Aerospike Python Client, please refer to the BUILD.md file for details.

Documentation

Documentation is hosted at pythonhosted.org/aerospike and at aerospike.com/apidocs/python <http://www.aerospike.com/apidocs/python/>.

Examples

Example applications are provided in the examples directory of the GitHub repository

For examples, to run the kvs.py:

python examples/client/kvs.py

Becnhmarks

To run the benchmarks the python modules ‘guppy’ and ‘tabulate’ need to be installed. Benchmark applications are provided in the benchmarks directory of the GitHub repository

License

The Aerospike Python Client is made availabled under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2, as stated in the file LICENSE.

Individual files may be made available under their own specific license, all compatible with Apache License, Version 2. Please see individual files for details.