asynctnt 1.2.3

A fast Tarantool Database connector for Python/asyncio.

asynctnt

asynctnt is a high-performance Tarantool database connector library for Python/asyncio. It is highly inspired by asyncpg module.

asynctnt requires Python 3.5 or later and is supported for Tarantool versions 1.6+.

Installation

Use pip to install:

$ pip install asynctnt

Documentation

Documentation is available here.

Key features

• Support for all of the basic requests that Tarantool supports. This includes: insert, select, update, upsert, eval, sql (for Tarantool 2.x), call and call16. Note: For the difference between call16 and call please refer to Tarantool documentation.
• Schema fetching on connection establishment, so you can use spaces and indexes names rather than their ids.
• Schema auto refetching. If schema in Tarantool is changed, asynctnt refetches it.
• Auto reconnect. If connection is lost for some reason - asynctnt will start automatic reconnection procedure (with authorization and schema fetching, of course).
• Ability to use dicts for tuples with field names as keys in DML requests (select, insert, replace, delete, update, upsert). This is possible only if space.format is specified in Tarantool. Field names can also be used in update operations instead of field numbers. Moreover, tuples are decoded into the special structures that can act either as tuples or by dicts with the appropriate API.
• All requests support specification of timeout value, so if request is executed for too long, asyncio.TimeoutError is raised. It drastically simplifies your code, as you don't need to use asyncio.wait_for(...) stuff anymore.

Basic Usage

Tarantool config:

box.cfg {
    listen = '127.0.0.1:3301'
}

box.once('v1', function()
    box.schema.user.grant('guest', 'read,write,execute', 'universe')

    local s = box.schema.create_space('tester')
    s:create_index('primary')
    s:format({
        { name = 'id', type = 'unsigned' },
        { name = 'name', type = 'string' },
    })
end)

Python code:

import asyncio
import asynctnt


async def main():
    conn = asynctnt.Connection(host='127.0.0.1', port=3301)
    await conn.connect()

    for i in range(1, 11):
        await conn.insert('tester', [i, 'hello{}'.format(i)])

    data = await conn.select('tester', [])
    first_tuple = data[0]
    print('tuple:', first_tuple)
    print(f'tuple[0]: {first_tuple[0]}; tuple["id"]: {first_tuple["id"]}')
    print(f'tuple[1]: {first_tuple[1]}; tuple["name"]: {first_tuple["name"]}')

    await conn.disconnect()

asyncio.run(main())

Stdout:

(note that you can simultaneously access fields either by indices or by their names)

tuple: <TarantoolTuple id=1 name='hello1'>
tuple[0]: 1; tuple["id"]: 1
tuple[1]: hello1; tuple["name"]: hello1

SQL

Tarantool 2 brings out an SQL interface to the database. You can easily use SQL through asynctnt

box.cfg {
    listen = '127.0.0.1:3301'
}

box.once('v1', function()
    box.schema.user.grant('guest', 'read,write,execute', 'universe')

    box.execute([[
        create table users (
            id int primary key,
            name text
        )
    ]])
end)

import asyncio
import asynctnt


async def main():
    conn = asynctnt.Connection(host='127.0.0.1', port=3301)
    await conn.connect()

    await conn.sql("insert into users (id, name) values (1, 'James Bond')")
    await conn.sql("insert into users (id, name) values (2, 'Ethan Hunt')")
    data = await conn.sql('select * from users')

    for row in data:
        print(row)

    await conn.disconnect()

asyncio.run(main())

Stdout:

<TarantoolTuple ID=1 NAME='James Bond'>
<TarantoolTuple ID=2 NAME='Ethan Hunt'>

Performance

On all of the benchmarks below wal_mode = none

Sequential

RPS on running 40k requests (no uvloop):

Request	aiotarantool	asynctnt
ping	5010.60	9037.07
call	4575.98	9113.32
eval	4096.32	8921.95
select	4063.15	9681.12
insert	4038.04	9332.21
update	3945.12	10532.75

RPS on running 40k requests (with uvloop):

Request	aiotarantool	asynctnt
ping	7204.31	20372.59
call	6723.58	17279.21
eval	7001.27	16642.67
select	7028.03	17730.24
insert	7054.06	17384.26
update	6618.01	15990.12

Parallel coroutines

RPS on running 200k requests in 300 parallel coroutines (no uvloop):

Request	aiotarantool	asynctnt
ping	32946.25	44090.53
call	29005.93	41129.16
eval	28792.84	44097.02
select	26929.76	35853.33
insert	27142.52	31329.85
update	25330.98	36281.59

Let's enable uvloop. This is where asynctnt shines. RPS on running 200k requests in 300 parallel coroutines (with uvloop):

Request	aiotarantool	asynctnt
ping	38962.01	134043.41
call	32799.71	99866.28
eval	27608.09	91056.69
select	27436.98	108940.41
insert	33247.57	102971.13
update	28544.68	98643.46

License

asynctnt is developed and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

References

1. Tarantool - in-memory database and application server.
2. aiotarantool - alternative Python/asyncio connector
3. asynctnt-queue - bindings on top of asynctnt for tarantool-queue