expiringsqlitedict 1.2.4

Persistent compressed expiring dict in Python, backed up by sqlite3 and pickle, with auto-cleaning and auto-vacuuming semantics

A lightweight wrapper around Python’s sqlite3 database with a simple, Pythonic dict-like interface. This fork is modified to implement a metatable and automatic expiring and vacuuming semantics, as well as some appropriate locking. This also compresses values automatically.

>>> from expiringsqlitedict import SqliteDict
>>> with SqliteDict('./my_db.sqlite', autocommit=True) as mydict:
>>>     mydict['some_key'] = any_picklable_object
>>>     print mydict['some_key']  # prints the new value
>>>     for key, value in mydict.iteritems():
>>>         print key, value
>>>     print len(mydict) # etc... all dict functions work

Pickle is used internally to (de)serialize the values. Keys are arbitrary strings, values arbitrary pickle-able objects. This must be used within a context manager.

Features

• Values can be any picklable objects (uses cPickle with the highest protocol).

• Support for access from multiple programs or threads, using a lockfile.

• Support for custom serialization or compression:

  # use JSON instead of pickle
  >>> import json
  >>> mydict = SqliteDict('./my_db.sqlite', encode=json.dumps, decode=json.loads)
  
  # apply zlib compression after pickling
  >>> import zlib, pickle, sqlite3
  >>> def my_encode(obj):
  ...     return sqlite3.Binary(zlib.compress(pickle.dumps(obj, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)))
  >>> def my_decode(obj):
  ...     return pickle.loads(zlib.decompress(bytes(obj)))
  >>> mydict = SqliteDict('./my_db.sqlite', encode=my_encode, decode=my_decode)

Installation

The module has no dependencies beyond Python itself.

Install or upgrade with:

pip install expiringsqlitedict

or from the source tar.gz:

python setup.py install

Documentation

Standard Python document strings are inside the module:

>>> import expiringsqlitedict
>>> help(expiringsqlitedict)

(but it’s just dict with a commit, really).

Beware: because of Python semantics, expiringsqlitedict cannot know when a mutable SqliteDict-backed entry was modified in RAM. For example, mydict.setdefault('new_key', []).append(1) will leave mydict['new_key'] equal to empty list, not [1]. You’ll need to explicitly assign the mutated object back to SqliteDict to achieve the same effect:

>>> val = mydict.get('new_key', [])
>>> val.append(1)  # sqlite DB not updated here!
>>> mydict['new_key'] = val  # now updated

For developers

Install:

# pip install nose
# pip install coverage

To perform all tests:

# make test-all

To perform all tests with coverage:

# make test-all-with-coverage

Comments, bug reports

expiringsqlitedict resides on github. You can file issues or pull requests there.

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expiringsqlitedict is open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license. Copyright (c) 2011-2018 Radim Řehůřek and contributors. The changes in this fork copyright (c) 2018 Absolute Performance, Inc.