shove 0.2.2

Common object storage frontend

Common object storage frontend that supports dictionary-style access, object serialization and compression, and multiple storage and caching backends.

Currently supported storage backends are:

• Amazon S3 Web Service

• Berkeley Source Database

• Filesystem

• Firebird

• FTP

• DBM

• Durus

• Memory

• Microsoft SQL Server

• MySQL

• Oracle

• PostgreSQL

• SQLite

• Subversion

• Zope Object Database (ZODB)

Currently supported caching backends are:

• Filesystem

• Firebird

• memcached

• Memory

• Microsoft SQL Server

• MySQL

• Oracle

• PostgreSQL

• SQLite

The simplest shove use case is:

from shove import Shove

store = Shove()

which creates an in-memory store and cache.

To use another backend for storage or caching, a configuration URI or an existing store or cache instance is passed to shove using the form:

from shove import Shove

<storename> = Shove(<store_uri>, <cache_uri>)

The URI format for a backend is documented in its module. The URI form is the same as SQLAlchemy’s:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/04/dbengine.html#dbengine_establishing

shove implements the Python dictionary/mapping API:

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html