Welcome to tokyocabinet-python’s documentation!

Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized in hash table, B+ tree, or fixed-length array. Tokyo Cabinet is developed as the successor of GDBM and QDBM on the following purposes. They are achieved and Tokyo Cabinet replaces conventional DBM products.

• improves space efficiency: smaller size of database file.
• improves time efficiency: faster processing speed.
• improves parallelism: higher performance in multi-thread environment.
• improves usability: simplified API.
• improves robustness: database file is not corrupted even under catastrophic situation.
• supports 64-bit architecture: enormous memory space and database file are available.

Todo

Rewrite the previous section (copy/pasted from http://1978th.net/tokyocabinet/).

See also

Fundamental Specifications of Tokyo Cabinet Version 1 for more information about Tokyo Cabinet.

Source is hosted by the mood project at Google code, check it out with: svn checkout http://mood.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tokyocabinet tokyocabinet

Content

• tokyocabinet — Python Tokyo Cabinet interface.
  • Objects
    • Hash Database — HDB
    • On-memory Hash Database — MDB
    • B+ Tree Database — BDB
    • On-memory Tree Database — NDB
    • Fixed-length Database — FDB
    • Table Database — TDB
• tcdbm — dbm-compatible interface to tokyocabinet.
• Changes
  • Todo
  • Release 0.5.0
  • Release 0.4.0
  • Release 0.3.0
  • Release 0.2.1
  • Release 0.2.0
  • Release 0.1.2
  • Release 0.1.0

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page