[Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:56 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:41:32PM -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> -> I think this should be deferred to Py3.1.
> ->
> -> This decision was not widely discussed and
> -> I think it likely that some users will
> -> be surprised and dismayed.  The release
> -> candidate seems to be the wrong time to
> -> yank this out (in part because of the surprise
> -> factor) and in part because I think the change
> -> silently affects shelve performance so that the
> -> impact may be significantly negative but not
> -> readily apparent.
>
> Related but tangential question that we were discussing on the pygr[0]
> mailing list -- what is the "official" word on a scalable object store
> in Python?  We've been using bsddb, but is there an alternative?  And
> what if bsddb is removed?
>

Beyond shelve there are no official plans to add a specific object store.

-Brett