embedded db in python app?

[Alessio Pace]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Alessio Pace <puccio_13 at yahoo.it> writes:
>> Hi, I wrote a python application which needs to persistently store 2
>> *big* hash maps at the end of its execution and retrieve them when it
>> starts again. Up to now I just used pickle to serialize 2 objects that
>> "encapsulate" those hash maps (and nothing else). I wonder if using an
>> embedded db (but which one??) to store those two hash maps would be
>> faster both in storing and in retrieval.
> 
> What's wrong with using one of the built-in dbm classes?

mmm, never heard about those, what do you mean? :-? Do you mean APIs to
access an external DB or what?


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Alessio Pace