Database vs Data Structure?

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Apr 18, 12:23 am, I V <ivle... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:30:33 -0700, erikcw wrote:
> > use some sort of data-structure (maybe
> > nested dictionaries or a custom class) and store the pickled
> > data-structure in a single row in the database (then unpickle the data
> > and query in memory).
>
> Why would you want to do this? I don't see what you would hope to gain by
> doing this, over just using a database.

Are databases truly another language from Python, fundamentally?