Re: Dictionary or Database—Please advise

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy <jlconlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have lots of data that I currently store in dictionaries.  However,
> the memory requirements are becoming a problem.  I am considering
> using a database of some sorts instead, but I have never used them
> before.  Would a database be more memory efficient than a dictionary?
> I also need platform independence without having to install a database
> and Python interface on all the platforms I'll be using.  Is there
> something built-in to Python that will allow me to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>


Python has SQLite 3 built-in and there are wrappers for MySQL and PostgreSQL
on all major platforms. Any one of them will work- databases have the
advantage that they're stored on the disk so you don't have all of it in
memory simultaneously.


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