#pragma section-numbers off <<TableOfContents>> == General Information == URL:: http://buzhug.sourceforge.net licence:: BSD platforms:: all platforms supporting Python 2.3+ == Programming Model == buzhug is a fast, portable, pure-Python database engine, using a pythonic non-SQL syntax for all operations A database is an iterator, yielding objects with attributes matching the fields defined for the base . Requests can be expressed as list comprehensions or generator expressions, instead of SQL. The data is stored and accessed on disk (it is not an in-memory database). The implementation has been designed to make all operations, and especially selection, as fast as possible with an interpreted language. A limited benchmark using the same use cases as SQLite's author shows that buzhug is much faster than other pure-Python modules (KirbyBase, gadfly). SQLite, which is implemented in C, is faster, but only less than 3 times on the average. == Pros == * most operations are faster than on other pure-Python databases * concurrency control by versioning of records * simple system to link databases dynamically (a record of a base can be a field of another base) * complete documentation == Cons == * still beta : bug reports needed * no thread-safe feature : should be used behind an asynchronous server for multiple users