In article <4cfb802...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/05/10 10:43, Jorge Biquez wrote: > > I do not see a good reason for not using Sqlite3 BUT if for some reason > > would not be an option.... what plain schema of files would you use? > > Assuming you don't want SQL, you can use filesystem-based database. Most > people doesn't realize that a filesystem is essentially a database (of > files) and a file explorer is a (sort of) DBMS. It is relatively easy to > create a robust (as robust as the filesystem) and fast (as fast as the > filesystem) database system by using folders and files (and optionally > hard and symbolic links) to store data in hierarchical topology. Another possibility is one of the new breed of non-relational databases. We've been using MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/) and so far are happy with it. You can find a bunch of other alternatives in Wikipedia's NoSQL article. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list