which db should I use?
Magnus Lie Hetland
mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no
Tue May 14 06:21:37 EDT 2002
>I have a project that I want to do with python. It involves a database
>table with some 100,000 rows, total size about 400MB and climbing. I
>will be adding about 700 rows a day, and occasionally want to do a
>query, but only occasionally. (I am putting all the posts from an active
>newsgroup in to a db for data gathering, and to learn python and sql
>stuff) But I don't know which db module would work better for me?I am
>running this on a linux box, and cross platform is not a big deal, I am
>looking at both postgres and mysql. Since I have 0 experience with
>either one especially in context of interfacing with python. I'd like
>suggestions please.
I would suggest checking out Metakit
(http://www.equi4.com/metakit/python.html), a very versatile and
easy-to-use database package with bindings for Python. (There is an
SQL front-end for it too, but you probably won't need that.)
>thanks all
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