embedded db in python app?

[Paul Rubin]

Alessio Pace <puccio_13 at yahoo.it> writes:
> Hi, I wrote a python application which needs to persistently store 2 *big*
> hash maps at the end of its execution and retrieve them when it starts
> again. Up to now I just used pickle to serialize 2 objects that
> "encapsulate" those hash maps (and nothing else). I wonder if using an
> embedded db (but which one??) to store those two hash maps would be faster
> both in storing and in retrieval. 

What's wrong with using one of the built-in dbm classes?