database in python ?

Uwe Grauer news at grauer-online.de
Tue Apr 12 08:51:26 EDT 2005


Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote:
> 
>> MySQL is an excellent option is very well documented.  It is also a
>> defacto standard for OpenSource databases.
> 
> 
>     MySQL sucks for anything but very very basic stuff as it supports
> no  transactions, foreign keys, procedures, triggers, concurrency, etc.
>     Postgresql is a lot better, free, and the psycopg adapter for
> Postgres is  *very very* fast (a lot faster than the MySQL one) and it
> has a  dictfetchall() method which is worth its weight in donuts !

Yes, Postgresql is a lot better than MySQL but take a look at Firebird
to see how easy a full featured db-System could be.
Use kinterbasdb from Sourceforge to get Firebird into Python.

Uwe



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