PyVidarDB is a simple, fast, and persistent key-value store that can store terabytes of data. It is the Python binding for VidarDB, which is a lineage of LevelDB and RocksDB.

We did experiment with PyVidarDB and py-lmdb to compare the performance of:

• Putting data (inserting key-value pairs from 1 million to 200 million)
• Getting data (getting 5000 random key-value pairs after putting data)
• Deleting data (deleting 5000 random key-value pairs)
• Database size (the size of the database of putting data)

The result turns out: For "big" data scale (in our experiment, the data size larger than 25% of the RAM), PyVidarDB is significantly faster than py-lmdb (putting and getting data); it is always faster than py-lmdb at deleting data; the database size is always smaller than py-lmdb. In conclusion, PyVidarDB has an obviously better performance than py-lmdb.

Please see experiment for more information.

PyVidarDB guarantees to support Python >= 3.5. There is no need to have VidarDB installed in advance, PyVidarDB will install it automatically for you.

For Linux users (Ubuntu as an example):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git python3-pip build-essential cmake

For MacOS users (Please install Homebrew at first):

sudo brew install git python3 cmake

For Windows users:

The compiler should support C++11 (at least Visual Studio 2015 update 3).

From PyPI:

pip3 install PyVidarDB

From Github:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/vidardb/PyVidarDB.git
pip3 install ./PyVidarDB

Here is the basic usage for PyVidarDB:

import pyvidardb

db = pyvidardb.DB()

# Open the database, will create one if not exist.
db.open("./hello_world")

# Put a pair of 'key1' and 'value1' into the database.
db.put(b"key1", b"value1")

# Get the value(s) of the provided key, will return None
# if there is no such key in the database.
value = db.get(b"key1")
assert value == [b"value1"]

# 'key2' does not exist in the database. So we will get None here.
value = db.get(b"key2")
assert value is None

# Remove 'key1' from the database.
db.delete(b"key1")

# Put a pair of 'key2' and multiple values into the database.
db.put(b"key2", [b"value1", b"value2", b"value3"])

# Get the value(s) of the provided key.
value = db.get(b"key2")
assert value == [b"value1", b"value2", b"value3"]

# Remove 'key2' from the database.
db.delete(b"key2")

# Close the database.
db.close()

More examples can be found at here: https://github.com/vidardb/PyVidarDB/tree/master/examples

See our wiki page for more information.