tinydb: A Python repository from f3aristheheartoflov3

TinyDB is a tiny, document oriented database optimized for your happiness :) It's written in pure Python and has no external requirements. The target are small apps that would be blown away by a SQL-DB or an external database server.

TinyDB is:

tiny: The current source code has 1800 lines of code (with about 40% documentation) and 1100 lines tests. For comparison: Buzhug has about 2500 lines of code (w/o tests), CodernityDB has about 7000 lines of code (w/o tests).
document oriented: Like MongoDB, you can store any document (represented as dict) in TinyDB.
optimized for your happiness: TinyDB is designed to be simple and fun to use by providing a simple and clean API.
written in pure Python: TinyDB neither needs an external server (as e.g. PyMongo) nor any dependencies from PyPI.
works on Python 2.6 – 3.4 and PyPy: TinyDB works on all modern versions of Python and PyPy.
powerfully extensible: You can easily extend TinyDB by writing new storages or modify the behaviour of storages with Middlewares. This includes custom serialization of objects, which the used storage can't handle (e.g. for storing datetime objects in a JSON file).
100% test coverage: No explanation needed.

Example Code

>>> from tinydb import TinyDB, where
>>> db = TinyDB('/path/to/db.json')
>>> db.insert({'int': 1, 'char': 'a'})
>>> db.insert({'int': 1, 'char': 'b'})

Query Language

>>> # Search for a field value
>>> db.search(where('int') == 1)
[{'int': 1, 'char': 'a'}, {'int': 1, 'char': 'b'}]

>>> # Combine two queries with logical and
>>> db.search((where('int') == 1) & (where('char') == 'b'))
[{'int': 1, 'char': 'b'}]

>>> # Combine two queries with logical or
>>> db.search((where('char') == 'a') | (where('char') == 'b'))
[{'int': 1, 'char': 'a'}, {'int': 1, 'char': 'b'}]

>>> # More possible comparisons:  !=  <  >  <=  >=
>>> # More possible checks: where(...).matches(regex), where(...).test(your_test_func)

Tables

>>> table = db.table('name')
>>> table.insert({'value': True})
>>> table.all()
[{'value': True}]

Using Middlewares

>>> from tinydb.storages import JSONStorage
>>> from tinydb.middlewares import CachingMiddleware
>>> db = TinyDB('/path/to/db.json', storage=CachingMiddleware(JSONStorage))

Documentation

The documentation for TinyDB is hosted at Read the Docs: https://tinydb.readthedocs.org/

Supported Python Versions

TinyDB has been tested with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and PyPy.

Extensions

Name: tinyrecord

Repo: https://github.com/eugene-eeo/tinyrecord

Status: stable

Description: Tinyrecord is a library which implements experimental atomic transaction support for the TinyDB NoSQL database. It uses a record-first then execute architecture which allows us to minimize the time that we are within a thread lock.

Name: tinyindex

Repo: https://github.com/eugene-eeo/tinyindex

Status: experimental

Description: Document indexing for TinyDB. Basically ensures deterministic (as long as there aren't any changes to the table) yielding of documents.

Contributing

Whether reporting bugs, discussing improvements and new ideas or writing extensions: Contributions to TinyDB are welcome! Here's how to get started:

Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug
Fork the repository on Github, create a new branch off the master branch and start making your changes (known as GitHub Flow)
Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected
Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published ☺

Changelog

v2.4 (2015-08-14)

Allow custom parameters for custom test functions (see issue #63 and pull request #64).

v2.3.2 (2015-05-20)

Fix a forgotten debug output in the SerializationMiddleware (see issue #55).
Fix an "ignored exception" warning when using the CachingMiddleware (see pull request #54)
Fix a problem with symlinks when checking out TinyDB on OSX Yosemite (see issue #52).

v2.3.1 (2015-04-30)

Hopefully fix a problem with using TinyDB as a dependency in a setup.py script (see issue #51).

v2.3.0 (2015-04-08)

Added support for custom serialization. That way, you can teach TinyDB to store datetime objects in a JSON file :) (see issue #48 and pull request #50)
Fixed a performance regression when searching became slower with every search (see issue #49)
Internal code has been cleaned up

v2.2.2 (2015-02-12)

Fixed a data loss when using CachingMiddleware together with JSONStorage (see issue #47)

v2.2.1 (2015-01-09)

Fixed handling of IDs with the JSON backend that converted integers to strings (see issue #45)

v2.2.0 (2014-11-10)

Extended any and all queries to take lists as conditions (see pull request #38)
Fixed an decode error when installing TinyDB in a non-UTF-8 environment (see pull request #37)
Fixed some issues with CachingMiddleware in combination with JSONStorage (see pull request #39)

v2.1.0 (2014-10-14)

Added where(...).contains(regex) (see issue #32)
Fixed a bug that corrupted data after reopening a database (see issue #34)

v2.0.1 (2014-09-22)

Fixed handling of Unicode data in Python 2 (see issue #28).

v2.0.0 (2014-09-05)

Upgrade Notes

Warning: TinyDB changed the way data is stored. You may need to migrate your databases to the new scheme. Check out the Upgrade Notes for details.

The syntax query in db has been removed, use db.contains instead.
The ConcurrencyMiddleware has been removed due to a insecure implementation (see Issue #18). Consider tinyrecord instead.
Better support for working with Element IDs.
Added support for nested comparisons.
Added all and any comparisons on lists.
Added optional smart query caching.
The query cache is now a fixed size LRU cache.

v1.4.0 (2014-07-22)

Added insert_multiple function (see issue #8).

v1.3.0 (2014-07-02)

Fixed bug #7: IDs not unique.
Extended the API: db.count(where(...)) and db.contains(where(...)).
The syntax query in db is now deprecated and replaced by db.contains.

v1.2.0 (2014-06-19)

Added update method (see issue #6).

v1.1.1 (2014-06-14)

Merged PR #5: Fix minor documentation typos and style issues.

v1.1.0 (2014-05-06)

Improved the docs and fixed some typos.
Refactored some internal code.
Fixed a bug with multiple TinyDB? instances.

v1.0.1 (2014-04-26)

Fixed a bug in JSONStorage that broke the database when removing entries.

v1.0.0 (2013-07-20)

First official release – consider TinyDB stable now.

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