1974
Comment: undo spam
|
2210
Revert spam.
|
Deletions are marked like this. | Additions are marked like this. |
Line 19: | Line 19: |
* [[https://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/dbapi20programming.pdf|DB-API how-to]] (PDF). |
|
Line 23: | Line 21: |
=== Talks === * [[https://www.egenix.com/library/presentations/EuroPython2008-Using-the-Python-Database-API/|Talk video and slides: Using the Python Database API]] * [[https://www.zope.de/tagung/Dresden_2010/Python-Datenbankprogrammierung_mal.pdf|Slides: Datenbankprogrammierung mit dem Python Database API]] (in German) |
Starting point for learning about using databases from Python.
Relational Databases
Relational databases are the most widely used type of database, storing information as tables containing a number of rows.
DatabaseInterfaces -- List of available Python databases interfaces. This also helps you choose the right database for your application.
The DB-API
The DB-API is a specification for a common interface to relational databases. The current version of the specification is version 2.0.
Talks
Future development
DbApi3 -- discussion of possible topics for a DB-API 3.
Historical development
Related tools
HigherLevelDatabaseProgramming -- wrappers that provide simpler or higher-level database interfaces, such as object/relational mappers and SQL generators.
SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix systems, supporting many different databases and languages, including PostgreSQL and Python.
Other resources
DatabaseBooks -- lists a few recommended titles for learning about databases. These books aren't Python-specific.
Programming:Databases category on dmoz.org
Non-relational Databases
PersistenceTools -- describes non-relational tools for storing data on disk.
Matisse Software provides Python bindings for their object database.