.. sophy documentation master file, created by sphinx-quickstart on Sun Apr 22 20:55:15 2018. You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least contain the root `toctree` directive. .. image:: http://media.charlesleifer.com/blog/photos/sophia-logo.png :target: http://sophia.systems :alt: sophia database sophy ===== Python binding for `sophia `_ embedded database, v2.2. * Written in Cython for speed and low-overhead * Clean, memorable APIs * Comprehensive support for Sophia's features * Supports Python 2 and 3. * No 3rd-party dependencies besides Cython (for building). About Sophia: * Ordered key/value store * Keys and values can be composed of multiple fieldsdata-types * ACID transactions * MVCC, optimistic, non-blocking concurrency with multiple readers and writers. * Multiple databases per environment * Multiple- and single-statement transactions across databases * Prefix searches * Automatic garbage collection and key expiration * Hot backup * Compression * Multi-threaded compaction * ``mmap`` support, direct I/O support * APIs for variety of statistics on storage engine internals * BSD licensed Some ideas of where Sophia might be a good fit: * Running on application servers, low-latency / high-throughput * Time-series * Analytics / Events / Logging * Full-text search * Secondary-index for external data-store Limitations: * Not tested on Windoze. If you encounter any bugs in the library, please `open an issue `_, including a description of the bug and any related traceback. .. image:: http://media.charlesleifer.com/blog/photos/sophy-logo.png :alt: Sophy logo .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :caption: Contents: :glob: installation quickstart api Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`