blitzdb

Blitz is a document-oriented database for Python that is backend-agnostic. It comes with a flat-file database for JSON documents and provides MongoDB-like querying capabilities.

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Blitz is a document-oriented database for Python that is backend-agnostic. It comes with a flat-file database for JSON documents and provides MongoDB-like querying capabilities.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	1	3
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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ThePhysicist·Jan 28, 2017

I wrote a similar library -BlitzDB- a while ago: https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb It's a pure Python database engine with a MongoDB-like query engine and support for three different backends: File (native), SQL (via SQLAlchemy) and MongoDB. The library transparently translates a large number of MongoDB queries into SQL or its own native storage backend, and when using the SQL backend it can do things that MongoDB can't, like queries spanning multiple relationships. The latest version is not fully documented yet but I'm using it on several production projects myself. I'm looking for a maintainer and contributors btw, so if you're interested feel free to get in touch with me!

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