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<topic-guide>
 
  <section id="modules">
    <title>Database Modules</title>
    <description>The database modules listed on this page have been written to conform to the
DB-SIG's proposed API. 
    </description>
  
    <link href="ftp://people.linuxkorea.co.kr/pub/DB2/">
      <title>DB/2</title>
      <description>An interface to IBM DB2.
Maintained by Man-Yong (Bryan) Lee.
</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.chordate.com/gadfly.html">
      <title>Gadfly</title>
      <description>Gadfly is a simple relational database system implemented in Python based on the SQL Structured Query Language, and includes a DB-API compliant interface.
Maintained by Aaron Watters.
</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://starship.python.net/crew/sturner/informixdb.html">
      <title>Informix</title>
      <description>Currently maintained by Stephen J. Turner.
</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://thor.prohosting.com/~alexan/pub/Kinfxdb/Kinfxdb-0.2.tar.gz">
      <title>Informix (Kinfxdb)</title>
      <description>A completely new informix module, called Kinfxdb.  Maintained by Alexander Kuznetsov.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net">
      <title>Interbase (Kinterbasdb)</title>
      <description>An interface for Interbase 4.0 and 5.0. Maintained by 
	    Alexander Kuznetsov.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~hme/software/">
      <title>Ingres</title>
      <description>For Ingres 6.4 and OpenIngres, written by Holger Meyer.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.ziclix.com/zxjdbc/">
      <title>JDBC (zxJDBC)</title>
      <description>Provides a DB-API 2.0 interface on top of JDBC and JPython.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://dustman.net/andy/python/MySQLdb/">
      <title>MySQL</title>
      <description>     A MySQL module that is thread-safe and aims for compatibility with the 2.0 DB-API.
     It requires a newer version of MySQL, version 3.22.19 or higher.
</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/mxODBC.html">
      <title>mxODBC</title>
      <description>The mxODBC package provides a nearly 100% Python DB API compliant interface to
     databases that are accessible via the ODBC API.  Many databases include
     ODBC libraries, so this may be the only module you need; it supports Solid,
     Adabas, Sybase, Oracle, and even MySQL.
     Maintained by <a href="http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/">M.-A. Lemburg</a>.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/windows/win32/odbc.html">
      <title>ODBC interface</title>
      <description>This module is currently available in the PythonWin
	  distribution. It's public domain code, but
	  unfortunately has no designated support person(s).  The best
	  option for support is to ask questions on the <a
 	  href="news:comp.lang.python">comp.lang.python</a> newsgroup, where
	  other PythonWin users can 
	  answer them.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.druid.net/pygresql/">
      <title>PyGresQL</title>
      <description>    The best-known Python interface to the <a
    href="http://www.postgresql.org/index.html">PostgresSQL</a> database.
    DB-API 2.0 compliant.
</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://popy.sourceforge.net">
      <title>PoPy (PostgreSQL)</title>
      <description>     An interface to PostgreSQL that's DB-API 2.0 compliant and 
     supports thread level 2. 
</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://initd.org/Software/psycopg">
      <title>psycopg (PostgreSQL)</title>
      <description>     A DB-API 2.0 compliant driver designed to support
     heavily multithreaded applications with
     many cursors.  Cursors can be very short-lived since the driver has an
     intelligent system for reusing db connections at libpq level.
     Supports thread level 2. 
</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/">
      <title>Sybase</title>
      <description>        Supports "almost all" of the DB-API 2.0.  Maintained by Dave Cole.
</description>
    </link>

  </section>

  <section id="persist-dict">
    <title>Persistent Dictionaries</title>
    <description>The modules listed on this page are simply the disk-based equivalent of
dictionaries, but many of them have additional features.
    </description>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-anydbm.html">
       <title>anydbm</title>
       <description>Included with the standard Python distribution.  
The <code>anydbm</code> module is a generic interface to all the
DBM-like modules listed in the next two lines, selecting from 
whichever modules are installed.</description>
    </link>
 
    <link href="http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-dbm.html">
       <title>dbm</title>
       <description>XXX Included with the standard Python distribution.  Each 
of these modules is an interface to a specific library.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-gdbm.html">
       <title>gdbm</title>
       <description>XXX</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-dbhash.html">
       <title>dbhash</title>
       <description>XXX</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-bsddb.html">
       <title>bsddb</title>
       <description>Included with the standard Python distribution.  In
addition to dictionary-like behaviour, this module also supports
B-trees, which allows traversing the keys in sorted order.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.equi4.com/metakit/">
       <title>MetaKit</title>
       <description>MetaKit is a C++ library  for storage, transport, and manipulation of
structured objects and collections.  A Python
interface is available.</description>
    </link>

  </section>

  <section id="persist-obj">
    <title>Persistent Objects</title>
    <description>
    </description>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-pickle.html">
      <title>pickle.py</title>
      <description>Included with the standard Python distribution.  The 
<code>pickle</code> module can convert Python objects to and from
a string representation.  </description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-shelve.html">
      <title>shelve.py</title>
      <description>Included with the standard Python distribution.
Built on top of the <code>pickle</code> and <code>anydbm</code>
modules, the <code>shelve</code> module behaves like a persistent
dictionary whose values can be arbitrary Python objects.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://starship.python.net/crew/jmenzel/">
      <title>PyVersant</title>
      <description>A wrapper for the <a href="http://www.versant.com">Versant
commercial OODBMS</a>. XXX link to my hacked version</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.amk.ca/zodb/">
      <title>ZODB</title>
      <description>The Zope Object Database is a persistent-object
                      system that provides transparent transactional object
                      persistence to Python applications.</description>
    </link>

  </section>

  <section id="docs">
    <title>Database Documentation</title>
    <description>This page lists documentation that will help you learn about the
software packages described in this Topic Guide.</description>
   
    <link href="http://www.python.org/windows/win32/odbc.html">
      <title>ODBC Documentation</title>
      <description>The documentation for the PythonWin ODBC module.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/windows/OdbcHints.html">
      <title>ODBC Hints</title>
      <description>Helpful notes on using ODBC under PythonWin.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/DB-API.html">
      <title>The Python Database API</title>
      <description>In <cite>Linux Journal #49</cite>.</description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/shprentz.html">
      <title>"Persistent Storage of Python Objects in Relational Databases"</title>
      <description>A paper by Joel Shprentz presented at the Sixth Python Conference.</description>
    </link>

  </section>

  <section id="other-db">
    <title>Other Database Modules</title>
    <description>
Here are some other interfaces to various relational databases,
which don't follow the DB-API interface specification (usually because
they predate it).
    </description>
    
    <link href="http://www.matisse.com/python.html">
      <title>Matisse</title>
      <description>
     Matisse Software provides Python bindings for their object database.
      </description>
    </link>

    <link href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/contrib/Database/">
      <title>mSQL</title>
      <description>An interface to the mSQL database.  Currently without a maintainer. (This points to the ftp directory.
     The latest version when the link was installed was mSQL.tar.gz.)
      </description>
    </link>
  </section>

</topic-guide>