[pybsddb] Bulk Data load into a DB

[Jon Kerr Nilsen]

On 29. mars 2010, at 22.10, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:

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> On 03/29/2010 09:25 PM, Jon Kerr Nilsen wrote:
>> We're working on this storage system Chelonia[1] and we use pybsddb
>> for the replicated meta-database (and hey, it works :)). Anyway, we
>> access the database over WAN, which is quite high in latency, so a
>> bulk interface would be really cool. We practically demand it :)
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> But the bulk interface you need is the application interface, not in  
> the
> BDB interface. Unless you allow users accessing BDB directly, that I
> hope is not the case :-).
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No, we're not *that* crazy :-) Forgot to say that our application  
interface has bulk support. I just meant that we have to do bulk  
transfers all the time so the application code would be better if we  
could just stuff in key-value lists into bdb in one go.

Cheers,
Jon