Zope Object Database: object database and persistence
Project description
The Zope Object Database provides an object-oriented database for Python that provides a high-degree of transparency. Applications can take advantage of object database features with few, if any, changes to application logic. ZODB includes features such as a plugable storage interface, rich transaction support, and undo.
ZODB
Introduction
The ZODB package provides a set of tools for using the Zope Object Database (ZODB).
Our primary development platforms are Linux and Mac OS X. The test suite should pass without error on these platforms and, hopefully, Windows, although it can take a long time on Windows – longer if you use ZoneAlarm.
Compatibility
ZODB 4.0 requires Python 2.6 or 2.7.
Prerequisites
You must have Python installed. If you’re using a system Python install, make sure development support is installed too.
You also need the transaction, BTrees, persistent, zc.lockfile, ZConfig, zdaemon, zope.event, zope.interface, zope.proxy and zope.testing packages. If you don’t have them and you can connect to the Python Package Index, then these will be installed for you if you don’t have them.
Installation
ZODB is released as a distutils package. The easiest ways to build and install it are to use easy_install, or zc.buildout.
To install by hand, first install the dependencies, ZConfig, zdaemon, zope.interface, zope.proxy and zope.testing. These can be found in the Python Package Index.
To run the tests, use the test setup command:
python setup.py test
It will download dependencies if needed. If this happens, ou may get an import error when the test command gets to looking for tests. Try running the test command a second time and you should see the tests run.
python setup.py test
To install, use the install command:
python setup.py install
Testing for Developers
The ZODB checkouts are buildouts. When working from a ZODB checkout, first run the bootstrap.py script to initialize the buildout:
% python bootstrap.py
and then use the buildout script to build ZODB and gather the dependencies:
% bin/buildout
This creates a test script:
% bin/test -v
This command will run all the tests, printing a single dot for each test. When it finishes, it will print a test summary. The exact number of tests can vary depending on platform and available third-party libraries.:
Ran 1182 tests in 241.269s OK
The test script has many more options. Use the -h or --help options to see a file list of options. The default test suite omits several tests that depend on third-party software or that take a long time to run. To run all the available tests use the --all option. Running all the tests takes much longer.:
Ran 1561 tests in 1461.557s OK
Maintenance scripts
Several scripts are provided with the ZODB and can help for analyzing, debugging, checking for consistency, summarizing content, reporting space used by objects, doing backups, artificial load testing, etc. Look at the ZODB/script directory for more informations.
License
ZODB is distributed under the Zope Public License, an OSI-approved open source license. Please see the LICENSE.txt file for terms and conditions.
More information
See http://zodb.org/
There is a Mailman mailing list in place to discuss all issues related to ZODB. You can send questions to
or subscribe at
and view its archives at
Note that Zope Corp mailing lists have a subscriber-only posting policy.
Bugs and Patches
Bug reports and patches should be added to the Launchpad:
Change History
4.0.0b2 (2013-05-14)
Extended the filename renormalizer used for blob doctests to support the filenames used by ZEO in non-shared mode.
Added url parameter to setup() (PyPI says it is required).
4.0.0b1 (2013-05-10)
Skipped non-unit tests in setup.py test. Use the buildout to run tests requiring “layer” support.
Included the filename in the exception message to support debugging in case loadBlob does not find the file.
Added support for Python 3.2 / 3.3.
4.0.0a4 (2012-12-17)
Enforced usage of bytes for _p_serial of persistent objects (fixes compatibility with recent persistent releases).
4.0.0a3 (2012-12-01)
- Fixed: An elaborate test for trvial logic corrupted module state in a
way that made other tests fail spuriously.
4.0.0a2 (2012-11-13)
Bugs Fixed
An unneeded left-over setting in setup.py caused installation with pip to fail.
4.0.0a1 (2012-11-07)
New Features
The persistent and BTrees packages are now released as separate distributions, on which ZODB now depends.
ZODB no longer depends on zope.event. It now uses ZODB.event, which uses zope.event if it is installed. You can override ZODB.event.notify to provide your own event handling, although zope.event is recommended.
BTrees allowed object keys with insane comparison. (Comparison inherited from object, which compares based on in-process address.) Now BTrees raise TypeError if an attempt is made to save a key with comparison inherited from object. (This doesn’t apply to old-style class instances.)
Bugs Fixed
Ensured that the export file and index file created by repozo share the same timestamp.
Pinned the transaction and manuel dependencies to Python 2.5- compatible versions when installing under Python 2.5.
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