[ZODB-Dev] BTrees questions
Jim Fulton
jim@zope.com
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:31:13 -0500
Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:14:34PM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
> > Buckets are best for small amounts of data or when you want to
> > force data into one data structure or database record.
>
> IIRC from reading the source a while ago, buckets allow duplicate keys,
No, they don't.
> but
> Btrees don't.
>
> Is this a design decision? If yes, may I ask why?
>
> Sleepycat's DB also allows duplicate keys, but again I think the Python
> interfaces to it don't.
Yes it (for some definition of it) does, although you have to use the
low-level interface.
Jim
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