Common object storage frontend that supports dictionary-style access, object serialization and compression, and multiple storage and caching backends.

Currently supported storage backends are:

• Amazon S3 Web Service
• Apache Cassandra
• Berkeley Source Database
• DBM
• Durus
• FTP
• Filesystem
• Firebird
• git
• HDF5
• LevelDB
• Memory
• Mercurial
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• SQLite
• Subversion
• Zope Object Database (ZODB)

Currently supported caching backends are:

• Filesystem
• Firebird
• Memory
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• SQLite
• memcache

The simplest shove use case is:

>>> from shove import Shove >>> store = Shove()

which creates an in-memory store and cache.

The use of other backends for storage and caching involves passing an module URI or existing store or cache instance to shove following the form:

>>> from shove import Shove >>> <storename> = Shove(<store_uri>, <cache_uri>)

Each module-specific URI form is documented in its module. The URI form follows the URI form used by SQLAlchemy:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/core/engines.html

shove fully implements the Python dictionary/mapping API:

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html