Welcome to the ZODB Book

This book is a work in progress. These documents discuss the objectives:

• ZODB Book Outline
• Notes about intended audience

This is an open license project. Anyone can download and use the source. Make a clone of the repository today, using our Github repository.

For more information, visit the ZODB Documentation Blog.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Looking at the ZODB from 10,000 feet
  • ZODB and relational databases
  • Is the ZODB a NoSQL database?
  • ZODB != Zope
• Our First ZODB Application
  • Installing the ZODB from PyPI
  • The line drawing application
  • Saving drawings on the ZODB
  • Why not just use pickle?
  • Summary
• Working with the ZODB
  • TimeTrax: A command line time tracking app
  • Storing the time tracking data in the ZODB
  • Handling changes to mutable objects
  • Aborting transactions
  • The TimeTrax code
  • Summary
• Transactions
  • Getting the transaction package
  • Things you need to know about the transaction machinery
  • Using transactions
  • Managing more than one backend
  • The two-phase commit protocol in practice
  • More features and things to keep in mind about transactions
  • Writing our own data manager
  • Using transactions in web applications
• API Reference
  • Persistent Types
  • Storages
  • Connection Pool
  • Connections
  • Transactions
  • Errors
  • Interfaces

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

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