TinyMP is a storage backend for TinyDB https://github.com/msiemens/tinydb which is based around the MessagePack compressed JSON format (https://msgpack.org/index.html)

Syntax :

TinyMP extends the syntax of the tinydb class using one of the optional kwargs as follows:

Values for **kwargs

Value	Effect
storage=MsgPackStorage	Default option, will use the MsgPack library
storage=MsgPackStorage,Lib='msgpack'	Will use the MsgPack library
storage=MsgPackStorage,Lib='umsgpack'	Will use the U-MsgPack Library

Example Usage:

from tinydb import TinyDB, Query
from tinymp import *

db = TinyDB('data.msg',storage=MsgPackStorage)

def dbins():
   db.insert({'type': 'apple', 'count': 7})

dbins()

As you can see, it's a simple drop-in replacement for any storage engine and it can be nested and cached. Don't forget, you will need to install as a minimum, the msgpack-python library using pip install msgpack-python and the U-MsgPack library from https://github.com/vsergeev/u-msgpack-python in order to use that option.

Example Usage using alternative MessagePack Library:

from tinydb import TinyDB, Query
from tinymp import *

db = TinyDB('data.msg',storage=MsgPackStorage,Lib='umsgpack')

def dbins():
   db.insert({'type': 'apple', 'count': 7})

dbins()

As you can see, it's a simple drop-in replacement for any storage engine and it can be nested and cached.

Why would I use this?

Looking at the statistics below, it's apparent that compared to the "standard" JSON Storage mechanism, MessagePack isn't as quick, however, the filesizes on disc are smaller - consider the table below, with 1,000 JSON documents of minute size - clearly, the MessagePack compressed format is smaller than the JSON format. Whether you choose the default MsgPack library, which is marginally slower than the U-MsgPack library (at the cost of a small increase in storage footprint with U-MsgPack) is dependent on your use case.

Timings (seconds)

Format	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	FileSize
JSON Write:	2.147	2.011	2.040	37.0 Kb
MsgPack Write:	9.562	9.732	9.716	21.1 Kb
U-MsgPack Write:	9.354	9.066	8.949	24.1 Kb

Changes

• Version 1.0.0-Beta5 - XX/XX/XXXX

  • Added PiPy compatibility
  • PEP-8 Compliant code style

• Version 1.0.0-Beta4 - 11/26/2017

  • Added descriptions of benchmarking and tidied up repo
  • Further added information to README about usage

• Version 1.0.0-Beta3 - 11/24/2017

  • Added support for u-msgpack-python alternative msgpack library

• Version 1.0.0-Beta2 - 11/21/2017

  • Fixed Testing issues

• Version 1.0.0-Beta - 11/19/2017

  • Tidied up repo ready for Beta release

• Version 0.2.0 - 11/18/2017

  • Tidied up repo
  • Added initial benchmarking and example
  • Added Github Community files.

• Version 0.1 - 11/13/2017

  • Initial Release.

References:

• TinyDB https://github.com/msiemens/tinydb
• MessagePack https://msgpack.org/index.html
• U-MsgPack https://github.com/vsergeev/u-msgpack-python