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Storm Manual

This is the detailed documentation for Storm. For a more hands-on approach, check out the [:Tutorial: Tutorial].

Databases

The create_database() function

The create_database() function has the following prototype:

database = create_database(uri)

The uri parameter may be either a URI string or a URI object. The following URIs are examples of acceptable syntax:

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQLite

The Store interface

The ResultSet interface

Properties

Table of properties vs. database types

Property

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQLite

Bool

BOOL

TINYINT(1)

anything(*)

Int

SERIAL, BIGSERIAL, SMALLINT, INT, BIGINT

TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDIUMINT, INT, BIGINT

anything(*)

Float

FLOAT, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION

FLOAT, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION

anything(*)

Unicode

TEXT, VARCHAR, CHAR

TEXT, VARCHAR, CHAR

anything(*)

Chars

BYTEA

BLOB, BINARY, VARBINARY

anything(*)

DateTime

TIMESTAMP

DATETIME, TIMESTAMP

anything(*)

Date

DATE

DATE

anything(*)

Time

TIME

TIME

anything(*)

(*) SQLite won't enforce data types, so they just must be formatted properly.

References

One-to-one

Many-to-one

Many-to-many

The Reference interface

The ReferenceSet interface

Expressions

Creating a backend

Testing

It's easy to test that Storm features are working with new backends. There are base test classes in tests/store/database.py and tests/store/base.py which may be inherited by database-specific test cases. Look at other backends to get a feeling of how it works.

If these tests pass with a new backend, you may be pretty sure that Storm is working fine with the created backend.