This package provides C bindings for sophia, a ligthweight DBM-like database. Available operations on a database are inserting a key-value pair, deleting it, or retrieving a value given its key. It is also possible to traverse the records of a database in ascending or descending order.
With pip:
pip install sophia
With the source package:
python setup.py install
If you want to check how the library performs, look at the benchmarks on the website of the author, and run the script bench.py located in the tests directory of this package.