I've been wanting to write this entry for a long time now. Since I recently put simplestore on Google Code I feel that it's finally time to write my thoughts about storing schema-less data. I wrote simplestore because I was fascinated by Bret Taylor's blog entry How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. My blog actually uses a predecessor to simplestore and it's worked out pretty well so far.

Here are a couple pages of documentation that demonstrate some of what simplestore is capable of. There's even a page on using simplestore with Pylons. To get a better look at simplestore's functionality I highly recommend reading (and running) the unit tests and reading over the actual source code. The latest official release can be downloaded here: simplestore-0.2.1.tar.gz

SimpleStore is still very new and there is still a lot of work to be done on it. Please email me at david@alwaysmovefast.com with any questions or requests of features/docs/tests you'd like to see regarding simplestore.