Introduction

The Aerospike Python client enables you to build an application in Python with an Aerospike cluster as its database. The client manages the connections to the cluster and handles the transactions performed against it.

The Python client is a CPython module built on the Aerospike C client.

Data Model

At the top is the namespace, a container that has one set of policy rules for all its data, and is similar to the database concept in an RDBMS, only distributed across the cluster. A namespace is subdivided into sets, similar to tables.

Pairs of key-value data called bins make up records, similar to columns of a row in a standard RDBMS. Aerospike is schema-less, meaning that you do not need to define your bins in advance.

Records are uniquely identified by their key, and record metadata is contained in an in-memory primary index.

Layout

aerospike

Constructors for the Client and GeoJSON classes

Server-side types

Serialization

Logging

Helper function for calculating key digest

Constants

aerospike.predicates

Query predicates

aerospike.exception

All exception classes

Exception hierarchy

aerospike_helpers

Bin operations (list, map, bitwise, etc.)

Aerospike expressions

Batch operations

Complex data type context

The aerospike module contains these classes:

Class	Description
aerospike.Client — Client Class	Aerospike client API
aerospike.Scan — Scan Class	Contains scan operations of entire sets.
aerospike.Query — Query Class	Handles queries over secondary indexes.
aerospike.GeoJSON — GeoJSON Class	Handles GeoJSON type data.
aerospike.KeyOrderedDict — KeyOrderedDict Class	Key ordered dictionary
aerospike.Transaction — Multi Record Transaction Class	Multi-record transaction

In addition, the Python Data Mappings page explains how Python types map to Aerospike Server types.

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