Skip to content

Welcome to s3sqlite-db

This is an extension to encode/databases that allows using sqlite database with AWS S3. Main purpose for this is use with AWS Lambda, to download sqlite db to Lambda on db connect and upload back on disconnect.

Installation

$ pip install s3sqlite-db

Usage

You can use S3Database as async context manager:

from s3sqlite_db import S3Database


S3_BUCKET = 'my-bucket'
S3_KEY = 'database.sqlite'
DATABASE_URL = f's3sqlite://{S3_BUCKET}/{S3_KEY}'

async with S3Database(DATABASE_URL) as db:
    query = table.select()
    result = await db.fetch_all(query)

or with async framework like FastAPI:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from s3sqlite_db import S3Database


app = FastAPI()
database = S3Database(DATABASE_URL)


@app.on_event("startup")
async def startup():
    await database.connect()

@app.on_event("shutdown")
async def shutdown():
    await database.disconnect()

Queries

Both sqlalchemy core and raw queries are supported.

Raw

async with S3Database(DATABASE_URL) as db:
    query = "INSERT INTO users(name, age) VALUES (:name, :age)"
    values = {"name": "John", "age": 55}
    await database.execute(query=query, values=values)

Sqlalchemy

import sqlalchemy

metadata = sqlalchemy.MetaData()


users = sqlalchemy.Table(
    "users",
    metadata,
    sqlalchemy.Column("name", sqlalchemy.String),
    sqlalchemy.Column("age", sqlalchemy.Integer),
)


async with S3Database(DATABASE_URL) as db:
    query = sqlalchemy.delete(users).where(users.c.age == 55)
    await database.execute(query=query)

Configuration

By default if remote database was modified, exception is raised, but ignote_conflicts=True argument can be specified, to force overwrite.

async with S3Database(DATABASE_URL, ignote_conflicts=True) as db:
    ...

Also you can specify a path to download local copy of db. This can be useful when working locally (not on AWS Lambda), or when whorking with several sqlite databaases at the same time.

async with S3Database(DATABASE_URL, local_path='/path/to/db.sqlite') as db:
    ...