Storage Backends¶

Overview¶

metastore-lib abstracts versioned storage backends, and supports different storage backends out of the box. The following storage backends are currently provided:

filesystem - a “fliesystem-like” storage backend that can use your local file system, in-process memory or any filesystem-like storage supported by [PyFilesystem](https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/).
github - stores metadata in a GitHub repository using the GitHub API

The Storage Backend Factory¶

You can get an instance of any supported backend by providing the backend type and a configuration dict to the provided factory function create_metastore:

import metastore

# Create an in-memory storage backend
config = {"uri": "mem://"}
backend = metastore.create_metastore('filesystem', config)

Storage Backends¶