The miniDB project is a minimal and easy to expand and develop for RMDBS tool, written excusivelly in Python 3. MiniDB's main goal is to provide the user with as much functionality as posssible while being easy to understand and even easier to expand. Thus, miniDB's primary market are students and researchers that want to work with a tool that they can understand through and through, while being able to implement additional features as quickly as possible.

Python 3.7 or newer is needed. To download and build the project run:

git clone https://github.com/DataStories-UniPi/miniDB.git
cd miniDB
pip install -r requirements.txt

The last command will install the packages found in requirements.txt. MiniDB is based on the following dependencies:

• tabulate (for text formatting)
• graphviz (for graph visualizations; optional)
• matplotlib (for plotting; optional)

Alternatively, the above dependencies can be installed with the following command:

pip install tabulate graphviz matplotlib

Linux users can optionally install the Graphviz package to visualize graphs:

sudo apt-get install graphviz

Installation instructions for non-Linux users can be found here.

The file documentation.pdf contains a detailed description of the miniDB library (in Greek).

To create a database containing the smallRelations tables and get an interactive shell, run

python -i smallRelationsInsertFile.py

You can the access the database through the db object that will be available. For example, you can show the contents of the student table by running the following command:

>> db.show_table('student')

The database wil be save with the name smdb. You can load the database in a separate Python shell by running the following commands:

>> from database import Database
>> db = Database("smdb", load=True)

George S. Theodoropoulos, Yannis Kontoulis, Yannis Theodoridis; Data Science Lab., University of Piraeus.