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Newt DB Architecture
====================

Newt builds on `ZODB <www.zodb.org>`_ and `Postgresql
Newt builds on `ZODB <http://www.zodb.org/>`_ and `PostgreSQL
<https://www.postgresql.org/>`_. Both of these are mature open-source
projects with years of production experience.

ZODB is an object-oriented database for Python. It provides
transparent object persistence. ZODB has a pluggable storage layer
and Newt leverages `RelStorage
<http://relstorage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ to store data in
<https://relstorage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ to store data in
Postgres.

Newt adds conversion of data from the native serialization used by
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it's intended audience. These are intended to augment but not hide
ZODB and RelStorage. Some of these are just aliases. It will be
possible to integrate Newt with existing ZODB applications.