simplebackend is the data storage module for brockman. I thought it might be handy for other small projects out there. Here you go. I only reccommend it for small-scale applications.

Without caching, it opens/closes the underlying shelve on every getitem/setitem. With caching, which probably isn't even the proper term anymore, the entire db will wind up in memory, which makes it very fast, but also taxes your system resources with a large db (but this isn't for large dbs ;-) ).