What is Mimesis?
It is a high-performance fake data generator for Python, which provides data for a variety of purposes in a variety of languages. The fake data could be used to populate a testing database, create fake API endpoints, create JSON and XML files of arbitrary structure, anonymize data taken from production and etc.
Mimesis is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Mimesis is an open source tool with 4.5K GitHub stars and 338 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Mimesis's open source repository on GitHub
Mimesis's Features
- Easy: Designed to be easy to use and learn
- Multilingual: Supports data for a lot of languages
- Performance: The fastest data generator available for Python
- Data variety: Supports a lot of data providers for a variety of purposes
- Country-specific data providers: Provides data specific only for some countries
- Extensibility: You can create your own data providers and use them with Mimesis
- Generic data provider: The simplified access to all the providers from a single object
- Zero hard dependencies: Does not require any modules other than the Python standard library
- Schema-based generators: Provides an easy mechanism to generate data by the schema of any complexity
Mimesis Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Mimesis?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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