Installation & Setup

Practical setup guides, performance tuning for free-threaded Python, migration workflows, and upgrade notes.

v3.1.1

Updated from GitHub 10/18/2026

1. Installation & Environment Setup

NimbusKV requires Python 3.9+ and has minimal dependencies. It is published on PyPI.

Standard In-Memory / SQLite Installation

$pip install nimbuskv

With Redis Persistence Backend

$pip install "nimbuskv[redis]"

To run from source or contribute to the library:

Terminal

1git clone https://github.com/NimbusKV/NimbusKV.git
2cd NimbusKV
3pip install -e ".[dev]"
4pytest tests/ -v