# Use 3rd party library

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-3rd-party-library/55419>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 26, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-3rd-party-library/55419 "2022-01-26T20:42:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Arnaud\_Declerck](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/arnaud_declerck/32/44872_2.png) [@Arnaud\_Declerck](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arnaud_Declerck)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-3rd-party-library/55419/1 "2022-01-26T20:42:39Z")

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Hi,

Could someone help me do get this library working on ignition?

> **[pysondb](https://pypi.org/project/pysondb/#description)**
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> A Python JSON based lightweight Database.

or another one doing the same. I just looking on a friendly way to use json file as a database.

thx

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-3rd-party-library/55419/2 "2022-01-26T20:47:25Z")

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Can’t use that one…

```auto
Requires: Python >=3

```

I think Ignition 7.9 uses Python 2.5 and v8 uses Python 2.7 (acutally Jython in both cases)

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**Author:** ![Arnaud\_Declerck](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/arnaud_declerck/32/44872_2.png) [@Arnaud\_Declerck](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arnaud_Declerck)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-3rd-party-library/55419/3 "2022-01-27T10:19:40Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the informations, i will then look for something compatible

Regards

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-3rd-party-library/55419/4 "2022-01-27T14:54:04Z")

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FWIW PostgreSQL is free, has a JSON datatype, and is Ignition friendly.

[Here’s](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/postgres-db-and-jsonb-datatypes-with-ignition-and-python-scripting/52356) how you could insert with json with postgres