Closed zanpakuto closed 11 months ago
MMDB is a data format that allows arbitrarily structured records. The various GeoIP2 databases have metadata and records that follow particular formats that geoip2
expects. If you are building a database from scratch that does not follow the record format of the MaxMind databases exactly, I would recommend reading them with maxminddb
in Python rather than geoip2
. maxminddb
can return data in an arbitrary record format.
All MaxMind databases are made using mmdbwriter
in Go or MaxMind::DB::Writer
in Perl.
I have created an mmdb file using the golang mmdbwriter, but had a hard time reading it geoip2 readers because of exceptions while reading the file (https://pypi.org/project/geoip2/).
I'm wondering if there is way to create a geoip2 compatible mmdb that could be read by geoip2 readers.
What is the actual difference between geoip2 and mmdbwriter?