Yes, I do have interest to help on Object non-Relational Mapper. Does Django has a kind of interfaces, where I can implement my own Object non-Relational Mapper and inject it to Django?
Regards, Steve On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Joshua Partogi<joshua.part...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:17 PM, sjtirtha <sjtir...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> i found some Python API to access couchDB. > >> I'm asking here for experience. > > > > Django model is really tight to RDBMS. You are going to have a hard time > > making django model work with non-RDBMS > > This isn't entirely correct. Django's ORM is in no way tied to > relational databases. Look at the public API for the ORM - the > interface that is provided is object based, not relational. You don't > call "SELECT * FROM table", you call Model.objects.all() > > Django's ORM doesn't currently have any non-relational > implementations, so in practice, for newcomers (such as the original > poster), this means that it isn't currently trivial to use a > non-relational store with Django's ORM. > > The key word in that sentence is _currently_. The ORM has been > specifically designed to accommodate non-relational data stores. There > have been several recent discussions on adding a Google AppEngine or > Amazon SimpleDB 'database backend'. CouchDB could also fall under this > umbrella. > > Building these backends won't be trivial, and may require some minor > modifications to the existing Django code, but they are certainly > possible in the gross framework that has been provided. If you want to > help out Django and you have interest and expertise in a particular > non-relational datastore, this would be a great way to get involved. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
