Re: Designing a Pythonic search DSL for SQL and NoSQL databases

2013-07-19 Thread Alec Taylor
Hmm, looking at the capabilities of Redis; you're likely right. Would welcome discussion on the implementability and usefulness of a central search abstraction to the other stores mentioned. One thing could be that using the paradigm the database was made for is better than any advantages abstrac

Re: Designing a Pythonic search DSL for SQL and NoSQL databases

2013-07-19 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Alec Taylor wrote: > Dear Python community, > > I am analysing designing an abstraction layer over a select few NoSQL > and SQL databases. > > Specifically: > > - Redis, Neo4j, MongoDB, CouchDB > - PostgreSQL This isn't really a Python question. Before you even begin to think a

Designing a Pythonic search DSL for SQL and NoSQL databases

2013-07-19 Thread Alec Taylor
Dear Python community, I am analysing designing an abstraction layer over a select few NoSQL and SQL databases. Specifically: - Redis, Neo4j, MongoDB, CouchDB - PostgreSQL Being inexperienced; it is hard to know a nice way of abstracting search. For conciseness in my explanation, think of `Tab