Hey, Thanks for the answer. Luckily there are no joins, but I need to see what web2py features of DAL won't work. Thanks, Regards, Tushar Tuteja
On 30 December 2013 16:44, Alan Etkin <spame...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an app running on MySQL , I want to use mongoDB instead. >> I want to help on migration from mysql to mongoDB. >> Thanks, >> > > Beware that mongodb adapter is in an experimental stage of development, so > you should know what you are doing before migrating. I suppose there are > lots of howtos for migrating data between those backends. The web2py way of > doing has two options, AFAIK: > > - use cpdb (never tried it with those connections) > - use DAL.import_from_csv_file and DAL.export_from_csv_file methods (for a > small amount of db records) > > Mind that the most important issue is that mongodb is not a relational > database management system and there's no such thing as JOIN queries. This > is a limitation for web2py also, since some of the web2py features require > joins to work. > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/oPCXZnnFvyI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Tushar Tuteja Undergraduate Student(Fourth Year) Civil Engineering IIT Delhi +919953061943 ttut...@gmail.com <ttut...@gmal.com> ce1090...@civil.iitd.ernet.in "The question isn't who is going to let me; its who is going to stop me!" - Howard Roark -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
