Am I the only one who thinks that generating a report over a set of
just 10.000 records could be done in 10 - 20 secs unless there are
some serious computations going on with that data?

For a report I have to query around 200.000 records, with
aggregations, and it takes less than a minute using the ORM.

On 3/11/17, Daniel Hepper <[email protected]> wrote:
> In additions to the suggestions you already received from others, have a
> look at django-import-export. It allows you to easily export data in
> various formats.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Daniel Hepper
> https://consideratecode.com
>
> On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 12:06:13 PM UTC+1, Web Architect wrote:
>>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Thanks for your response. Melvyn also posed a similar point of not loading
>>
>> the whole records.
>>
>> But all the records are needed for reporting purposes - where the data is
>>
>> read from the DB and a csv report is created. I am not quite an expert on
>>
>> Django but I am not sure if there is a better way to do it.
>>
>> The scenario is as follows to make it clearer:
>>
>> Ours is an ecommerce site built on Django. Our admin/accounting team needs
>>
>> to download reports now and then. We have a Django model for the line
>> items
>> purchased. Now there could be 10k line items sold and each line items are
>>
>> associated with other models like payments, shipments etc which is a
>> complex set of relations.
>>
>> We do not yet have a sophisticated reporting mechanism but was working on
>>
>> building a simplistic reporting system on Django. But I am finding issues
>>
>> with scaling up - as reported with CPU Usage and the amount of time taken.
>>
>> If there is a way to optimise this - would be great otherwise we might not
>>
>> have to look for standard methods of reporting tools.
>>
>> Would appreciate suggestions/advices on the above.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 2:52:50 PM UTC+5:30, James Schneider wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 9, 2017 9:37 PM, "Web Architect" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Would like to further add - the python CPU Usage is hitting almost 100 %.
>>>
>>> When I run  a Select * query on Mysql, its quite fast and CPU is normal.
>>> I
>>> am not sure if anything more needs to be done in Django.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ironically, things being done in Django is the reason for your CPU
>>> utilization issue in the first place.
>>>
>>> Calling a qs.all() is NOT the same as a SELECT * statement, even more so
>>>
>>> when speaking to the scale of query that you mention.
>>>
>>> Your SQL query is simply listing data in a table. A very easy thing to
>>> do, hence the reason it runs quickly.
>>>
>>> The qs.all() call is also running the same query (probably). However, in
>>>
>>> addition to pulling all of the data, it is performing a transformation of
>>>
>>> that data in to Django model objects. If you are pulling 10K items, then
>>>
>>> Django is creating 10K objects, which is easily more intensive than a raw
>>>
>>> SQL query, even for simple model objects.
>>>
>>> In general, there's usually no practical reason to ever pull that many
>>> objects from a DB for display on a page. Filter down to a reasonable
>>> number
>>> (<100 for almost all sane cases) or implement a paging system to limit
>>> returned results. It's also probably using a ton of RAM only to be
>>> immediately thrown away at the end of the request. Browsers will
>>> disintegrate trying to render that many HTML elements simultaneously.
>>>
>>> Look at implementing a paging system, possibly through Django's built-in
>>>
>>> mechanism, or something like Datatables and the infinite scroll plugin.
>>>
>>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/pagination/
>>>
>>> https://datatables.net/extensions/scroller/
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>>
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