Re: Thinking about NoSQL support

> > > > I wish people would stop abusing the term "NoSQL". Your target concept > is > > Non-Relational data stores, not SQL itself. There's a whole bunch of > > relational stores that don't use SQL, one of them is even called NoSQL!) > > > > to me, "Non-Relational data stores" still sounds as

Re: Thinking about NoSQL support

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Curtis Maloney wrote: > But trying to shoe-horn a single API onto all models won't work. +1 to this. there are lots of kinds of databases, relational, hierarchical, object based, key-value, document-based, column-oriented, graphs,

Re: Thinking about NoSQL support

Well, there was the django-nonrel project, for trying to wrap non-relational stores [such as Mongo] in a faux relational layer, so they could then be wrapped in the ORM. Always felt like a tremendous waste of resources to me -- why use a non-relational store just to pretend it _is_ one? My view

Thinking about NoSQL support

I've recently discovered Django and would love this framework in tandem with a NoSql solution like MongoDB. I know there is project called mongodb-engine but the solutions it brings feel hackish to me because it is not built into Django but added like middleware under the hood. I'm weary of