Re: Thinking about NoSQL support

2013-09-08 Thread Alex Burgel
On Sunday, September 8, 2013 2:20:56 AM UTC-4, Benjamin Zuill-Smith wrote: > The django-nonrel project is alive and looking for contributors. >> > > Hi Alex, thanks for responding. I guess I was concerned by the lack of > commits lately, but looks like it's still alive and kicking by your post.

Re: Thinking about NoSQL support

2013-09-08 Thread Benjamin Zuill-Smith
> > The django-nonrel project is alive and looking for contributors. > Hi Alex, thanks for responding. I guess I was concerned by the lack of commits lately, but looks like it's still alive and kicking by your post. I'm interested in helping in this endeavor. I've been pouring over the docs

Re: Thinking about NoSQL support

2013-09-06 Thread Alex Burgel
On Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:12:26 PM UTC-4, Benjamin Zuill-Smith wrote: > 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

Re: Thinking about NoSQL support

2013-09-05 Thread Curtis Maloney
> > > > 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

2013-09-05 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
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

2013-09-05 Thread Curtis Maloney
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

2013-09-05 Thread Benjamin Zuill-Smith
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