Tomas, I mean i am using web.py + sqlalchemy :)
2013/4/20 Alexander Kozlovsky <alexander.kozlov...@gmail.com> > Hi, Pony ORM developer here. We just get first public attention today, so > I don't think there are many > experienced Pony ORM users exist at this moment (April 2013) ;-) > > I think that currently Pony ORM is suitable for experiments, but probably > not for immediate in-production usage. > Currently Pony ORM is a great toy, and during the next few months we must > implement several tasks in order > to get complete product. For example, we must add support of Psycopg2 > PostgreSQL driver (currently we work > with PostgreSQL via PyGreSQL which is not as popular as Psycopg2). This is > not hard, but just takes some time. > Also, we must add migration support (and its implementation will be really > cool, we plan to get migrations > automatically from diagram changes in visual diagram editor). > > I expect Pony ORM will be fully production-ready a few months later. > > Regarding to benefits of using Pony ORM, I think its mainly in higher > level of abstraction. With Pony, you can > write query to database as if you write simple python generator to iterate > over ordinary python list of objects. > So, you can do something like this > > orders = select(o for o in Order if o.date_shipped.year == 2012) > > And you get optimized SQL query which return list of order objects. You > can pass this objects between > several layers of you application, and when some of this objects are > updated, Pony ORM accumulates > these updates and then send changes to database on commit() execution. > > The main architectural difference between Pony ORM and SQLAlchemy is this: > SQLAlchemy based > on relational data model, and can write queries to relational databases > only, whereas Pony ORM > internally based on "entity-relationship" model which is independent of > SQL. So, in the future, Pony ORM > could be used with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. But currently only SQL > databases are supported. > > So, at the current time the main difference between Pony ORM and > SALAlchemy is that SQLAlchemy > queries are more verbose. For example, this is Pony ORM query: > > select(o for o in Order if o.date_shipped.year == 2012) > > And this is equivalent SQLAlchemy query (did't test it): > > session.query(Order).filter(extract("year", Order.date_shipped) == > 2012) > > This is really the matter of taste and personal preferences, so no > critique here. > SQLAlchemy is great ORM, but I just forget correct query syntax every time > :) > I hear from many people that they cannot handle SQLAlchemy "complexity", > so maybe Pony ORM will be good choice for them. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web.py" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to webpy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to webpy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Aydın Şen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to webpy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to webpy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.