On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:35 PM, parisrocks <saravanan.sellathu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Django Users, > I tried Django recently and really liked the simplistic approach for > building sites. > But there's no official support for NoSQL databases like Cassandra or > MongoDB, there's a great community of NoSQL users waiting for an official > ORM support from Django like me. I would say Django with NoSQL ORM support > could actually make it more popular compared to its rivals Ruby on Rails or > even Java for that reason. > > Waiting for official Django ORM support for NoSql databases. > > Thanks >
ORM stands for Object-Relational Mapper. It is a tool for expressing relational databases - databases in which objects are related to other objects - as a way of presenting an object oriented view of that data. MongoDB (and the vast majority of NoSQL databases) are not relational databases, they are document oriented databases, they store documents of an unspecified type and allow you to retrieve documents by id, or perhaps other attributes of the document. At no point with MongoDB can you have relationships between two different documents that can be followed or queried. Therefore, I'm quite confused what you want from an "ORM" interface to a NoSQL database. Each document has no relationships, there is nothing for an "ORM" to do... NoSQL databases can already be used within django as document stores, simply install the appropriate python adapter and go nuts. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFHbX1KVvSJ_B49KwZE3eWz51t37fg88KY0yPpnc1BT5tkv4Hw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
