Another voice piling on to the "this is not a good idea" train. I inherited a Mongo backed project at my day job that is filled with data that should have been put in a relational database. Mongo is the wrong tool for the job (and we're migrating off it). I tried putting an ORM in front of it to make things a bit easier, but I gave up. My many years of supporting a 3rd party database backend for Django gave me the insight to realize that it would take a lot of effort and ultimately would probably never work as well as migrating the data to a more appropriate database. It was definitely a lot of fun to tinker on it, but not something I'd ever want to support in production.
Regards, Michael Manfre On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:57 PM Adam Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, I think forcing Django's ORM to work on MongoDB is not a great > idea. Django relies heavily on transactions and other relational goodness. > > Have you tried storing JSON in your Postgres/MySQL database? Django can > work with that with contrib.postgres/django-mysql 😉 > > On 8 September 2017 at 16:51, 'Tom Evans' via Django developers > (Contributions to Django itself) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Short answer: always use the appropriate tool >> >> Relational databases and document stores have different uses and >> purposes. Using a document store like a relational database (eg, with >> an ORM (emphasis on the R)) is a bad idea, and using a relational >> database as a document store is similarly foolish. >> >> Work out what questions you want to ask of your data, then structure >> the data in a way that allows you to query it efficiently. >> >> If the format desired is a document store, I wouldn't attempt to >> shoehorn that in to an ORM wrapper, I'd use something like mongothon. >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom >> >> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Nes Dis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > I am wondering what is the state of the art on Django having a backend >> > connector for MongoDB database backend. There are a few solutions out >> there >> > but they don't work as expected. >> > >> > A possible solution for this is to have a connector which translates SQL >> > queries created in Django, into MongoDB queries. >> > >> > I would like to hear the expert opinion from the esteemed members of >> this >> > group on this concept. >> > >> > A working solution for this can be found here: djongo. (Django + Mongo = >> > Djongo) The project is hosted on github. >> > >> > Regards >> > Nes Dis >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> . >> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/b0ce04d1-62cb-4765-b850-06c4a5b0607f%40googlegroups.com >> . >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFHbX1%2BNpZuWrAgcMwkcJQ4Xg4TrM700JRsYV_AnW05_9L3joA%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMyDDM1YMFUT_oSGYuj-2Uqu_BSteqFbb_84Uz-zMauoE-m6Kg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMyDDM1YMFUT_oSGYuj-2Uqu_BSteqFbb_84Uz-zMauoE-m6Kg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAGdCwBtK4iK5KybOM-aUozo8UGGtWnCc9MEukYaSb_e%3DiTwidQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
