Re: [ GSOC 2016 ] providing standard interface for NoSQL databases

2016-03-19 Thread girish ramnani
In the beginning I thought about making an api which supports column databases such as cassendra but would mean that i would need to first find commonalities between all 3 ( column , document and relational ) but such commonalities would be lesser and so finally i would require to create a

Re: [ GSOC 2016 ] providing standard interface for NoSQL databases

2016-03-16 Thread Anssi Kääriäinen
There are two goals when it comes to document DB support. First goal is to allow usage of models written specifically for document oriented databases. This is something that should be possible to achieve even if there are some hard problems to solve. The other goal is to allow usage of any Django

Re: [ GSOC 2016 ] providing standard interface for NoSQL databases

2016-03-15 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
It would also be worthwhile looking into the prior art on this topic. We had a GSoC project for non-relational data stores a few years back, and came to the conclusion that it probably wasn’t viable. You can dig into the archives to find out why. If you’re interested in adding non-relational

Re: [ GSOC 2016 ] providing standard interface for NoSQL databases

2016-03-15 Thread Curtis Maloney
It sounds like by "NoSQL DBS" you mean specifically "Document store DBMS". Is this correct? (I'm sure most people know my rant about how "NoSQL" is a misnomer, and it's really "Non-relational" that people mean - it's not SQL per se they're avoiding, it's the relational model) The

[ GSOC 2016 ] providing standard interface for NoSQL databases

2016-03-15 Thread girish ramnani
Hello, I would like to propose providing a standard interface for NoSQL databases . Some the points to consider are: 1. The *Fields *which are used to define the schema of the sql databases can also be used to provide in No sql databases. 2. In NoSQL dbs ,developers usually store