Ask HN: Rails or Django?

Re:Ask HN: Rails or Django? by honza on Monday October 25, 2010 @01:47PM (#1830769)

I'm not familiar with Rails, but in Django you are 100% tied to SQL databases. There are some efforts to make talk to NoSQL databases (like App Engine). Google actually gave up those efforts.

In Rails, I believe the database backend can be either. Look at Twitter - their using Cassandra.

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Re:Ask HN: Rails or Django? by richardhenry on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:16PM (#1830880)

There's no reason that you can't use another ORM/ODM/ORM-like interface, simply import it.

Cursebird (http://cursebird.com/) is powered by Mongo via MongoEngine (http://mongoengine.org/) and Redis via redis-py (http://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py). None of the Django apps have a models module.

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Re:Ask HN: Rails or Django? by bad_user on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:04PM (#1830835)

     Google actually gave up those efforts.

Was there ever a Django-related effort from Google to update the ORM?

Also, the Django ORM is pretty flexibile, and the architecture just got improvements for NoSQL in 1.2.

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Re:Ask HN: Rails or Django? by bron on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:13PM (#1830866)

I think he was trying to refer to was Google's Big table integration which app engine uses instead of NoSQL.

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Re:Ask HN: Rails or Django? by bad_user on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:29PM (#1830941)

Dude, what are you guys talking about? What Big table integration? What NoSQL?

There was a Django patch somewhere that used a thin layer to make the API "look" like the Django ORM, but IMHO it is broken in a lot of ways and you're better off using the raw App Engine API (which is in no way related to Django).

But it is a half-ass attempt, looking like some patch somebody did in an afternoon to get something working: and that was the "Google effort"?

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Re:Ask HN: Rails or Django? by honza on Sunday October 31, 2010 @07:13PM (#1854671)

Yes. Check out this video: http://vimeo.com/10514466

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