Django Packages : NoSQL

NoSQL

This is a grid of non-relational database backends.

Features currently being evaluated

Feature	Description
regex
Unsupported field options	These field options are ignored
Extra field types	Other field types which are supported (either from djangotoolbox.fields or provided by the backend itself)
Unsupported Meta options	All "class Meta" options are supported except for these
isnull
iexact
istartswith
icontains
iregex
iendswith
year
month
day
endswith
exact
in
contains
gte
gt
startswith
range
lt
lte
Unsupported Django fields	All Django fields except for these are supported
week_day
Multi-table inheritance
Transactions
QuerySet.in_bulk()
QuerySet.exists()
QuerySet.get_or_create()
QuerySet.create()
QuerySet.get()
QuerySet.defer()/only()
QuerySet.count()
QuerySet.extra()
QuerySet.select_related()
QuerySet.values_list()
QuerySet.values()
search
QuerySet.annotate()
Variance
StdDev
QuerySet.dates()
Avg
QuerySet.order_by()
Max
Min
Count
Sum
QuerySet.exclude()
OR queries	Are Q(...) \| Q(...) queries supported?
QuerySet.latest()
QuerySet.distinct()
QuerySet.reverse()
Unsupported native DB features
JOINs
QuerySet.update()
QuerySet.bulk_create()
QuerySet.delete()
QuerySet.in_bulk()
Admin interface support	Can the backend be used with the admin interface?
second
minute
hour
Unsupported native field/data types	Which DB-specific field/data types have no alternative in Django

Package	django-storages	djongo	Django-nonrel MongoDB Engine	neo4django	Couchdbkit	Django ElasticSearch Engine	djangoappengine	htsql	moma-django: Django ORM for MongoDB.	django-dockit	django-docfield-couchdb

Package	django-storages	djongo	Django-nonrel MongoDB Engine	neo4django	Couchdbkit	Django ElasticSearch Engine	djangoappengine	htsql	moma-django: Django ORM for MongoDB.	django-dockit	django-docfield-couchdb
Description	https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/	Django and MongoDB database connector	Django MongoDB Backend	Drop-in Neo4j/Django integration.	CouchDB python framework	Django ElasticSearch Backend	Django backends for App Engine support.	HTSQL is a comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases. HTSQL is designed for data analysts and other accidental programmers ...	MongoDB Manager for Django: providing native Django ORM support for Mongo DB.	Provides a document based ORM suite modelled after Django's own conventions.	Django fields that encapsulate docs and other idioms from a live CouchDB instance.
Category	App	Other	Other	Framework	App	Other	App	Other	App	Framework	App
# Using This	46	6	14	5	1	2	11	3	1	0	1
Python 3?
Development Status	Production/Stable	Alpha	Production/Stable	Alpha	Beta	n/a	n/a	Beta	Beta	Alpha	Production/Stable
Last updated	Dec. 23, 2020, 7:35 p.m.	March 25, 2021, 2:55 a.m.	July 12, 2015, 1:25 p.m.	July 3, 2014, 12:12 p.m.	Oct. 16, 2015, 1:31 a.m.	Sept. 2, 2011, 5:46 p.m.	Nov. 10, 2011, 8:05 p.m.	March 11, 2019, 5:10 p.m.	March 13, 2014, 11:09 a.m.	April 11, 2013, 2:32 p.m.	Feb. 8, 2014, 5:31 p.m.
Version	1.11.1	1.3.4	0.6.0	0.1.8	0.6.5	n/a	n/a	2.3.3	0.1.1	0.0.13	0.2.4
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Documentation					N/A	N/A		N/A			N/A
regex			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				predefined regexes with django-dbindexer
Unsupported field options			unique unique_for_date/_month/_year db_tablespace	unique_for_date/_month/_year db_tablespace db_index primary_key (Neo4j only allows a default primary id)		unique unique_for_date/_month/_year db_tablespace db_index (a more flexible alternative is available)	unique unique_for_date/_month/_year db_tablespace db_index (a more flexible alternative is available)
Extra field types			in djangotoolbox.fields: ListField DictField SetField RawField custom fields: GridFSField	ArrayProperty StringArrayProperty IntArrayProperty URLArrayProperty		ListField DictField	in djangotoolbox.fields: ListField DictField SetField RawField BlobField			ListField DictField SchemaField
Unsupported Meta options			db_tablespace	db_tablespace unique_together		db_tablespace unique_together	db_tablespace unique_together
isnull			(needs django-dbindexer for ForeignKey)				(needs django-dbindexer for ForeignKey)
iexact			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				with django-dbindexer
istartswith			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				with django-dbindexer
icontains			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				with django-dbindexer
iregex			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				predefined regexes with django-dbindexer
iendswith			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				with django-dbindexer
year
month			with django-dbindexer				with django-dbindexer
day			with django-dbindexer				with django-dbindexer
endswith			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				with django-dbindexer
exact
in							limited to 30 comparisons on non-pks
contains			(more efficient with django-dbindexer)				with django-dbindexer
gte
gt
startswith
range
lt
lte
Unsupported Django fields			ManyToManyField	None of the original Django fields are supported, and are instead replaced by fields provided by the package.		ImageField ManyToManyField	ImageField ManyToManyField
week_day			with django-dbindexer				with django-dbindexer
Multi-table inheritance			(needs JOINs)			(needs JOINs)	(needs JOINs)
Transactions			(MongoDB doesn't have transactions)	(working on it)			(but App Engine's run_in_transaction() works)
QuerySet.in_bulk()
QuerySet.exists()
QuerySet.get_or_create()
QuerySet.create()
QuerySet.get()
QuerySet.defer()/only()				(planned)			(same constraints as QuerySet.values())
QuerySet.count()
QuerySet.extra()			(SQL-specific)	(SQL-specific)		(SQL Specific)	(SQL-specific)
QuerySet.select_related()
QuerySet.values_list()							(same constraints as QuerySet.values())
QuerySet.values()							(only efficient on pk, otherwise all values are fetched internally and unneeded ones are thrown away)
search				(planned)
QuerySet.annotate()
Variance				(planned)
StdDev				(planned)
QuerySet.dates()
Avg
QuerySet.order_by()
Max
Min
Count
Sum
QuerySet.exclude()			(only with OR queries)				(only with OR queries)
OR queries							(only with QuerySet.exclude())
QuerySet.latest()
QuerySet.distinct()
QuerySet.reverse()
Unsupported native DB features			Missing in QuerySet.update(): * $push/$pushAll, $pull/$pullAll for adding/removing entries from a ListField * $addToSet to add an entry to ListField only if it doesn't exist * $pop for removing last or first element from ListField	More general method for traversals (currently supported by select_related()).			Not yet implemented: Cursors Entity groups Batch-save()
JOINs				(using traversals + indexing, since graph databases don't have tables)			via django-dbindexer (simple JOINs)
QuerySet.update()
QuerySet.bulk_create()
QuerySet.delete()
QuerySet.in_bulk()
Admin interface support
second
minute
hour
Unsupported native field/data types							Not yet implemented: Primary key for entity groups ByteStringProperty UserProperty GeoPtProperty