Re: Django: Object Oriented or Relational Database?

On 26 jan, 22:30, Adrian Bool <a...@logic.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> On 26 Jan 2011, at 12:55, bruno desthuilliers wrote:
>
> > Some will talk about "OO/relational impedance mismatch" (ok, I cheated
> > - Daniel just did;)), but I don't see it that way as far as I'm
> > concerned - I'm using a relational model wrapped into an OO
> > representation, and that's just what I want for most apps.
>
> Many thanks for your comments; although it wasn't really what I wanted to hear - as I prefer the OO model over the relational.  I now feel that if I decide to use Django - not following a relational style will only cause me difficulties.

You are of course free to replace Django's ORM with some OODB (ZODB
anyone ?), but then say goodbye to the admin.

But anyway: for the kind of apps/tasks you described, nothing beats a
good relational DB. Really. Been here, done that...

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