Fun with Django and Databases

A talk I gave at EuroPython 2010

1. Django and Databases Fun with
2. ""Andrew speaks English like a machine gun speaks bullets."" Reinout van Rees
3. Introduction
4. from django.db import models
5. First, an aside
6. ""When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"" Abraham Manslow (paraphrased)
7. Also, "NoSQL"? Really?
8. queryset.raw()
9. qs = Teacher.objects.raw(""" SELECT t.name, COUNT(s.id) FROM school_teacher AS t INNER JOIN school_student AS s ON t.id = s.teacher_id GROUP BY t.name HAVING COUNT(s.id) > 2 """)
10. queryset.aggregate()
11. qs = Teacher.objects.annotate( num_students = models.Count('student') ).filter(num_students__gt=2)
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13. Schema Changes
14. Changing Requirements
15. Dynamic/Unknown Data
16. Document Databases MongoDB CouchDB
17. Key-Value Stores Redis Cassandra
18. Redis Sets Sorted Sets Hashes Pub/Sub Atomicity
19. Message Queues AMQP Celery
20. Various Others Graph databases Filesystems VCSs
21. Conclusion
22. Thanks. Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin http://aeracode.org