adamyp/django-mysql

Extensions to Django for use with MySQL/MariaDB

Django MySQL

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Django-MySQL is a non-inventively named package that helps you use some MySQL/MariaDB-specific features in the world of Django.

What kind of features?

Includes:

• QuerySet extensions - 'smart' iteration, approx_count for quick estimates of count(), quick pt-visual-explain of the underlying query
• Model fields for storing lists and sets in comma-separated strings, with the ability to query them
• ORM expressions for MySQL-specific functions
• A new cache backend that makes use of MySQL's upserts and does compression
• Handler API for quicker-than-SQL reads using the 'NoSQL' HANDLER commands
• Status variable inspection and utility methods
• Named locks for easy locking of e.g. external resources

To see them all, check out the exposition at http://django-mysql.readthedocs.org/en/latest/exposition.html .

Requirements

Tested with all combinations of:

• Python: 2.7, 3.4
• Django: 1.7, 1.8
• MySQL: 5.5, 5.6 / MariaDB: 5.5, 10.0, 10.1
• mysqlclient: 1.3.6 (Python 3 compatible version of MySQL-python)

Any combination of these should be good, and also MySQL-python should work since it's just an older version of mysqlclient.