Django-MySQL

The dolphin-pony - proof that cute + cute = double cute.

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 - chunked pagination across a large queryset
  • approx_count for quick estimates of count()
  • Query hints
  • Quick pt-visual-explain of the underlying query
• Model fields:
  • MySQL 5.7+ JSON Field
  • MariaDB Dynamic Columns for storing dictionaries
  • Comma-separated fields for storing lists and sets
  • 'Missing' fields: differently sized BinaryField/TextField classes, BooleanFields represented by BIT(1)
• ORM expressions for over 20 MySQL-specific functions
• A new cache backend that makes use of MySQL's upsert statement 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
• Table lock manager for hard to pull off data migrations

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

Requirements

Tested with all combinations of:

• Python: 2.7, 3.5
• Django: 1.8, 1.9, 1.10
• MySQL: 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 / MariaDB: 5.5, 10.0, 10.1
• mysqlclient: 1.3.7 (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 - however you should probably just upgrade.

Please note that some features are restricted to particular databases, database versions or Django versions - all such restrictions can be found in the documentation for each feature.

Documentation

Every detail documented on Read The Docs.