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Update: It's possible to use simple JOINs via the django-dbindexer now.

Finally, Django-nonrel has a MongoDB backend, which was originally started by George Karpenkov and then finished by Alberto Paro, Flavio Percoco, and I adapted the code to the nonrel backend API.

This means you can use the Django ...

We really wanted to avoid this, but with the soon-to-be-announced MongoDB backend we realized that our current project structure for djangoappengine-based projects makes portability between different nonrel backends and installation on MongoDB-based projects unnecessarily difficult. Please adapt your project to the new recommended structure. We've published detailed installation ...

Django-nonrel's App Engine backend (djangoappengine) now finally supports all query features available on App Engine. Additionally, we now support DecimalField, thanks to Mariusz Kryński!

Let's start with "!=" query support. You can now create queries like this:

Post.objects.exclude(category='sql')

This has the same behavior ...

This is great news for Django developers who want to use non-relational DBs: Alex Gaynor got accepted for adding non-relational DB support to Django's ORM during Google Summer of Code! This means that we now have to make sure that the ORM changes are flexible enough to build a ...

DjangoDose has published a "callcast" about NoSQL support in Django. It's pretty interesting to learn about the different views on how far support for non-relational (NoSQL) DBs should go. Alex Gaynor wants to work on NoSQL backend support during Google Summer of Code and if he gets ...

In our April 1st post we claimed to have a simplified backend API. Well, this wasn't true, of course, but yesterday it has become true. The Django ORM is pretty complicated and it takes too much time for contributors to understand all the necessary details. In order to make ...

Update: Did you fall for it? Looks like small lies are more credible. So, there really is no such backend. But if you want to implement one please read our Writing a non-relational Django backend post.

As you may have noticed, there were no blog posts in the last three ...

This post is a short update on new features we've added to our App Engine backend djangoappengine. So let's plunge in at the deep end. :)

New Features

First we added support for ListFields. You can use them in combination with any Django field type. Let's say you ...