django-mysql-geventpool

Mysql Connection Pooling backend for Django 2.0+ using gevent, only supports Python 3.4 or newer. It works with gunicorn async worker via gevent.

This implimentation is based on django-db-geventpool(https://github.com/jneight/django-db-geventpool).

install

pip install django-mysql-geventpool

Settings

Add the 'django_mysql_geventpool' modules to the INSTALLED_APPS like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django_mysql_geventpool',
    # ...other installed applications...
)

Add MAX_CONNS to OPTIONS to set the maximun number of connections allowed to database (default=4)

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django_mysql_geventpool.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'dbname',
        'USER': 'dbuser',
        'PASSWORD': 'dbpassword',
        'HOST': 'dbhost',
        'PORT': 'dbport',
        'OPTIONS': {
            'MAX_CONNS': 20,
            'MAX_LIFETIME': 5 * 60  # connection lifetime in seconds, and if set 0, unlimited persistent connections if usable. default is 0.
        }
    }
}