django-mysql 3.11.0

Django-MySQL extends Django's built-in MySQL and MariaDB support their specific features not available on other databases.

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Django-MySQL extends Django’s built-in MySQL and MariaDB support their specific features not available on other databases.

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 and Installation

Please see https://django-mysql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html .

Documentation

Every detail documented on Read The Docs.