Building REST APIs with Flask: Create Python Web Services with MySQL

© Kunal Relan 2019

K. RelanBuilding REST APIs with Flaskhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5022-8_2

2. Database Modeling in Flask

Kunal Relan¹ 

(1)

New Delhi, Delhi, India

 

This chapter covers one of the most important aspects of REST application development, that is, connecting and interacting with database systems. In this chapter, we’ll discuss about NoSQL and SQL databases, connecting and interacting with them.

In this chapter we’ll cover the following topics:

1. 1.

   NoSQL vs. SQL databases

    
2. 2.

   Connecting with Flask-SQLAlchemy

    
3. 3.

   Interacting with MySQL DB using Flask-SQLAlchemy

    
4. 4.

   Connecting with Flask-MongoEngine

    
5. 5.

   Interacting with MongoDB using Flask-MongoEngine

    

Introduction

Flask being a microframework provides flexibility of the data source for applications ...