September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
138 pages
1h 44m
English
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Chapter 4. MongoDB with Web Frameworks
While MongoDB can be used in all sorts of applications, its most obvious role is as the database backend for a web application. These days, a great many mobile and tablet applications are functioning as “fat clients” to the same HTTP-based API’s as browser-based web applications; hence mobile and tablet apps need the same sort of backend database infrastructure as more traditional web apps.
Many organizations and engineers are finding the advantages of MongoDB’s document-oriented architecture compelling enough to migrate parts or even entire applications from traditional RDBMS such as MySQL to MongoDB. Numerous well-known companies have built their whole application from the ground up on MongoDB.
It is my opinion that for the vast majority of web, mobile and tablet applications, MongoDB is a better starting point than RDBMS technology such as MySQL. This chapter is an attempt to get you off the ground using MongoDB with three common Python web frameworks: Pylons, Pyramid and Django.
Pylons 1.x and MongoDB
Pylons is one of the older WSGI-based Python web frameworks, dating back to September 2005. Pylons reached version 1.0 in 2010 and is considered very stable at this point. In fact, not much development is planned for Pylons 1.x any more; all new development is happening in Pyramid (see Pyramid and MongoDB for details). The Pylons philosophy is the precise opposite of “one-size-fits-all.” Application developers are free to choose from the various ...
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