Panel Discussion on Django and NoSQL

This was a pretty interesting view into the direction that people think the project is going. I think the points made about leaky abstractions are key here.

The lowest common denominator of SQL is pretty well defined and even though it's the "lowest" it's still quite useful. There are also hooks to hang advanced features onto and ways of digging into db-specific features if you want without throwing everything away.

For Django to start building a useful layer on top of NoSQL db commonalities, the common features of those db's will have to shake down a bit. Even the list of db's that are targeted will have to shake down a bit more.

One of the panelists, Waldemar Kornewald, summarized this Panel at http://djangodose.com/podcasts/callcast/episode/11/ We may get official non-relational DB support in Django 1.3!