Peewee is a simple, small and expressive Object Relational Mapper. It has few (but expressive) concepts, making it easy to learn and intuitive to use.
It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and CockroachDB.
Peewee is free and open source software.
Key Features
- A small, expressive ORM.
- Python 2.7+ and 3.4+ (developed with 3.6).
- Contains helpers for working interactively from a Python interpreter or something like a Jupyter notebook.
- Many extensions modules are available. They include modules that expose vendor-specific database features like the SQLite Extensions and Postgresql Extensions extensions.
Website: docs.peewee-orm.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Charles Leifer and contributors
License: MIT License
Peewee is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Python Object-Relational Mapping Software | |
|---|---|
| Django | High-level web application framework that has a powerful ORM |
| SQLAlchemy | Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper |
| Peewee | Simple, small and expressive Object Relational Mapper. It has few concepts |
| SQLModel | Combines database models with type-safe data validation |
| Tortoise | Easy-to-use asyncio ORM inspired by Django |
| Pony | Billed as the smartest Python ORM |
| Piccolo | Async-first database toolkit with migrations and a powerful query API |
| SQLObject | Forms a part of many applications including TurboGears |
| ormar | Build expressive async database models with minimal boilerplate |
| Edgy | Modern async database layer focused on simplicity and flexibility |
| Saffier | Lightweight async data modelling with support for multiple databases |
| Storm | Designed to work with thin relational databases and big systems |
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