Tortoise ORM is an easy-to-use asyncio ORM (Object Relational Mapper) inspired by Django.
Tortoise ORM is designed to be functional, yet familiar, to ease the migration of developers wishing to switch to asyncio .
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Clean, familiar Python interface.
- Pluggable database backends – supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB.
- Designed to be used in an existing project:
- Testing framework uses existing Python Unittest framework, just requires that initializer() and finalizer() gets called to set up and tear down the test databases. (See UnitTest support ).
- ORM Init app configures entirely from provided parameters.
- Composable, Django-inspired Models.
- Supports relations, such as ForeignKeyField and ManyToManyField.
- Supports many standard Fields.
- Comprehensive Query API.
- Transactions Transactions.
- PyLint plugin.
Website: tortoise.github.io
Support: github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm
Developer: Tortoise ORM team
License: Apache-2.0 License
Tortoise ORM 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 |
| Tortoise | Easy-to-use asyncio ORM inspired by Django |
| Pony | Billed as the smartest Python ORM |
| SQLObject | Forms a part of many applications including TurboGears |
| Storm | Designed to work with thin relational databases and big systems |
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