Django ElasticSearch Engine

Info

It's a database backend that adds elasticsearch support to django

Author

Alberto [aparo] Paro (http://github.com/aparo)

Requirements

• Django non rel http://github.com/aparo/django-nonrel
• Djangotoolbox http://github.com/aparo/djangotoolbox
• pyes http://github.com/aparo/pyes

About Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

About ElasticSearch

TODO

Infographics

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• Django Nonrel branch
• Manager
• Compiler (ElasticSearch Engine one)
• ElasticSearch

django-elasticsearch uses the new django1.2 multi-database support and sets to the model the database using the "django_elasticsearch".

Examples

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    surname = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    age = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u"Person: %s %s" % (self.name, self.surname)

>> p, created = Person.objects.get_or_create(name="John", defaults={'surname' : 'Doe'})
>> print created
True
>> p.age = 22
>> p.save()

=== Querying ===
>> p = Person.objects.get(name__istartswith="JOH", age=22)
>> p.pk
u'4bd212d9ccdec2510f000000'