Use Mongodb as a backend database for your django project, without changing a single django model! This version supports Django 5.
Install djongo::
pip install djongo5
Into settings.py file of your project, add::
DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'djongo', 'NAME': 'your-db-name', } }
Run (ONLY the first time to create collections in mongoDB)::
manage.py makemigrations manage.py migrate
YOUR ARE SET! HAVE FUN!
Djongo is a SQL to mongodb query transpiler. It translates a SQL query string into a mongoDB query document. As a result, all Django features, models etc work as is.
Django contrib modules::
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.sessions',
and others... fully supported.
Full Documentation <https://www.djongomapper.com/>_Source code <https://github.com/doableware/djongo>_FAQs
Driver for allowing Django 5 to use MongoDB as the database backend.
We found that djongo5 demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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