Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: SQLAlchemy
Version: 0.7.8
Summary: Database Abstraction Library
Home-page: http://www.sqlalchemy.org
Author: Mike Bayer
Author-email: mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com
License: MIT License
Description: SQLAlchemy
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        The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper
        
        Introduction
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        SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper
        that gives application developers the full power and
        flexibility of SQL. SQLAlchemy provides a full suite
        of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns,
        designed for efficient and high-performing database
        access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain
        language.
        
        Major SQLAlchemy features include:
        
        * An industrial strength ORM, built 
          from the core on the identity map, unit of work,
          and data mapper patterns.   These patterns
          allow 100% of object persistence behavior to 
          be defined declaratively.  The domain model
          can be constructed and manipulated naturally,
          and changes are synchronized with the
          current transaction automatically.
        * A relationally-oriented query system, exposing
          joins, subqueries, correlation, and everything
          else explicitly, in terms of the object model.
          Writing queries with the ORM uses the same 
          techniques of relational composition you use 
          when writing SQL.  While you can drop into
          literal SQL at any time, it's virtually never
          needed.
        * The most comprehensive and flexible system anywhere 
          of eager loading of related collections and objects.
          Collections are fully cached within a session,
          and can be loaded on individual access, all 
          at once using joins, or by query per collection
          across the full result set.
        * A Core SQL construction system and DBAPI 
          interaction layer.  The SQLAlchemy Core is
          separate from the ORM and is a full database
          abstraction layer in it's own right, and includes
          an extensible Python-based SQL expression 
          language, schema metadata, connection pooling, 
          type coercion, and custom types.
        * All primary and foreign key constraints are 
          assumed to be composite and natural.  Surrogate
          integer primary keys are of course still the 
          norm, but SQLAlchemy never assumes or hardcodes
          to this model.
        * Database introspection and generation.  Database
          schemas can be "reflected" in one step into
          Python structures representing database metadata;
          those same structures can then generate 
          CREATE statements right back out - all within
          the Core, independent of the ORM.
        
        SQLAlchemy's philosophy:
        
        * SQL databases behave less and less like object
          collections the more size and performance start to
          matter; object collections behave less and less like
          tables and rows the more abstraction starts to matter.
          SQLAlchemy aims to accommodate both of these
          principles.
        * An ORM doesn't need to hide the "R".   A relational
          database provides rich, set-based functionality
          that should be fully exposed.   SQLAlchemy's
          ORM provides an open-ended set of patterns
          that allow a developer to construct a custom
          mediation layer between a domain model and 
          a relational schema, turning the so-called
          "object relational impedance" issue into
          a distant memory.
        * The developer, in all cases, makes all decisions
          regarding the design, structure, and naming conventions
          of both the object model as well as the relational
          schema.   SQLAlchemy only provides the means
          to automate the execution of these decisions.
        * With SQLAlchemy, there's no such thing as 
          "the ORM generated a bad query" - you 
          retain full control over the structure of 
          queries, including how joins are organized,
          how subqueries and correlation is used, what 
          columns are requested.  Everything SQLAlchemy
          does is ultimately the result of a developer-
          initiated decision.
        * Don't use an ORM if the problem doesn't need one.
          SQLAlchemy consists of a Core and separate ORM
          component.   The Core offers a full SQL expression
          language that allows Pythonic construction 
          of SQL constructs that render directly to SQL
          strings for a target database, returning
          result sets that are essentially enhanced DBAPI
          cursors.
        * Transactions should be the norm.  With SQLAlchemy's
          ORM, nothing goes to permanent storage until
          commit() is called.  SQLAlchemy encourages applications
          to create a consistent means of delineating
          the start and end of a series of operations.
        * Never render a literal value in a SQL statement.
          Bound parameters are used to the greatest degree
          possible, allowing query optimizers to cache 
          query plans effectively and making SQL injection
          attacks a non-issue.
        
        Documentation
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        Latest documentation is at:
        
        http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/
        
        Installation / Requirements
        ---------------------------
        
        Full documentation for installation is at 
        `Installation <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/intro.html#installation>`_.
        
        Getting Help / Development / Bug reporting
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        Please refer to the `SQLAlchemy Community Guide <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/support.html>`_.
        
        License
        -------
        
        SQLAlchemy is distributed under the `MIT license
        <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>`_.
        
        
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