Use GraphDB with Django

[Stephan Gerhard]

Hi,
With the Python package Bulbs/Bulbflow, I can interface graph
databases and
model my domain objects. http://bulbflow.com/quickstart/#domain-models
What I would like to do is to define my domain models in this way and
use
them to query/update the graph db through my views in Django, instead
of
going through Django's ORM to the relational database.

Has anyone tried to do this? Or do you know what implementation effort
would
be required on the Django-side to make this bridge?

In particular, I would be interested in how to keep the graph object
persistent,
in order to use it from within my views.

Thanks for any suggestions or ideas,
Stephan

[Amirouche]

Héllo,

What is you progress on the subject ? I answer your questions based on my experience of both doing Django, and graph database work with a framework like Django.

With the Python package Bulbs/Bulbflow, I can interface graph
databases and
model my domain objects. http://bulbflow.com/quickstart/#domain-models
What I would like to do is to define my domain models in this way and
use
them to query/update the graph db through my views in Django, instead
of
going through Django's ORM to the relational database.

 

Has anyone tried to do this? Or do you know what implementation effort
would
be required on the Django-side to make this bridge?

What you need to do is create a reusable application that will link Bulbflow with Django

settings so that you can import the graph object representing the graph. It's easy,

it has been done (disclaimer they are all my project and unmaintened so far):

- https://github.com/amirouche/Flask-Bulbs

- https://bitbucket.org/amirouche/flask-graphiti

And for django:

- https://bitbucket.org/amirouche/django-graphiti

 

I'm not up-to-date regarding bulbflow but this must be pretty similar work

 

In particular, I would be interested in how to keep the graph object
persistent,
in order to use it from within my views.

I don't understand the question fully but basically you issue queries that saves you models' nodes and edges.

 

Cheers,

 

 Amirouche