Multiple databases (mongodb[mongoengine] and sql ) with django 1.8

Question

I am using mongoengine with Django and my project needs to connect to one instances of MongoDB while another with sql .How my databse section of setting.py should be like ?

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'admin_db',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'root',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
    },

}

from mongoengine import connect
connect(
db='pom',
username='admin',
password='root',
host='mongodb://admin:root@localhost'
)

Answer 1

You could add multiple databases for your app in your settings.py like,

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'admin_db',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'root',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
    },

    'your_desired_db_name' : {
        'ENGINE' : 'django_mongodb_engine',
        'NAME' : 'db_name'
}

For integration with mongodb, you may need to look up,

• Django-nonrel
• Django-MongoEngine

Also, you may need to look up Django documentation for multiple databases

Answer 2

MongoEngine does not support all Django contrib modules directly. If your projects dont need them (unlikely) you can use mongoengine directly. Otherwise you can also try

• djongo

Which seems to work fine with the latest Django version.