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Which are the Best 3 ORMs for Database Homework?

An ORM allows you to access a database in a manner that matches the normal syntax of the programming language you are using. It stands for Object Relational Mapper (databases are relational, and Python uses objects, so it concerns how to transform database entries into Python objects and the reverse). If you want database homework help using any of the following ORMs or even just raw SQL we can help you. One advantage of an ORM is that it isolates differences between the different databases so that you can change which database engine you are using from the built in SQLite, to MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Probably the most popular of the Python ORMs is SQLAlchemy. You define a class for each table with an attribute of __tablename__ for the name of the table, and define a series of fields of type Column or relationship to declare a connection between different tables. You then create a database session, where you can add new records and commit them to the database, and you also use the session to perform queries. To specify queries that refer to other tables you use a join method in the query, so the syntax is closer to SQL than the other 2 ORMs.
The Django ORM is widely used since Django is the most used full stack web back end that is fully batteries included. Django supports templates, a user admin, user authentication and is extendible with applications. Django’s ORM uses inspection so you can define models (database tables) easily, and it also tracks changes to the models. Rather than using a generic Column type, you use model.CharField, model.TextField, etc. A querymanager is used to query the model, and by default it is the name of the model.objects although you can define your own. The get method returns a single instance, and you use filter to select a collection of objects. You use keywords to filter, for example filter(name = “John”), you can use filter(name__contains = “John”) to search for a name where John is part, so Johnson for example.
The Pony ORM is similar to Django but rather than using the type, you use Required, Optional or Set for each field. You use a db_sesssion decorator for a function that commits to the database when the method completes, or rollbacks the transaction if there is an exception. The ORM uses generators to perform queries, so use select(p for p in Person if p.age >= 18) to select all the adults in the Person table.

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