Chat application using django

Question

If i devlop a chat application using django will it have some performance problem? Can i do server push in django? I want to have PM and room discussions as well.

Answer 1

I released a Django app on Pypi and Github that provides a multi-user web chat. It's based on Gevent: works well in multithreaded environments, but not in pre-forked ones such as gunicorn running more than 1 worker. I'm just writing the documentation. The repo is: https://github.com/qubird/django-chatrooms

Answer 2

How about using tornado? I tried demo chat application of Tornado. And also Tornado claims to have a better performance than django.

Let me know your thoughts.

Answer 3

grono.net has chat and PMs (although there are no rooms) and is built on django. Performance is pretty well, so I believe you should be able achieve the same performance. It depends, on how much connections you are expecting. grono.net is pretty big and it uses some caching and server distribution to perform well. But it all is doable on Django.

Answer 4

I think for a chat application you can use other technologies, such as AMQP(RabbitMQ, etc), Comet, etc. But, for develop user profile, PMs, and other you can use Django.

Do not forget that performance still depends on server configuration (web server software, cache, db)