Django with custom, non-SQL service to store models?

Question

Can I have a custom service providing the storage of the models I use in Django? That service would not be speaking SQL.

I would like to build a web frontend to a system that consists of multiple services linked with a network based IPC, one of which provides an interface to commonly used, persistent objects (stored in a database).

The real question here is not whether it's possible but whether it would make sense. For example, if I end up inheriting models.Model and overwriting every single method, skipping all the rest of django.db, I guess it wouldn't.

The object service might even end up being implemented in Django, too, but the communication between it and the web frontend would not be using SQL.

Answer 1

You might take a look at An introduction to using couchdb with django. Dunno if connecting to CouchDB is directly something that interests you, but this is a pretty good example of how to use django to connect to a RESTful webservice.