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July 5, 2010

Support for Django 1.2 now available!

Description

This is a Google Code project allowing SQL Anywhere to be used as a backend database for the Django web framework. It is built upon the Python SQL Anywhere Database Interface.

What is SQL Anywhere?

SQL Anywhere is a fully-transactional RDBMS with enterprise-caliber performance and features. It is availble on a wide range of platforms including Linux, Windows, Solaris, OS X, AIX and HP-UX. SQL Anywhere includes advanced features such as immediate refresh materialized views, dynamic cache sizing, snapshot isolation, built-in full text indexing, row-level locking, online backups, event scheduling, and remote data access to other RDBMS. It also include a comprehensive set of tools that allow administration, modelling, debugging, monitoring, and profiling of the database. SQL Anywhere is over 15 years old, and has over 20 million deployed seats.

The SQL Anywhere Web Edition is a free, full-featured version for development and deployment of browser-based applications.

What is Required?

The following software is required to use the SQL Anywhere database backend for Django.

SQL Anywhere 11.0.1
Python 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6
The Python SQL Anywhere Database Interface
Django version 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2

How Do I Get Started?

See our GettingStarted wiki page for instructions on setting up SQL Anywhere as a database backend for Django.

License

This package is licensed under the terms of the New BSD License. Please see the LICENSE file in the package download for full details.

Feedback and Questions

For feedback on this project, or for general questions about using SQL Anywhere in a web environment, please use the SQL Anywhere Web Development forum. For general questions on SQL Anywhere and its usage, please use the sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general newsgroup.