Rick_db Alternatives

rick_db reviews and mentions

• New web framework for Python in development
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023

  I forgot to add that most of my "custom" implementations are also open-source, to avoid repeating the same boilerplate over and over at different places. Its not "pythonic", and it is at varying degrees of maturity, and honestly, they are mostly for internal use in my projects (documentation is incomplete, interfaces may change, etc), but if you want have a look:

  https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick_db - postgresql query builder & object mapper - it is built around the concept of pure data objects (no indirect references do open resources) that can represent application data between layers; It also features a forward-only migration manager;

  https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick - plumbing, validation & assorted logic - provides service locators, registries, containers (including dependency injection); validators, forms & request validation (with support for laravel-style validation chains), and a bunch of other stuff;

  https://github.com/oddbit-project/pokie - flask-based web meta-framework, focused on REST api design, that brings components from the other two projects into an modular applicational framework;

• Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2021

  That is basically the description of an object mapper, with all the guarantees of an object mapper :). It seems if you actually use the query builder as such, no guarantees exist.

  I'm pretty picky regarding query builders and ORM's, to the extent of having written several of them over the years, in different languages (both dynamic and strong typed, unfortunately closed-source). I'm a strong advocate of schema-first design, and usually a query builder will allow you to design your queries explicitly, but having some internal behaviors (such as string concatenation, identifier quoting and automatic in-order separation of parameters and values to be bound) taken care of. As good examples of this, I'd mention golang's goqu (https://github.com/doug-martin/goqu) and - to some extent - C# SqlKata (https://sqlkata.com/). Following my frustrations with Python ORMs, I built my own toy project, sort-of-in-beta, called rickdb (https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick_db).