Julien Roy julien@jroy.ca Django-MySQL extends Django's built-in MySQL and MariaDB support their specific features not available on other databases. What kind of features? Includes: QuerySet extensions: 'Smart' iteration - chunked pagination across a large queryset approx_count for quick estimates of count() Query hints Quick pt-visual-explain of the underlying query Model fields: MariaDB Dynamic Columns for storing dictionaries Comma-separated fields for storing lists and sets 'Missing' fields: differently sized BinaryField/TextField classes, BooleanFields represented by BIT(1) ORM expressions for over 20 MySQL-specific functions A new cache backend that makes use of MySQL's upsert statement and does compression Status variable inspection and utility methods Named locks for easy locking of e.g. external resources Table lock manager for hard to pull off data migrations To see them all, check out the exposition at https://django-mysql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/exposition.html . Adam Johnson me@adamj.eu https://github.com/adamchainz/django-mysql/issues https://github.com/adamchainz/django-mysql/releases https://django-mysql.readthedocs.io/ django-mysql adamchainz/django-mysql