Support for HandlerSocket on MySQL backend

[Cal Leeming]

I'm not aware of any any current plans to implement HandlerSocket on MySQL backend in the core.

I'd like to suggest we open up talks into whether or not this would/should be included.

I'd love to see it for filter/get lookups, where fields specified all have indexes, and for it to do this behind the scenes, so no syntax modification is needed.

[Aymeric Augustin]

For those (like me) who haven't ever heard of HandlerSocket, it's an experimental effort to bring NoSQL capacities to MySQL. The best info I could get is a github repository where the README says:

The current version of HandlerSocket only works with GNU/Linux.

In my opinion this is a deal-breaker.

Given that Django doesn't have any support for NoSQL currently—see NoSqlSupport—and that HandlerSocket is an experimental/alpha project that works only on one platform, I will close the ticket.

If you want to see HandlerSocket support in Django, you could:

• develop it as a third-party project (for instance, as a custom database backend, something that Django supports very well), gather community support, and then bring the topic on django-developers,
• join the effort on NoSqlSupport,
• wait until HandlerSocket becomes stable and mainstream, and re-open this ticket.