Re: Python versus Other Languages using PostgreSQL

On 05/08/2017 05:45 PM, Paul Hughes wrote:
> Thank you for the links. I'm glad there are other languages that are
> working with PostgreSQL. My question still remains though - why is it
> that all the largest web platforms that have used PostgreSQL
> *specifically* choose Python as their back-end language? Why are
> Postgres and Python so married, in the same way that Node.js is largely
> married to MondogDB?

I think you are going to have name frameworks, because AFAIK Drupal uses
PHP, Ruby on Rails uses Rails and so on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_frameworks

As to why Postgres and Python seem to be attached I would say that is
because about the time people started looking for an alternative to
MySQL/PHP, Python reached the state and breadth of distribution to
became the language to pair with Postgres.

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> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
> <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 05/08/2017 02:26 PM, Paul Hughes wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that most of the largest web platforms that use
> PostgreSQL as
> their primary database, also use Python as their primary back-end
> language. Yet, according to every benchmark I could find over
> the last
> couple of years, back-end languages like PHP, HHVM, and Node.JS
> outperform Python by 2x to 8x!
>
>
> Postgres does not really care what you use to pull data from it.
> There are many libraries across many languages that you can use.
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