django-mongokit is the project you want to use if you want to connect your Django project to your MongoDB database via the pymongo Python wrapper. An alternative (dare I say competing alternative) is MongoEngine which is bridge between Django and straight to pymongo. The immediate difference you notice is the syntax. django-mongokit looks like MongoKit syntax and MongoEngine looks like Django ORM. They both accomplish pretty much the same thing. So, which one is fastest?
First of all, remember this? where I showed how django-mongokit sped past the SQL ORM like a lightning bullet. Well appears MongoEngine is even faster.
That's an average of 23% faster for all three operations!
Can you provide the script source you used for this benchmark ? What version of MongoKit did you used ? I'd like to see what can I do to improve MongoKit speed.
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Unfortunately upgrading to the latest version of MongoKit that doesn't generate indexes every time didn't help. MongoEngine is still faster.
If you want use a django implementation of mongodb give a look to http://github.com/aparo/django-mongodb-engine the performance are the same of mongoengine if you the mongodb manager. But you work in the django way.