Playhouse

The playhouse namespace contains numerous extensions to Peewee. These include vendor-specific database extensions, high-level abstractions to simplify working with databases, and tools for low-level database operations and introspection.

Vendor extensions

• SQLite extensions
  • Full-text search (FTS3/4/5)
  • BM25 ranking algorithm implemented as SQLite C extension, backported to FTS4
  • Virtual tables and C extensions
  • Closure tables
  • JSON extension support
  • LSM1 (key/value database) support
  • BLOB API
  • Online backup API
• APSW extensions: use Peewee with the powerful APSW SQLite driver.
• SQLCipher: encrypted SQLite databases.
• SqliteQ: dedicated writer thread for multi-threaded SQLite applications. More info here.
• Postgresql extensions
  • JSON and JSONB
  • HStore
  • Arrays
  • Server-side cursors
  • Full-text search
• MySQL extensions

High-level libraries

• Extra fields
  • Compressed field
  • PickleField
• Shortcuts / helpers
  • Model-to-dict serializer
  • Dict-to-model deserializer
• Hybrid attributes
• Signals: pre/post-save, pre/post-delete, pre-init.
• Dataset: high-level API for working with databases popuarlized by the project of the same name.
• Key/Value Store: key/value store using SQLite. Supports smart indexing, for Pandas-style queries.

Database management and framework support

• pwiz: generate model code from a pre-existing database.
• Schema migrations: modify your schema using high-level APIs. Even supports dropping or renaming columns in SQLite.
• Connection pool: simple connection pooling.
• Reflection: low-level, cross-platform database introspection
• Database URLs: use URLs to connect to database
• Test utils: helpers for unit-testing Peewee applications.
• Flask utils: paginated object lists, database connection management, and more.