Tornado Sees Some NoSQL Activity

Tornado, the non-blocking web server and tools open sourced by FriendFeed before their acquisition, seems to get some NoSQL activity. While Django is leading the way in the Python world, judging by the NoSQL projects happening around Node.js, one could say that Tornado, with its non-blocking architecture, may be an interesting alternative.

Thomas Pelletier has ☞ a blog post about a simple websocket + Tornado + Redis Pub/Sub protocol integration:

The principle is very simple: when your user loads the page, she is automatically added to a list of “listeners”. An independent thread is running: it listens for messages from Redis with the subscribe command, and send a message through Websocket to every registered ”listener”. In this example, the user can send a message to herself with a simple AJAX-powered form, which calls a view with a payload (the message), and the view publish it via the publish command of Redis.

This is basically a web chat! If you want to have fun, you can then add a roster, with a presence system, authentication etc…

There’s also a ☞ GitHub project called Trombi:

Trombi is an asynchronous CouchDB client for Tornado.

And I’m pretty sure there are other projects I’ve missed (but you can leave a comment to add them to the list).

Original title and link for this post: Tornado Sees Some NoSQL Activity (published on the NoSQL blog: myNoSQL)