Storm is a Python programming

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for object-relational mapping between one or more SQL

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and Python objects. It allows Python developers to formulate complex queries spanning multiple database tables to support dynamic storage and retrieval of object information.

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and

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support is built into Storm, and the

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allows for support for others. Storm also supports the Django and

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s natively.

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support is planned for the .20 release.

Development

Storm was developed at Canonical Ltd. in Python for use in the Launchpad and

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applications and subsequently released in 2007 as free software. The project is

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and released under the

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and contributors are required to assign copyrights to Canonical. Version control is done in bazaar and issue tracking in Launchpad.Canonical's contributor agreement http://www.canonical.com/contributors Retrieved 24 May 2012

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Storm (Software) Canonical (company) Computer libraries Free computer libraries Object-relational mapping Python (programming language) libraries

Development

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