Overview

indi-allsky's database is implemented via Flask & SQLAlchemy. indi-allsky is effectively a CLI Flask application. This permits heavy code reuse between the indi-allsky capture application and the web interface.

https://flask-sqlalchemy.readthedocs.io/

https://www.sqlalchemy.org/

indi-allsky Database Model

https://github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/blob/main/indi_allsky/flask/models.py

SQLAlchemy Object Relational Model

The SQLALchemy ORM is heavily utilized in indi-allsky. There are no raw SQL commands used to access the database.

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/orm/

Migrations

The Flask-Migrate python module is utilized to manage the database schema. Flask-Migrate is based on SQLAlchemy and Alembic. Occasionally, database design updates are made and those are handled as an Alembic database migrations.

https://flask-migrate.readthedocs.io/

https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/