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with managed, backed up, replicated, and auto-patched MySQL instances. Cloud
SQL integrates with Google App Engine but can be used independently as well.

Object-Relational Mapping
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Often you might want to simplify accessing your data, and prefer a simple,
object oriented way to manipulate your data, instead of raw SQL queries.

This is solved by Object Relational Mapping (ORM) applications. Sometimes these
are integrated with your framework of choice, but you might use them without
general frameworks too. Probably, the most widely used stand-alone ORM written
for Python is `SQLAlchemy <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/>`_.

Database resources
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