The goal is not to embed Django inside another system, but to demonstrate that Django ORM can already act as a lightweight, standalone data access layer.

The Django ORM is and remains best in class. I’ve seen recent approaches to replicate it without having to pull in the weight of the main framework. That’s laudable but it will take a long time before something like that gains a similar amount of heft in mindshare, tooling and documentation.

https://www.paulox.net/2026/02/20/django-orm-standalone-database-inspectdb-query/