TurboGears is a Rapid Web Application development with a slightly different focus. Sure we can scale down to solve the simple problems, and create single database backed dynamic web pages.
And we’ll always try to be a great web framework for doing simple things, but other modern frameworks have focused very much on this market, and have not served those with more complex needs well. TurboGears 2 is designed to be a web-application framework suitable for solving complex industrial strength problems.
Out of the box, TG2 has a transaction manager to help with multi-dababase deployments, SQLAlchemy provides one of the most robust object relational management systems available in any language, and we’ve seen it concur complex issues with legacy databases, sharding, master-slave replication, and multiple integration databases. Lots of projects start out small, and perhaps other ORM’s will do just fine for them, but when you grow beyond a certain point either in traffic or in complexity, you’ll sure be happy to have chosen SQLAlchemy.
