django-mptt/django-mptt

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Django library that implements Modified Preorder Tree Traversal (MPTT) for storing and querying hierarchical data in relational databases. It stores pre-computed left/right/level/tree_id values on each row to make tree reads fast, at the cost of heavier writes.

Use cases

• store hierarchical data like categories or menus in Django
• query ancestor and descendant relationships efficiently
• render tree structures in Django templates
• manage threaded comments in a Django app
• reorder and move nodes within a tree hierarchy

When to choose

• you have an existing Django project already using django-mptt
• reads dominate over writes and you need fast subtree queries on older databases without recursive CTE support

When to avoid

• starting a new project — the README explicitly says the project is unmaintained
• your database supports recursive CTEs (prefer django-tree-queries)
• your workload is write-heavy with concurrent inserts, moves, or deletes
• you rely on bulk operations or raw SQL that bypass the tree update logic

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library · maturity maintenance

orm database databases web-development developer-tools python django mptt hierarchical-data tree-structure unmaintained

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