Nice! it is good to see past blind spots e.g. "you must write this kind of app in this kind of language, pure Python is high level it is only for glue". I would

Nice! it is good to see past blind spots e.g. "you must write this kind of app in this kind of language, pure Python is high level it is only for glue". I wouldn't have thought to do a project like this because of all of those kinds of heuristics. And as other have said, a hackable DB in the same language as the app can have a lot of advantages.