If you must use Django, use it through an abstraction layer like this: https://adsharma.github.io/django-fquery/ https://adsharma.github.io/django-fquery/ You

If you must use Django, use it through an abstraction layer like this: https://adsharma.github.io/django-fquery/ https://adsharma.github.io/django-fquery/ Your models can be plain old python data classes, declaratively mapped to Django primitives.