Indeed. I recently worked on a legacy project where I don't have the luxury to modify the old database. I ended up using Peewee [0] to access the old database, in conjunction with the normal Django based database and even wrote a simple model that use Peewee [1]. Everything works, even Django Rest Framework associated with the model.

[0]: http://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/ [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57602206/mysql-gone-away...