Model inheritance approach with Django's ORM

Question

I want to store events in a web application I am fooling around with and I feel quite unsure about the pros and cons of each respective approach - using inheritance extensiv

Answer 1

Flat is better than nested. I don't see that the "deep inheritance" is really buying you anything in this case: I'd go for the flatter model as a simpler, plainer design, with likely better performance characteristics and ease of access.