8 Django packages that implement caching

No effort, no worry, maximum performance.
Django-cachalot

cache django performance python

 

Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models through the ORM.

git clone git://github.com/django-cache-machine/django-cache-machine.git
cd django-cache-machine
pip install -r requirements/py3.txt  # or py2.txt for Python 2
python run_tests.py

 

 

Django-cacheops

Django-cacheops - Python

1.6k

A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.

Using pip:

$ pip install django-cacheops

# Or from github directly
$ pip install git+https://github.com/Suor/django-cacheops.git@master
caching django orm python

 

Django-memoize

Django-memoize - Python

115

An implementation of memoization technique for Django

 

An ORM cache for Django.

 

Django-redis-cache/

Django-redis-cache - Python

1k

A Redis cache backend for django

# When using TCP connections
CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
        'LOCATION': [
            '<host>:<port>',
            '<host>:<port>',
            '<host>:<port>',
        ],
        'OPTIONS': {
            'DB': 1,
            'PASSWORD': 'yadayada',
            'PARSER_CLASS': 'redis.connection.HiredisParser',
            'CONNECTION_POOL_CLASS': 'redis.BlockingConnectionPool',
            'CONNECTION_POOL_CLASS_KWARGS': {
                'max_connections': 50,
                'timeout': 20,
            },
            'MAX_CONNECTIONS': 1000,
            'PICKLE_VERSION': -1,
        },
    },
}

# When using unix domain sockets
# Note: ``LOCATION`` needs to be the same as the ``unixsocket`` setting
# in your redis.conf
CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
        'LOCATION': '/path/to/socket/file',
        'OPTIONS': {
            'DB': 1,
            'PASSWORD': 'yadayada',
            'PARSER_CLASS': 'redis.connection.HiredisParser',
            'PICKLE_VERSION': 2,
        },
    },
}

# For Master-Slave Setup, specify the host:port of the master
# redis-server instance.
CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
        'LOCATION': [
            '<host>:<port>',
            '<host>:<port>',
            '<host>:<port>',
        ],
        'OPTIONS': {
            'DB': 1,
            'PASSWORD': 'yadayada',
            'PARSER_CLASS': 'redis.connection.HiredisParser',
            'PICKLE_VERSION': 2,
            'MASTER_CACHE': '<master host>:<master port>',
        },
    },
}

 

Johnny-cache/

Johnny-cache - Python

304

johnny cache django caching framework

 

Python-diskcache/

Python-diskcache - Python

1.4k

Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python.

Features

  • Pure-Python
  • Fully Documented
  • Benchmark comparisons (alternatives, Django cache backends)
  • 100% test coverage
  • Hours of stress testing
  • Performance matters
  • Django compatible API
  • Thread-safe and process-safe
  • Supports multiple eviction policies (LRU and LFU included)
  • Keys support "tag" metadata and eviction
  • Developed on Python 3.10
  • Tested on CPython 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10
  • Tested on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
  • Tested using GitHub Actions
In [1]: import pylibmc
In [2]: client = pylibmc.Client(['127.0.0.1'], binary=True)
In [3]: client[b'key'] = b'value'
In [4]: %timeit client[b'key']

10000 loops, best of 3: 25.4 µs per loop

In [5]: import diskcache as dc
In [6]: cache = dc.Cache('tmp')
In [7]: cache[b'key'] = b'value'
In [8]: %timeit cache[b'key']

100000 loops, best of 3: 11.8 µs per loop
cache filesystem key-value-store persistence python