cachetools VS DiskCache

Compare cachetools vs DiskCache and see what are their differences.

cachetools

Extensible memoizing collections and decorators (by tkem)

DiskCache

Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python. (by grantjenks)
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cachetools DiskCache
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6.7 4.5
15 days ago 9 days ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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cachetools

Posts with mentions or reviews of cachetools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-08.

DiskCache

Posts with mentions or reviews of DiskCache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cachetools and DiskCache you can also consider the following projects:

Beaker - WSGI middleware for sessions and caching

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

flask-cache-redis - :fire: Implementation of API Caching with Flask, Redis and Docker

dogpile.cache

python-diskcache - Persistent dict, backed by sqlite3 and pickle, multithread-safe.

Chest - Simple spill-to-disk dictionary

Zict - Useful Mutable Mappings

HermesCache

Cachier - Persistent, stale-free, local and cross-machine caching for Python functions.

cashier - Persistent caching for python functions