DiskCache VS pylibmc

Compare DiskCache vs pylibmc and see what are their differences.

DiskCache

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

pylibmc

A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface from TangentOrg. (by lericson)
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DiskCache pylibmc
5 2
1,853 472
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0.0 0.0
26 days ago about 1 month ago
Python C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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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 2022-06-14.

pylibmc

Posts with mentions or reviews of pylibmc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-11.
  • Memcached on Heroku w/ Django : can't install pylibmc / memcacheify
    3 projects | /r/codehunter | 11 Apr 2022
    I've spent a lot of time on this and it's clearly beyond my newbie understanding/skills. I tried to install django-heroku-memcacheify with pip install, which throws errors. I tracked the problem down to pylibmc, which is causing all the problems. Here's one of the interesting parts of the error log:

What are some alternatives?

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

Beaker - WSGI middleware for sessions and caching

cachetools - Extensible memoizing collections and decorators

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

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

dogpile.cache

HermesCache

cashier - Persistent caching for python functions

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

django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models through the ORM.

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