Show HN: Python DiskCache – Django Compatible Cache Library

Author here. I created this because the filebased cache backend that ships with Django is really broken for caches with more than 1,000 keys. The design of DiskCache is based on SQLite and the filesystem which is a pretty solid combination. Frequent cache reads are stored in shared memory-mapped files while remaining thread and process safe. That makes lookups faster than networked options like memcached and redis.