Django default cache

Question

I'm importing and using cache as this:

from django.core.cache import cache
cache.add('a','b',60)

I haven't defined any settings for the cache in settings.py ,then where does this cache come from and where is it stored.

Django documentation says: "This object is equivalent to caches['default']", but what is the default ?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 14 '19 at 12:23

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In https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/cache/#local-memory-caching says:

Local-memory caching

This is the default cache if another is not specified in your settings file

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edited Feb 14 '19 at 12:23

phoenix

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answered Jul 31 '14 at 06:46

obayhan

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To add on to this, local memory caching is per process. So, this cache wont work for all the instances of your application. Only for the current one. – xssChauhan Oct 03 '17 at 09:02

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 30 '17 at 17:43

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Empirically

>>> from django.conf import settings
>>> settings.CACHES
{'default': {'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache'}}
>>>

answered Nov 30 '17 at 17:43

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 09 '23 at 05:23

By default, Local-memory caching is used which is one of django caches.

So, because Local-memory caching is default, you don't need to write the code for Local-memory caching to "settings.py" as shown below unless you use multiple local memory caches:

# "settings.py"

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
        'LOCATION': 'unique-snowflake',
    }
}

Django default cache

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