Differences between pylibmc, dbm, and memcached in dogpile.cache

Question

I am new to caching in Python and unable to understand the differences between dogpile.cache.dbm, dogpile.cache.pylibmc, and dogpile.cache.memcached. Could someone please explain it?

Answer 1

dogpile.cache has unified interface for different caching backends – meaning that your data can be stored in different places, while library will provide you same functionality for all of them.

• dbm is for generic database backend
• pylibmc is for memcached via pylibmc client
• memcached is for same memcached system, but through different python driver – python-memchached

You can see all available backends in documentation