DiskCache (via) Grant Jenks built DiskCache as an alternative caching backend for Django (also usable without Django), using a SQLite database on disk. The performance numbers are impressive—it even beats memcached in microbenchmarks, due to avoiding the need to access the network.
The source code (particularly in core.py) is a great case-study in SQLite performance optimization, after five years of iteration on making it all run as fast as possible.
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