Django multiple caches backends

Question

I want to use multiple caching engines in one django project. In example I use sorl.thumbnail, that generated many sql queries to get/set thumbnail for model image. For caching this queries I use memcached backend. But, other caches stopped working, I mean template caching with {% cache ... %}, and also via API cache.get(), cache.set(). I want to be something like this

CACHES = {
'default': {
    'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
    'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
    },
'filebased': {
    'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',

    }

}

How can I use 'filebased' cache in template? Because {% cache %} uses memcached backend, and it produces many queries, especially using trees (django-mptt)

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '11 at 11:42

Via the API you can do this :

from django.core import cache
filebased_cache = cache.get_cache('filebased')
filebased_cache.set('blah', 1)

I'm afraid the template cache doesn't provide a way to use another than the default. You probably have to write your own if you want to do this.

Django multiple caches backends

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