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Valkey cache backend for Django

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Introduction

django-valkey is a BSD licensed, full featured Valkey cache and session backend for Django.

this project is a fork of the wonderful django-redis project. they wrote all the good codes.

Why use django-valkey?

  • Valkey is a free licenced and well maintained key/value database

  • Uses native valkey-py url notation connection strings

  • async support

  • Pluggable clients

  • Pluggable parsers

  • Pluggable serializers

  • Primary/secondary support in the default client

  • Comprehensive test suite

  • Used in production in several projects as cache and session storage

  • Supports infinite timeouts

  • Facilities for raw access to Valkey client/connection pool

  • Highly configurable (can emulate memcached exception behavior, for example)

  • Unix sockets supported by default

Requirements

User guide

Documentation

check out our Docs for a complete explanation

Installation

Install with pip:

python -m pip install django-valkey

Install with c bindings:

python -m pip install django-valkey[libvalkey]

Install 3rd party compression

python -m pip install django-valkey[lz4]
python -m pip install django-valkey[zstd]  # not needed since python 3.14
python -m pip install django-valkey[brotli]

Install with 3rd party serializers

python -m pip install django-valkey[msgpack]
python -m pip install django-valkey[msgspec]

Contribution

contribution rules are like other projects,being respectful and keeping the ethics. also make an issue before going through troubles of coding, someone might already be doing what you want to do.

Todo

  1. Fix the CI in cluster branch.

  2. Add cluster to documentations.

License

Copyright (v) 2024 Amirreza Sohrabi far
Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Andrey Antukh <niwi@niwi.nz>
Copyright (c) 2011 Sean Bleier

All rights reserved.

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3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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