Better Feature Comparison to Promote Index and Deque more

[grantjenks]

I need to do more to promote diskcache.Index and diskcache.Deque. Good to do some feature comparisons with:

• ZODB -- http://www.zodb.org/en/latest/
• ldtable -- https://github.com/Jwink3101/ldtable (has benchmarks!)
• klepto -- https://pypi.org/project/klepto/
• dataset -- https://dataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html
• buzhug -- http://buzhug.sourceforge.net/
• sqlitedict -- https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/sqlitedict
• pickleDB -- https://pythonhosted.org/pickleDB/index.html
• shelve -- https://docs.python.org/3/library/shelve.html
• TinyDB -- https://tinydb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• CodernityDB -- http://labs.codernity.com/codernitydb/
  • Benchmarks: http://labs.codernity.com/codernitydb/speed.html
• sqlite3 -- https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html
• redis -- https://redis.io/clients#python
• gadfly -- http://gadfly.sourceforge.net/
• KirbyBase -- https://pypi.org/project/KirbyBase/
• dbm -- https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html
• joblib.Memory -- https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
• SQLAlchemy -- https://www.sqlalchemy.org/
• MongoDB -- https://api.mongodb.com/python/
• pandas

[aoyal]

Any updates on this?

[grantjenks]

Nope. Pull request welcome.

[grantjenks]

Features

• Persistent? Yes/No
• Thread-safe? Yes/No
• Process-safe? Yes/No
• Backend? Memory/Filesystem/SQLite/Redis/SQLAlchemy/etc.
• Docs? None/Readme/Extensive
• Tests? Yes/No
• Coverage? Yes/No
• Stress? Yes/No
• Serialization? Pickle/JSON/etc.
• Benchmarks? Yes/No
• Timings for get/set/delete
• Atomic? Yes/No
• Data Types? Mapping (Ordered, Sorted)/Deque/etc.
• Eviction Policies? LRU/LFU/MRU/LRS/Random/Dummy/Infinite
• Vacuum? Automatic/Manual
• Python? 2/3/PyPy/Jython
• CI Tests? None/Travis/AppVeyor/etc.
• Sources? GitHub/SourceForge
• Structure? Document/Relational/Key-Value
• SQL? Yes/No
• Last release? Date
• License? Apache2/GPL/etc.
• Platforms? *nix/Windows
• Pure-Python? Yes/No
• Server? Yes/No
• Goal? Database/ORM/KV Store/etc.
• Can be pickled? (Important for multiprocessing module)
• Supports process forking? (Important for multiprocessing)
• Metadata?
• Web Framework Support? Django, Flask, Pyramid, Plone

[grantjenks]

Created pull request #88

Need to feature Index and Deque data types more prominently.

[grantjenks]

Fixed at 024c4d9