Django-GeoIP-Redis

Documentation available at Read the Docs.

Demo installation:

$ sudo apt-get install redis-server virtualenvwrapper
$ mkvirtualenv django-geoip-redis
$ git clone https://github.com/gotlium/django-geoip-redis.git
$ cd django-geoip-redis
$ pip install -r requirements/package.txt
$ python setup.py develop
$ cd demo
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python manage.py syncdb --noinput
$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py loaddata ../fixtures/db.json
$ python manage.py shell

>>> from geoip.geo import record_by_ip_as_dict
>>> print (record_by_ip_as_dict('91.195.136.52'))

If you want use native db for local development, you can add GEO_BACKEND = 'db' into local_settings.py

Performance:

• django-geoip-redis:

  • MySQL(SSD): 728 rps
  • SQLite(SSD): 46 rps
  • Redis: 3548 rps

• django-geoip(no isp, no provider):

  • MySQL(SSD): 855 rps
  • SQLite(SSD): 47 rps

• django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP(no isp, no provider, but C API):

  • standard: 4666 rps
  • memory: 73 rps
  • check: 4510 rps
  • index: 76 rps
  • mmap: 4425 rps

Tested on Ubuntu 12.04(x86_64), Django(1.6), uWSGI(1.0.3), Nginx(1.1.19) with Apache Benchmark:

$ ab -c 100 -n 1000 http://localhost/ip/91.195.136.52/

On tests used default configuration for Redis & MySQL without any modifications.

Demo page available here.

Compatibility:

• Python: 2.6, 2.7, 3.3
• Django: 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6