Cache, Session, ViewState and Application

[LeAnne]

My question is to do with scalability and the location for storate of cache,
session, viewstate and application data.

Application - Data is stored in memory (in process)
Session - Data is stored in memory (in process or out of process)
- can be configured to store the session data in sql server (which relates
to my question)
ViewState - Page (but can be modified to overwrite the storage mechanism to
store viewstate else where, esp Sesssion)
Cache - Data is stored in memory (in process)


Considering the above (if i'm not wrong), storing data in session state in
web farms with the session data stored in sql server is the best and right
option.
So that if the first request is processed by computer A, and some data is
set in the session, then if the next request by the same user is processed
by computer b the session info will be available (as its stored in sql
server).

What about if information is stored in the cache???
I.e. if in the first request the page stores some info in the cache
(computer A), and the next request is processed by computer B, then WOULD
the cache information be available????

Where is the cache data stored??
In process or out of process??
Can this storage location be configured?

 

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You could also consider storing (small amounts of) data in cookies. The
cookies are stored in the browser, and are sent along in every request.

The cache is stored in-process. AFAIK it cant be stored anywhere else.

If you for instance stored a database result in the cache, and the cache
would be stored in the database, that would be rather useless, right?

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

Considering the above (if i'm not wrong), storing data in session state in

web farms with the session data stored in sql server is the best and right
option.

I am no fan of these blanket statements. Stateserver does outperform sql
server for session storage all things considered so sql server is not always
the best and right option

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