I was looking at Microsoft Velocity and memcached to find a solution for some session management issues –
What is the difference between caching that is provided by Microsoft Velocity, memcached and session state management? I mean memcached and microsoft veolocity provide distributed caching capabilities… so using these to store session state would mean that session state would also be distributed .. Am i right in this assumption
Best Answer
The difference between caching an session state management is that caching is at the application level(caches data for all sessions). Also cache can timeout many times during a session. Use cache for holding frequently used information(i.e information from a lookup table). This way your application wont have to access your data source unnecessarily.