Session State and Cache data?????

[DaveF]

What is the difference, and are there any good articles on this?

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Session state is user (session) specific while cache is global (same to all
sessions/users). Session also has different modes which impact on where
session state is persisted. (in memory i.e in-process, separate process,
database) This is to control the durability of sessions and so on for
example in case when application restarts when in-memory session state would
be lost. Cache data is also stored in-memory and it would be lost in case of
restart.

From programming perspective, their usage is similar. They are key/value
dictionaries/collections where you store/retrieve objects with a given key.

 

[Ben Strackany]

If you have ASP experience, it's a little like the Session object vs the
Application object.