Caching & Session Management
Top caching and session management use cases
Learn how organizations across industries use Couchbase's session caching and storage to improve their apps with quicker data access and to ensure reliable growth without hassle.
High tech
Speed up your apps with Couchbase's powerful caching. Get fast data access and stable session storage, making your high-tech applications more efficient.
Media and entertainment
Ensure seamless streaming and personalized experiences by efficiently handling spikes in streaming traffic with robust caching and session storage.
Travel and hospitality
Enhance travel apps with fast, reliable session storage and caching, ensuring quick bookings and a problem-free user experience even during peak times.
Telecom
Use fast and powerful caching to support continuous and rapid access to massive amounts of telecom data for real-time personalized service.
FAQs about session management for mobile app development
Get answers to the most common questions about using Couchbase for session caching and storage, optimizing performance, and scalability.
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What is session storage, and how does it differ from caching?
Session storage is temporary storage of user-specific data during a browsing session. Caching stores frequently accessed data to reduce the need to access the original source repeatedly.
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How does caching impact database performance?
Caching can improve database performance and scalability by reducing the number of operations hitting the database. By serving frequently accessed data from the cache, databases experience less load.
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Why is flexibility important for session storage?
Data flexibility and proper modeling enhance management of user-specific information by accommodating a variety of session attributes and optimizing storage, retrieval, and maintenance.
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How can a cache be cleared to keep data fresh?
TTL, or time-to-live, specifies how long data remains valid in a cache before it expires and needs to be refreshed or removed.