HttpContext.Cache vs Database question

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What are the benefits and disadvantages to using HttpContext.Cache property. vs using a database? I had many post about database questions and such.

Posted 11-Jul-11 8:14am

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Updated 11-Jul-11 11:45am

Keith Barrow

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11T14:49:00

One obvious benefit of a DB is that your data is not all in memory, it's on the DB server. One obvious benefit of caching data is that it's in memory already, as opposed to running SQL that needs to do joins and filtering, etc. However, in general, the benefits/costs depend on the nature of your web app, the nature if your data, and how many users you expect to have.