Session Management with MySQL

How to increase performance, scalability and security within a Session Management architecture using MySQL

As the web continues to provide one of the most cost-effective ways for businesses to market and sell their goods & services, we will continue to see the investment in web-based applications rise. An inherent characteristic about the web and one of the most common technical issues businesses face when designing and maintaining their web infrastructure, is addressing the stateless interaction between the user’s browser and the web server from which the pages are requested. This stateless interaction may be excellent for viewing pages at random or clicking through hyper links, however, many web applications require knowledge of a user’s interactions and current state on the website, as in online banking or ecommerce.

The inability to properly store and access security credentials or reliably add and remove items that may have been placed in a virtual shopping cart, for example, can lead to an end result that is disastrous or unfeasible. In this paper we explore how MySQL and MySQL Cluster can be used as part of a cost-effective, high-performance, open-source solution for database–centric session management.

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