Local Storage, Session storage, Web storage, web database and cookies in HTML5
cookies, html, local-storage, session-storage, web-sql
Solution
HTML5 web storage is a generic umbrella term for the new client-side data storage options.
Local Storage is persistent and scoped to the domain. At the moment two flavors are usually mentioned:
- 'default': stores things in name/value pairs
- Web SQL (aka Web Database): uses an SQL database
Session Storage is non persistent and scoped only to the current window.
Cookies are the old school way of doing all of the above. Stores name/value pairs per domain.
Problem
What is the difference between these concepts, and when should I use one in particular? Does this listing also contain different names for the same general concept? - HTML5 local storage - HTML5 session storage - HTML5 web storage - HTML5 web database - Cookies