Private Session State Store

Current version: 9.2

The Private Session State Store role is temporary storage for session data for active visitors, including metadata for active visitors and active visits for personalization.

Supported infrastructure

You can host the Private Session State Store role on:

  • SQL Server

  • Redis

  • Azure SQL

  • Azure Redis

Refer to the Sitecore compatibility table for compatible versions.

Reference structure

The Private Session State Store role can be referenced by the CD role only.

Illustration showing the Private Session State Store role's place in the Sitecore reference structure.

Referenced by

The Private Session State Store role is referenced by the following roles:

References

The Private Session State Store role does not reference other roles.

Privacy and security

The Private Session State Store role handles personal data in the following ways:

  • The private session data collected during a session includes interaction data and the devices used by the contact.

  • In Sitecore 9.2 and later, the contact ID is loaded into session state for performance reasons.

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