CGI::Session was originally written as a wrapper around Apache::Session. CGI::Session is more flexible and offers easier access to the session itself to store info in the actual session.

Whether the DB driver is important is twfold. If you need to only store a little information for a short period of time then use a FILE driver with either to reduce overhead. I use persistent sessions and store a lot of info on them, for me the DB makes more sense - we don't actually do a lot of session access but we store upwards of 50,000 sessions at any given time.

There is a shell for sriting a new storage module for CGI::Session, but I can offer you no advice - I have never written one.

jdtoronto