There are a whole slew of Apache::Session modules to let you
do the storage of sessions any way you want:
Just pick the one best suited to your needs. IPC or MemoryStore
is probably fastest, but probably won't work if your
session maintenance needs extend across servers. DBI is
probably the most rock-solid (sessions would presist if your
server crashed), but also slower
because it has to go to the DB to get and store the session
stuff. Daemon is probably fast, and works well if you
need to span hosts, but (like IPC) you would loose
your sessions if your server crashed.