Lightning Components Developer Guide

What is the Lightning Component Framework?
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Creating Apps
App Overview
Designing App UI
Creating App Templates
Developing Secure Code
Styling Apps
Using JavaScript
JavaScript Cookbook
Using Apex
Controlling Access
Using Object-Oriented Development
Caching with Storage Service
Initializing Storage Service
Using the AppCache
Distributing Applications and Components
Debugging
Reference
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Caching with Storage Service

The Storage Service provides a powerful, simple-to-use caching infrastructure that enhances the user experience on the client. Client applications can benefit from caching data to reduce response times of pages by storing and accessing data locally rather than requesting data from the server. Caching is especially beneficial for high-performance, mostly connected applications operating over high latency connections, such as 3G networks.

The advantage of using the Storage Service instead of other caching infrastructures, such as Apple local storage for iOS devices, is that the Storage Service offers several types of storage through adapters. Storage can be persistent and secure. With persistent storage, cached data is preserved between user sessions in the browser. With secure storage, cached data is encrypted.

Storage Adapter Name Persistent Secure
SmartStore true true
IndexedDB true false
MemoryAdapter false true
SmartStore
(Persistent and secure) Provides a caching service that is only available for apps built with the Salesforce Mobile SDK. The Salesforce Mobile SDK enables developing mobile applications that integrate with Salesforce. You can use SmartStore with these mobile applications for caching data.
IndexedDB
(Persistent but not secure) Provides access to an API for client-side storage and search of structured data. For more information, see the Indexed Database API.
MemoryAdapter
(Not persistent but secure) Provides access to the JavaScript main memory space for caching data. The stored cache persists only per browser page. Browsing to a new page resets the cache.

The Storage Service selects a storage adapter on your behalf that matches the persistent and secure options you specify when initializing the service. For example, if you request a persistent and insecure storage service, the Storage Service returns the IndexedDB storage.

When you initialize storage, you can set certain options, such as the name, maximum cache size, and the default expiration time.

Server-side actions storage is the only currently supported type of storage. Storage for server-side actions caches action response values. The storage name must be actions.