Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications
January/February 2007 (vol. 11 no. 1)
pp. 60-66
Developers often use replication and caching mechanisms to enhance Web application performance. The authors present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of state-of-the art replication and caching techniques used to host Web applications. Their analysis shows that selecting the best mechanism depends heavily on data workload and requires a careful review of the application's characteristics. They also propose a technique for Web practitioners to compare different mechanisms' performance on their own.
Index Terms:
Web cache, system performance, data replication
Citation:
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen, Gustavo Alonso, "Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 60-66, Jan./Feb. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIC.2007.3