Scalable Strong Consistency for Web Applications
Authors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen
Source: in Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, Semptember 2004.
Abstract
| Web application workloads are often characterized by a large number of unique read requests and a significant fraction of write requests. Hosting these applications drives the need for the next generation CDN architecture that does more than caching the results of Web applications but replicates both the application code and its underlying data. We propose the design of a system that guarantees strong consistency for Web applications with high scalability. The proposed system is based on partial replication, where data units are replicated only to servers that access them often. This reduces the consistency overhead as updates are sent to a reduced number of servers. We explore the design space of this system, find the key issues that need to be addressed to build it and propose solutions to solve them. We further show that the proposed algorithms offer significant performance gains compared to existing solutions for a wide range of Web access patterns. |
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Bibtex Entry
@Misc{swami2004d,
author = {Swaminathan Sivasubramanian and Guillaume Pierre
and Maarten van Steen},
title = {Scalable Strong Consistency for Web Applications},
month = mar,
year = {2004},
howpublished = {Submitted for publication},
note = {\url{http://www.globule.org/publi/SSCWA_sigops2004.html}}
}
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