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January/February 2007 (Vol. 11, No. 1)
pp. 60-66
Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Vrije Universiteit
Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit
Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich
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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.
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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
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