High Availability and Scalability Support for Web Applications

Authors: Louis Rilling, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian and Guillaume Pierre.
Source: In Proceedings of the International IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), January 2007.

Abstract

A database query caching technique, GlobeCBC, can be used to improve the scalability of Web applications. This paper addresses the availability issues in GlobeCBC. Even though high availability is achieved by adding more resources, proper algorithms must be designed to ensure that the clients receive consistent responses amidst failures of the edge and origin servers. We present lightweight algorithms to detect and correct server failures while providing read-your-writes consistency. They exploit the fact that the query workload of Web applications is based on a fixed set of read and write templates. We show that these algorithms incur very low overhead using several microbenchmarks and a complete Web application benchmark.

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Bibtex Entry

@InProceedings{rilling2007,
  author =       {Louis Rilling and Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
                  and Guillaume Pierre},
  title =        {High Availability and Scalability Support for 
                  Web Applications},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on 
                  Applications and the Internet},
  year = 	 {2007},
  address = 	 {Hiroshima, Japan},
  month = 	 jan,
  note = 	 {\url{http://www.globule.org/publi/HASSWA_saint2007.html}}
}