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Consistent and scalable cache replication for multi-tier J2EE applications

Authors:

Francisco Perez-Sorrosal,

Marta Patiño-Martinez,

Ricardo Jimenez-Peris,

Bettina KemmeAuthors Info & Claims

MIDDLEWARE2007: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware

Pages 328 - 347

Published: 26 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Data centers are the most critical infrastructure of companies demanding higher and higher levels of quality of service (QoS) in terms of availability and scalability. At the core of data centers are multi-tier architectures providing service to applications. Replication is heavily used in this infrastructure for either availability or scalability but typically not for both combined. Additionally, most approaches replicate a single tier, making the non-replicated tiers potential bottlenecks and single points of failure. In this paper, we present a novel approach that provides both availability and scalability for multi-tier applications. The approach uses a replicated cache that takes into account both the application server tier (middle-tier) and the database (back-end). The underlying replicated cache protocol fully embeds the replication logic in the application server. The protocol exhibits good scalability as shown by our evaluation based on the new industrial benchmark for J2EE multi-tier systems, SPECjAppServer.

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MIDDLEWARE2007: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware

November 2007

450 pages

ISBN:3540767770

Editors:
Renato Cerqueira
PUC-Rio, Department of Informatics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Roy H. Campbell
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, Siebel Center for Computer Science, Urbana, IL

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Fernandes SCachopo JLopes CFisher K(2011)Strict serializability is harmlessProceedings of the ACM international conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications companion10.1145/2048147.2048221(257-276)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2048147.2048221

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