Middle-tier database caching for e-business

Qiong Luo, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, C. Mohan, Hamid Pirahesh, Honguk Woo, Bruce G. Lindsay, Jeffrey F. Naughton

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Abstract

While scaling up to the enormous and growing Internet population with unpredictable usage patterns, E-commerce applications face severe challenges in cost and manageability, especially for database servers that are deployed as those applications' backends in a multi-tier configuration. Middle-tier database caching is one solution to this problem. In this paper, we present a simple extension to the existing federated features in DB2 UDB, which enables a regular DB2 instance to become a DBCache without any application modification. On deployment of a DBCache at an application server, arbitrary SQL statements generated from the unchanged application that are intended for a backend database server, can be answered: at the cache, at the backend database server, or at both locations in a distributed manner. The factors that determine the distribution of workload include the SQL statement type, the cache content, the application requirement on data freshness, and cost-based optimization at the cache. We have developed a research prototype of DBCache, and conducted an extensive set of experiments with an E-Commerce benchmark to show the benefits of this approach and illustrate tradeoffs in caching considerations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2002
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages600-611
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)1581134975, 9781581134971
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Jun 2002
Externally publishedYes
Event2002 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2002 - Madison, United States
Duration: 3 Jun 20026 Jun 2002

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2002

Conference

Conference2002 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2002
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMadison
Period3/06/026/06/02

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