Engineering High Performance Database-Driven E-commerce Web Sites through Dynamic Content Caching

Abstract

The fast growing demand for e-commerce brings a unique set of challenges to build a high performance e-commerce Web site both in technical terms and in business terms. To ensure the fast delivery of fresh dynamic content and engineer highly scalable e-commerce Web sites for special events or peak times continuously put heavy pressures on IT staffs due to complexity of current e-commerce applications. In this paper, we analyze issues related to engineering high performance database-driven e-commerce web sites including: (1) integration of caches, Web servers, application servers, and DBMS; and (2) tradeoff of deploying dynamic content caching versus not deploying. We describe available technology in the scope of Cache Portal project at NEC. We illustrate performance gains through our technology using an e-commerce Web site built based on some of the most popular components, such as Oracle DBMS, BEA WebLogic Application Server, and Apache Web server.KeywordsContent Delivery NetworkDynamic ContentCache ServerCache PageInternational World WideThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.