Paper Info
Title
J2EE infrastructure scalability and throughput estimation
Abstract
ECperf, the widely recognized industry standard J2EE benchmark, has attracted a large number of results submissions and their subsequent publication. However, ECperf places little restriction on the hardware platform, operating systems and databases utilized in the benchmarking process. This, combined with the existence of only two primary metrics, makes it difficult to accurately compare the results, or the performance of the Application Server products themselves. By mining the full-disclosure archives for trends and correlations we have discovered that J2EE technology is very scalable with increasing middle-tier resources, as long as the database has sufficient resources to prevent it becoming a bottleneck. Other observed trends include, a linear correlation between middle-tier total processing power and throughput, as well as between J2EE Application Server license costs and throughput. However, the results clearly indicate that there is an increasing cost per user with increasing capacity systems. Finally, the correlation between middle-tier processing power and throughput, combined with results obtained from a different 'lighter-weight' benchmark, facilitates an estimate of throughput for different types of J2EE applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/974036.974040
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
industry standard j2ee benchmark,scalability,middle-tier processing power,results submission,j2ee,enterprise java beans ejb,j2ee infrastructure scalability,middle-tier total processing power,application server product,throughput,throughput estimation,ecperf benchmark,increasing cost,j2ee application,j2ee application server license,middle-tier resource,j2ee technology,application server,operating system
Bottleneck,Linear correlation,Computer science,Real-time computing,Throughput,Benchmarking,Industry standard,License,Scalability,Distributed computing,Application server
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
31
3
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Brebner112816.84
Jeffrey Gosper2172.45