Title
Bottlenecks and Their Performance Implications in E-commerce Systems
Abstract
We present a detailed workload characterization of a multi-tiered system that hosts an e-commerce site. Using the TPC-W workload and via experimental measurements, we illustrate how workload characteristics affect system behavior and operation, focusing on the statistical properties of dynamic page generation. This analysis allows to identify bottlenecks and the system conditions under which there is degradation in performance. Consistent with the literature, we find that the distribution of the dynamic page generation is heavy-tailed, which is caused by the interaction of the database server with the storage system. Furthermore, by examining the queuing behavior at the database server, we present experimental evidence of the existence of statistical correlation in the distribution of dynamic page generation times, especially under high load conditions. We couple this observation with the existence (and switching) of bottlenecks in the system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-30471-5_21
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
TPC-W,bottleneck identification,workload characterization,query time distribution,autocorrelation
Bottleneck,Workload,Computer science,Computer data storage,CPU cache,Server,Queueing theory,Heavy-tailed distribution,Database server,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3293
0302-9743
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.89
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Zhang141422.77
Alma Riska268348.63
Erik Riedel31037142.99
Evgenia Smirni41857161.97