A new form of caching, namely application-level caching, has been recently employed in
web applications to improve their performance and increase scalability. It consists of the …

While Web applications serve personal needs and business functions almost in every area,
the responsiveness and performance of Web applications is the key factor to their success …

Online data-intensive services parallelize query execution across distributed software
components. Interactive response time is a priority, so online query executions return …

Latency and cost of Internet-based services are encouraging the use of application-level
caching to continue satisfying users' demands, and improve the scalability and availability of …

Online data-intensive (OLDI) services use anytime algorithms to compute over large
amounts of data and respond quickly. Interactive response times are a priority, so OLDI …

Meeting performance and scalability requirements while delivering services is a critical
issue in web applications. Recently, latency and cost of Internet‐based services are …

It is always desired to improve the response time from cloud servers, which deliver contents
without buffering. As the penetration of mobile/fog devices is increasing, the limits of cellular …

Query intensive applications augment a Relational Database Management System
(RDBMS) with a middle-tier cache to enhance performance. An example is memcached in …

This paper compares the performance of an SQL solution that implements a relational data
model with a document store named MongoDB. We report on the performance of a single …

Recently, grids and pervasive systems have been drawing increasing attention in order to
coordinate large-scale resources enabling access to small and smart devices. In this paper …