Database systems have been driving dynamic websites since the early 1990s; nowadays,
even seemingly static websites employ a database back-end for personalization and …

About the Speaker: Dr. C. Mohan joined IBM Almaden Research Center in 1981. He was
named an IBM Fellow in 1997 for being recognized worldwide as a leading innovator in …

Web performance is a key differentiation among content providers. Snafus and slowdowns
at major web sites demonstrate the difficulty that companies face trying to scale to a large …

Multi-tier infrastructures have become common practice for implementing high volume web
sites. Such infrastructures typically contain TCP load balancers, HTTP servers, application …

Caching as a means to improve scalability, throughput, and response time for Web
applications has received a lot of attention. Caching can take place at different levels in a …

A data-intensive Web site is a Web server that accesses large numbers of pages whose
content is dynamically extracted from a database. In this context, returning a Web page may …

E-business sites are increasingly utilizing dynamic web pages since they enable a much
wider range of interaction than static HTML pages can provide. Dynamic page generation …

With the growing use of dynamic web content generated from relational databases,
traditional caching solutions for through put and latency improvements are ineffective. We …

We discuss several important issues specific to Web caching for content dynamically
generated from database applications. We present the techniques employed by Oracle Web …

We introduce a client-server toolkit called Sync Kit that demonstrates how client-side
database storage can improve the performance of data intensive websites. Sync Kit is …