Application Splitting in the Cloud: A Performance Study

Franz Faul, Rafael Arizcorreta, Florian Dudouet, Thomas Michael Bohnert

2016

Abstract

Cloud-based deployments have become more and more mainstream in recent years, with many companies evaluating moving their infrastructure to the cloud, whether a public cloud, a private cloud, or a mix of the two through the hybrid cloud concept. One service offered by many clouds providers is Database-as-a-Service, where a user is offered a direct endpoint and access credentials to a chosen type of database. In this paper, we evaluate the performance impact of application splitting in a Hybrid Cloud environment. In this context, the database may be located in a cloud setting and the application servers on another cloud or on-premises, or the other way around. We found that for applications with low database latency and throughput requirements, moving to a public cloud environment can be a cost saving solution. None of the cloud providers evaluated were able to provide comparable performance for database-heavy database applications when compared to an optimized enterprise environment. Evaluating application splitting, we conclude that bursting to the cloud is a viable option in most cases, provided that the data is moved to the cloud before performing the requests.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Faul F., Arizcorreta R., Dudouet F. and Bohnert T. (2016). Application Splitting in the Cloud: A Performance Study . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-182-3, pages 245-252. DOI: 10.5220/0005857102450252

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer16,
author={Franz Faul and Rafael Arizcorreta and Florian Dudouet and Thomas Michael Bohnert},
title={Application Splitting in the Cloud: A Performance Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2016},
pages={245-252},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005857102450252},
isbn={978-989-758-182-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Application Splitting in the Cloud: A Performance Study
SN - 978-989-758-182-3
AU - Faul F.
AU - Arizcorreta R.
AU - Dudouet F.
AU - Bohnert T.
PY - 2016
SP - 245
EP - 252
DO - 10.5220/0005857102450252