Scalable architectures for SaaS

Wei Tek Tsai, Yu Huang, Xiaoying Bai, Jerry Gao

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31 Scopus citations

Abstract

An important issue faced by Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application is scalability. Each SaaS application is typically shared by multiple (tens or hundreds) organizations (tenants). Each tenant may have hundreds or thousands of users. Thus, the number of concurrent accesses is high. Handling a large number of user requests effectively is critical for SaaS applications. Various aspects of SaaS can have a significant impact on its scalability, including levels of scalability mechanisms, automated migration, tenant awareness, workload support, fault-tolerance and recovery, software architecture and database access. This paper identifies scalability factors and discusses their impacts on the scalability of SaaS applications. Existing approaches for addressing the scalibility of SaaS applications are also analyzed, and this paper suggests some alternatives to improve SaaS scalability based on the factors identified.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2012 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing Workshops, ISORCW 2012
Pages112-117
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - May 31 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2012 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing Workshops, ISORCW 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

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