A Study Of E-Commerce Performance Evaluation Based On TPC-W Benchmark

Performance requirements evaluation drives the design implementation and use of computer systems, where the most common objective is to achieve the highest possible performance for a given cost. A study that was conducted to simulate E-commerce web servers have observed that, there is a demand for reconfiguring some of distributed systems online, to improve their performance which is affected by dynamically workloads. Transaction Processing Performance Council Web (TPC-W) Benchmark has also proved that, there is a real performance benefit to system reconfiguration in reaction to workload changes. In this research we conducted a study to understand e-commerce site workloads changes and to search for parameters that affect performance for more than one type of e-commerce websites. By using Java language, MySQL database and Tomcat environment we designed a system (based on TPC-W standards) that will evaluate performance of E-commerce servers under dynamic customer's applications. The developed system was implemented under realistic workloads, to allow benchmarking of different technologies and to test for TPC-W given standards correspondence. We implemented our system in a model which allows different performance affecting parameters such as increased number of customers to be inserted and experimented. We finally observed our results, which proved that our system had met the TPC-W specifications, so it can be used to simulate dynamic customer's applications. We finally suggested its implementation for performance evaluation for other new e-commerce websites that might be launched in the future.