Form-based proxy caching for database-backed web sites: keywords and functions

  • Authors:

  • Qiong Luo;Jeffrey F. Naughton;Wenwei Xue

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA 53706;Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Web caching proxy servers are essential for improving web performance and scalability, and recent research has focused on making proxy caching work for database-backed web sites. In this paper, we explore a new proxy caching framework that exploits the query semantics of HTML forms. We identify two common classes of form-based queries from real-world database-backed web sites, namely, keyword-based queries and function-embedded queries. Using typical examples of these queries, we study two representative caching schemes within our framework: (i) traditional passive query caching, and (ii) active query caching, in which the proxy cache can service a request by evaluating a query over the contents of the cache. Results from our experimental implementation show that our form-based proxy is a general and flexible approach that efficiently enables active caching schemes for database-backed web sites. Furthermore, handling query containment at the proxy yields significant performance advantages over passive query caching, but extending the power of the active cache to do full semantic caching appears to be less generally effective.