A Comparative Study of Alternative Middle Tier Caching Solutions to Support Dynamic Web Content Acceleration

Summary: Compares middle-tier caches for dynamic Web content, emphasizing reusable page-fragment/component caching over whole-page caching. Prediction- and observation-based replacement/invalidation reduce application-server load and outperform existing solutions under higher user loads. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8990
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 8.8228773e-05
Overall Rank: 2,274 | 84.40%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Anindya Datta (Chutney Technologies; Georgia Institute of Technology)
2. Kaushik Dutta (Chutney Technologies; Georgia Institute of Technology)
3. Helen Thomas (Chutney Technologies; Georgia Institute of Technology)
4. Debra VanderMeer (Chutney Technologies; Georgia Institute of Technology)
5. Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai; University of Massachusetts Amherst)
6. Dan Fishman (BEA Systems)

BibTeX Citation

@article{datta_vldb01,
        title = {{A Comparative Study of Alternative Middle Tier Caching Solutions to Support Dynamic Web Content Acceleration}},
        author = {Datta, Anindya and Dutta, Kaushik and Thomas, Helen and VanderMeer, Debra and Ramamritham, Krithi and Fishman, Dan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
785	Middle-Tier Database Caching for e-Business	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014068999
2,549	Web Caching for Database Applications with Oracle Web Cache	2002	SIGMOD	8.4300694e-05
3,305	Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache	2003	VLDB	7.5402501e-05
3,569	Caching with "Good Enough" Currency, Consistency, and Completeness	2005	VLDB	7.3011823e-05
5,771	Mid-Tier Caching: The TimesTen Approach	2002	SIGMOD	6.0930434e-05
6,270	Proxy-Based Acceleration of Dynamically Generated Content on the World Wide Web: An Approach and Implementation	2002	SIGMOD	5.9330107e-05
6,795	Balancing Performance and Data Freshness in Web Database Servers	2003	VLDB	5.7707686e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,113	Caching Strategies for Data-Intensive Web Sites	2000	VLDB	9.149719e-05

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