Challenges for the Adoption of Model-Driven Web Engineering Approaches in Industry

Model-driven web engineering approaches have become an attractive research and technology solution for Web application development. However, after 20 years of development, they have attracted little attention from the Industry due to the mismatch between technical versus research requirements. In this joint work between academia and industry, the authors present the current problems of using these approaches in scale and provide guidelines to convert them into viable industry solutions.Ministerio de ciencia e Innovación TIN2016-76956-C3-2-RMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2015-71938-RED

NoSQL Database Technologies

As cloud computing continues to evolve, organizations are finding new ways to store the massive amounts of big data that are collected. Big data storage often require greater flexibility and scalability which can be provided by incorporating NoSQL technologies. NoSQL (Not Only SQL) is quickly becoming a popular approach to store large and unstructured data. This paper looks at the various classifications of NoSQL technologies as well as many of the notable characteristics of the technologies. The authors also describe some deficiencies of using NoSQL and give some explanation to why companies are adopting the technology. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research of NoSQL technologies and a content analysis of current articles in database management is provided in the appendix

Challenges for the adoption of model-driven web engineering approaches in industry

Model-Driven Web Engineering approaches have become an attractive research and technology solution for Web application development. However, for more than 20 years of development, the industry has not adopted them due to the mismatch between technical versus research requirements. In the context of this joint work between academia and industry, the authors conduct a survey among hundreds of engineers from different companies around the world and, by statistical analysis, they present the current problems of these approaches in scale. Then, a set of guidelines is provided to improve Model-Driven Web Engineering approaches in order to make them viable industry solutions.Facultad de InformáticaLaboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzad

LiquidML: A Model Based Environment for Developing High Scalable Web Applications

The scalability of modern Web applications has become a key aspect for any business in order to support thousands of concurrent users while reducing its computational costs. However, existing model driven web engineering approaches have been focus on building Web applications that satisfy functional requirements while disregarding “technological” aspects such as scalability and performance. As a consequence, the applications derived from these approaches may not scale well and need to be adapted. In this paper we present the LiquidML environment, which allows building Web applications using a model-based approach. In contrast with existing approaches, aspects that help to improve the scalability of a Web application are modeled as first class citizens and as a consequence the applications obtained scale better than its counterparts.Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzad