Middle-Tier Extensible Data Management

this paper, we discuss how extensible, middle-tier data management can address the twin challenges of flexibility and efficiency for today's e-commerce applications. Specifically, we make several contributions: . We present an architecture for deploying eXtensible Data Management in the middle tier of an ecommerce applicatio

Extensible Data Management in the Middle-Tier

Current data management solutions are largely optimized for intra-enterprise, client-server applications. They depend on predictability, predefined structure, and universal administrative control, and cannot easily cope with change and lack of structure. However, modern ecommerce applications are dynamic, unpredictable, organic, and decentralized, and require adaptability. eXtensible Data Management (XDM) is a new approach that enables rapid development and deployment of networked, data-intensive services by providing semantically-rich, high-performance middle-tier data management, and allows heterogeneous data from different sources to be accessed in a uniform manner. Here, we discuss how middle tier extensible data management can benefit an enterprise, and present technical details and examples from the Index Fabric, an XDM engine we have implemented. 1