Quantitative Analysis of Apache Storm Applications: The NewsAsset Case StudyShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Information Systems Frontiers, ISSN 1387-3326, E-ISSN 1572-9419, Vol. 21, no 1, p. 67-85Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The development of Information Systems today faces the era of Big Data. Large volumes of information need to be processed in real-time, for example, for Facebook or Twitter analysis. This paper addresses the redesign of NewsAsset, a commercial product that helps journalists by providing services, which analyzes millions of media items from the social network in real-time. Technologies like Apache Storm can help enormously in this context. We have quantitatively analyzed the new design of NewsAsset to assess whether the introduction of Apache Storm can meet the demanding performance requirements of this media product. Our assessment approach, guided by the Unified Modeling Language (UML), takes advantage, for performance analysis, of the software designs already used for development. In addition, we converted UML into a domain-specific modeling language (DSML) for Apache Storm, thus creating a profile for Storm. Later, we transformed said DSML into an appropriate language for performance evaluation, specifically, stochastic Petri nets. The assessment ended with a successful software design that certainly met the scalability requirements of NewsAsset.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2019. Vol. 21, no 1, p. 67-85
Keywords [en]
Apache Storm, UML, Petri nets, Software Performance, Software reuse
National Category
Software Engineering
Research subject
Computer Science, Software Technology; Computer Science, Software Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77364DOI: 10.1007/s10796-018-9851-xOAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-77364DiVA, id: diva2:1242441
Projects
H2020 DICE - Grant Agreement 644869Spanis Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness TIN2014-58457-R
Funder
EU, European Research Council, 6448692018-08-282018-08-282020-04-14Bibliographically approved