Azul Systems WEBeTailer2010 Performance Study

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WEBeTailer 2010 Benchmark Zing™ Platform Results

Web portals are ubiquitous in the enterprise and across the Internet today and have become the de facto approach for offering services, ranging from web facing e-commerce, to customer self-service, to corporate portals that are central to daily employee productivity. Portals typically provide a central, session-based, authenticated interaction with multiple internal subsystems, covering a wide range of user operations. Portals will typically carry session state associated with user information for the duration of a user’s session, as well as transactional state during the execution of internal operations.  Since portals typically provide a central interaction point between a user and a business-critical set of functionality, response time and availability metrics are key to proper portal operations. In this paper we will review performance metrics for a transaction-centric, Web portal application under specific service level agreements (SLAs).

This WEBeTailer2010 benchmark used a demo application from Liferay portal 5.23 running on JBoss AS 5.1 to simulate large, concurrent Ecommerce user loads.  The study's SLA required that 99.9% of users had to receive a response in five seconds or less. 

As shown in the graph, a conventional JVM was able to support only 45 concurrent users and meet the SLA, while Zing was able to support over 800 users with response times under one second. The study used a single JVM in each case, with Zing able to sustain much larger memory heap sizes on this single instance.