Database Backend as a Service: Automatic Generation, Deployment, and Management of Database Backends for Mobile Applications

Abstract

Managing data in the Cloud is a challenging task, especially scaling resources in order to prevent under- and over-provisioning. In this paper, we consider a specific domain of applications, namely mobile applications for events like conferences or festivals, where automatic managing and scaling the backend part of the application would be beneficial in terms of efficient resource utilization as well as a good end-user experience. In order to achieve this, we make the following contributions. We automate generation, deployment, operation, and management of the backend in an Infrastructure as a Service Cloud. Thereby, we address the fluctuating load characteristics of mobile applications for events by applying our monitoring and autoscaling framework based on data stream processing and complex event processing.