How blockchain impacts cloud-based system performance: a case study for a groupware communication application

Roman Beck, Peter Eklund, Jason Spasovski

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Abstract

This paper examines the performance trade-off when implementing a blockchain architecture for a cloud-based groupware communication application. We measure the additional cloudbased resources and performance costs of the overhead required to implement a groupware collaboration system over a blockchain architecture. To evaluate our groupware application, we develop measuring instruments for testing scalability and performance of computer systems deployed as cloud computing applications. While some details of our groupware collaboration application have been published in earlier work, in this paper we reflect on a generalized measuring method for blockchain-enabled applications which may in turn lead to a general methodology for testing cloud-based system performance and scalability using blockchain.
Latency and transaction throughput metrics are collected for the blockchain implementation against the non-blockchain implementation and some conclusions are drawn about the additional resources that a blockchain architecture for a groupware collaboration application imposes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2019
Publication statusPublished - 2019
SeriesAustralasian Conference on Information Systems

Keywords

  • Blockchain Architecture
  • Cloud-based Groupware
  • Performance Trade-off
  • Scalability Measurement
  • Transaction Throughput

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