A metadata-driven cloud platform for delivery of SaaS applications

Author

Kong Lanju ; Li Q

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Shandong Univ., Jinan, China

fYear

2011

fDate

6-8 June 2011

Firstpage

501

Lastpage

505

Abstract

With the emergence of SaaS, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which supports ISVs to build SaaS applications easily and rapidly is also on the rise. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a metadata-driven cloud platform for delivery of Saas applications. The platform established application layer multi-tenant virtualization approach and hierarchical data model, which can support development through standard SQL and effectively support the tenants´ customization, the unified management of data, and facilitate data sharing between applications, data management rights model and transaction management, but also easy to insure the data node stretching in the cloud.

Keywords

DP industry; SQL; cloud computing; meta data; ISV; Independent Software Vendor; SQL; SaaS application; application layer multi tenant virtualization approach; data management rights model; data sharing; hierarchical data model; metadata driven cloud platform; transaction management; unified management; Automation; Conferences; Saas; cloud; mapping mechanism; metadata-driven;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Automation (ICIA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0268-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0269-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICINFA.2011.5949044

Filename

5949044