CloudStore – Towards Scalability Benchmarking in Cloud Computing

Abstract This paper describes CloudStore, an open source application that lends itself to analyzing key characteristics of Cloud computing platforms. Based on an earlier standard from transaction processing, it represents a simplified version of a typical e-commerce application – an electronic book store. We detail how a deployment on a popular public cloud offering can be instrumented to gain insight into system characteristics such as capacity, scalability, elasticity and efficiency.