PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF DATA-INTENSIVE WEB APPLICATION (DIWA): A CASE STUDY

In recent years the World Wide Web has been elected as an ideal platform for developing Internet applications, thanks to its powerful communication paradigm based on multimodality and browsing, and to its open architectural standards that facilitate the integration of different types of content and systems. A Data-Intensive Web Application (DIWA) is a web-enabled system for the publication and management of large data collections, typically stored in one or more da-tabase management systems. This paper presents an overview of the different tools & techniques for developing Data-Intensive Web Applica-tion. It emphasizes on performance analysis on some of these tools based on response time for retrieving data from a backend server based database. Parameters for this analysis were chosen as number of records of the database vs. response time for retrieving information. The analysis was performed using PHP as server side scripting lan-guage running on windows machine using Apache web server. This paper also includes a case study of Accounts Classifi-cation Chart of Ministry of Finance, Government of Bang-ladesh as well as the development of Online Classification Chart as a data-intensive web application. The application is built on PHP, MySQL technology which will run best on Apache HTTP server regardless of OS environment