Big Data Challenges in Application Performance Management

Many web companies deal with enormous data sizes and re-quest rates beyond the capabilities of traditional database systems. This has led to the development of modern Web Data Platforms (WDPs). WDPs handle large amounts of data and activity through massively distributed infrastruc-tures. To achieve performance and availability at Inter-net scale, WDPs restrict querying capability, and provide weaker consistency guarantees than traditional ACID trans-actions. The reduced functionality is sufficient for many web applications. High data and query rates also appear in ap-plication performance management (APM). APM has simi-lar requirements like current web based information systems such as weaker consistency needs, geographical distribution and asynchronous processing. At the same time, APM has some unique features and requirements that make previously published research and existing architectures inapplicable. 1