Data scalability in open hypermedia systems
Kenneth Mark Anderson · 1999
A key issue in hypermedia is scalability.A review of the hypermedia literature relevant to scalability is presented and related to the field of open hypermedia systems.The issues are grounded in the description of a development project that increased the scalability of the Chimera open hypermedia system two orders of magnitude.The project description includes the scenario that motivated the work, Chimera's architecture, the scalability issues encountcrcd and the techniques employed to address them.An important lesson of the work is that scalability impacts all levels of a system's architecture.This has significant ramifications with respect to open hypermedia systems since the highest layer of their architecture is composed of third-party applications typically outside the control of the open hypermedia system's developers.