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{{Masterproject
|Master name=Internet and Web Technology
|Student name=Erik - Jan van Baaren
|Student number=0
|Project start date=2008/09/01
|Project end date=2009/05/01
|Supervisor=Guillaume Pierre
|Second reader=Guido Urdaneta
|Thesis title=WikiBench: A distributed, Wikipedia based web application benchmark
|Finished=Yes
|Poster=Media:Posternaam.pdf
}}
Many different, novel approaches have been taken to improve throughput
and scalability of distributed web application hosting systems and relational
databases. Yet there are only a limited number of web application bench-
marks available. We present the design and implementation of WikiBench,
a distributed web application benchmarking tool based on Wikipedia. WikiBench 
is a trace based benchmark, able to create realistic workloads with
thousands of requests per second to any system hosting the freely available
Wikipedia data and software. We obtained completely anonymized, sampled access 
traces from the Wikimedia Foundation, and we created software
to process these traces in order to reduce the intensity of its traffic while
still maintaining the most important properties such as inter-arrival times
and distribution of page popularity. This makes WikiBench usable for both
small and large scale benchmarks. Initial benchmarks show a regular day of
traffic with its ups and downs. By using median response times, we are able
to show the effects of increasing traffic intensities on our system under test.

== Final thesis ==

* [http://wiki.cs.vu.nl/mp/images/3/3b/Master-thesis-erik-jan-van-baaren.pdf Thesis]
* [http://www.wikibench.eu/ WikiBench software and documentation]