Towards Bringing Vitruvius into the Cloud

Model consistency, e.g., to keep an architectural model and a source code model of a system consistent, is a topic of active research, driven by a need from industry. Academic approaches, e.g., Vitruvius, provide solutions to such pressing problems, but often lack usability, e.g., for collaborative modeling, which is a use case we want to provide in the future. To improve the usability of Vitruvius, we extended it with server-client functionality. This improves the usability, but may introduce performance disadvantages. Thus, we investigated and compared the performance of our new server-client implementation to local instances, which are monolithic, to estimate the additional overhead. The results indicate that the server-client implementation can add minimal overhead.