Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

December 14, 2014

GearPump

Filed under: Actor-Based,Akka,Hadoop YARN,Samza,Spark,Storm,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 7:30 pm

GearPump (GitHub)

From the wiki homepage:

GearPump is a lightweight, real-time, big data streaming engine. It is inspired by recent advances in the Akka framework and a desire to improve on existing streaming frameworks. GearPump draws from a number of existing frameworks including MillWheel, Apache Storm, Spark Streaming, Apache Samza, Apache Tez, and Hadoop YARN while leveraging Akka actors throughout its architecture.

What originally caught my attention was this passage on the GitHub page:

Per initial benchmarks we are able to process 11 million messages/second (100 bytes per message) with a 17ms latency on a 4-node cluster.

Think about that for a second.

Per initial benchmarks we are able to process 11 million messages/second (100 bytes per message) with a 17ms latency on a 4-node cluster.

The GitHub page features a word count example and pointers to the wiki with more examples.

What if every topic “knew” the index value of every topic that should merge with it on display to a user?

When added to a topic map it broadcasts its merging property values and any topic with those values responds by transmitting its index value.

When you retrieve a topic, it has all the IDs necessary to create a merged view of the topic on the fly and on the client side.

There would be redundancy in the map but de-duplication for storage space went out with preferences for 7-bit character values to save memory space. So long as every topic returns the same result, who cares?

Well, it might make a difference when the CIA want to give every contractor full access to its datastores 24×7 via their cellphones. But, until that is an actual requirement, I would not worry about the storage space overmuch.

I first saw this in a tweet from Suneel Marthi.

August 19, 2014

High Performance With Apache Tez (webinar)

Filed under: Hadoop,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 7:28 pm

Build High Performance Data Processing Application Using Apache Tez by Ajay Singh.

From the post:

This week we continue our YARN webinar series with detailed introduction and a developer overview of Apache Tez. Designed to express fit-to-purpose data processing logic, Tez enables batch and interactive data processing applications spanning TB to PB scale datasets. Tez offers a customizable execution architecture that allows developers to express complex computations as dataflow graphs and allows for dynamic performance optimizations based on real information about the data and the resources required to process it.

Tez graduated to Apache top-level project in July 2014 and is now the workhorse of Apache Hive. With Tez, Hive 0.13 is of a magnitude faster than its previous generation. To learn more on Tez, join us on Thursday August 21st at 9 AM Pacific Time. We will review

  • Tez Architecture
  • Developer APIs
  • Sample code

Discover and Learn

Something to get you in shape for the Fall!

August 13, 2014

HDP 2.1 Tutorials

Filed under: Falcon,Hadoop,Hive,Hortonworks,Knox Gateway,Storm,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 11:17 am

HDP 2.1 tutorials from Hortonworks:

  1. Securing your Data Lake Resource & Auditing User Access with HDP Security
  2. Searching Data with Apache Solr
  3. Define and Process Data Pipelines in Hadoop with Apache Falcon
  4. Interactive Query for Hadoop with Apache Hive on Apache Tez
  5. Processing streaming data in Hadoop with Apache Storm
  6. Securing your Hadoop Infrastructure with Apache Knox

The quality you have come to expect from Hortonwork tutorials but the data sets are a bit dull.

What data sets would you suggest to spice up this tutorials?

May 18, 2014

Yahoo Betting on Apache Hive, Tez, and YARN

Filed under: Hadoop YARN,Hive,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 8:01 pm

Yahoo Betting on Apache Hive, Tez, and YARN

With the usual caveats about test results:

On the other hand, Hive 0.13 query execution times were not only significantly better at higher volumes of data (Fig 3 and 4) but also executed successfully without failing. In our comparisons and observations with Shark, we saw most queries fail with the larger (10TB) dataset. These same queries ran successfully and much faster on Hive 0.13, allowing for better scale. This was extremely critical for us, as we needed a single query and BI solution on the Hadoop grid regardless of dataset size. The Hive solution resonates with our users, as they do not have to worry about learning multiple technologies and discerning which solution to use when. A common solution also results in cost and operational efficiencies from having to build, deploy, and maintain a single solution.

Successful 10TB query times and results should be enough to get your attention. Not that many of us have data in that range, today, but tomorrow, who can say?

Enjoy!

I first saw this in a tweet by Joshua Lande.

April 2, 2014

Hortonworks Data Platform 2.1

Filed under: Apache Ambari,Falcon,Hadoop,Hadoop YARN,Hive,Hortonworks,Knox Gateway,Solr,Storm,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 2:49 pm

Hortonworks Data Platform 2.1 by Jim Walker.

From the post:

The pace of innovation within the Apache Hadoop community is truly remarkable, enabling us to announce the availability of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.1, incorporating the very latest innovations from the Hadoop community in an integrated, tested, and completely open enterprise data platform.

A VM available now, full releases to follow later in April.

Just grabbing the headings from Jim’s post:

The Stinger Initiative: Apache Hive, Tez and YARN for Interactive Query

Data Governance with Apache Falcon

Security with Apache Knox

Stream Processing with Apache Storm

Searching Hadoop Data with Apache Solr

Advanced Operations with Apache Ambari

See Jim’s post for some of the details and the VM for others.

March 10, 2014

Apache Tez 0.3 Released!

Filed under: GPU,MapReduce,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 4:12 pm

Apache Tez 0.3 Released! by Bikas Saha.

From the post:

The Apache Tez community has voted to release 0.3 of the software.

Apacheā„¢ Tez is a replacement of MapReduce that provides a powerful framework for executing a complex topology of tasks. Tez 0.3.0 is an important release towards making the software ready for wider adoption by focusing on fundamentals and ironing out several key functions. The major action areas in this release were

  1. Security. Apache Tez now works on secure Hadoop 2.x clusters using the built-in security mechanisms of the Hadoop ecosystem.
  2. Scalability. We tested the software on large clusters, very large data sets and large applications processing tens of TB each to make sure it scales well with both data-sets and machines.
  3. Fault Tolerance. Apache Tez executes a complex DAG workflow that can be subject to multiple failure conditions in clusters of commodity hardware and is highly resilient to these and other sorts of failures.
  4. Stability. A large number of bug fixes went into this release as early adopters and testers put the software through its paces and reported issues.

To prove the stability and performance of Tez, we executed complex jobs comprised of more than 50 different stages and tens of thousands of tasks on a fairly large cluster (> 300 Nodes, > 30TB data). Tez passed all our tests and we are certain that new adopters can integrate confidently with Tez and enjoy the same benefits as Apache Hive & Apache Pig have already.

I am curious how the Hadoop community is going to top 2013. I suspect Tez is going to be part of that answer!

January 6, 2014

Enron, Email, Kiji, Hive, YARN, Tez (Jan. 7th, DC)

Filed under: Email,Hadoop YARN,Hive,KIji Project,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 7:43 pm

Exploring Enron Email Dataset with Kiji and Hive; Apache YARN and Apache Tez Hadoop-DC.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Neustar (Room: Neuview) 21575 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, VA

From the webpage:

Exploring Enron Email Dataset with Kiji and Hive

Lee Sheng, WibiData

Apache Hive is a data warehousing system for large volumes of data stored in Hadoop that provides SQL based access for exploring datasets. KijiSchema provides evolvable schemas of primitive and compound types on top of HBase. The integration between these provides the best aspects of both worlds (ad hoc SQL based querying on top of datasets using evolvable schemas containing complex objects). This talk will present an examples of queries utilizing this integration to do exploratory analysis of the Enron email corpus. Delving into topics such as email responder pairs and sentiment analysis can expose many of the interesting points in the rise and fall of Enron.

Apache YARN & Apache Tez

Tom McCuch Technical Director, Hortonworks

Apache Hadoop has become synonymous with Big Data and powers large scale data processing across some of the biggest companies in the world. Hadoop 2 is the next generation release of Hadoop and marks a pivotal point in its maturity with YARN – the new Hadoop compute framework. YARN – Yet Another Resource Negotiator – is a complete re-architecture of the Hadoop compute stack with a clean separation between platform and application. This opens up Hadoop data processing to new applications that can be executed IN Hadoop instead of outside Hadoop, thus improving efficiency, performance, data sharing and lowering operation costs. The Big Data ecosystem is already converging on YARN with new applications like Apache Tez being written specifically for YARN. Apache Tez aims to provide high performance and efficiency out of the box, across the spectrum of low latency queries and heavy-weight batch processing. The talk will provide a brief overview of key Hadoop 2 innovations, focusing in on YARN and Tez – covering architecture, motivational use cases and future roadmap. Finally, the impact of YARN on the Hadoop community will be demonstrated through running interactive queries with both Hive on Tez and with Hive on MapReduce, and comparing their performance side-by-side on the same Hadoop 2 cluster.

When I saw the low tomorrow in DC is going to be 16F and the high 21F, I thought I should pass this along.

Does anyone have a very large set of phone metadata that is public?

Thinking rather than grinding over Enron’s stumbles, again, phone metadata could be hands-on training for a variety of careers. šŸ˜‰

Looking forward to seeing videos of these presentations!

December 21, 2013

…Stinger Phase 3 Technical Preview

Filed under: Hortonworks,STINGER,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 7:59 pm

Announcing Stinger Phase 3 Technical Preview by Carter Shanklin.

From the post:

As an early Christmas present, we’ve made a technical preview of Stinger Phase 3 available. While just a preview by moniker, the release marks a significant milestone in the transformation of Hadoop from a batch-oriented system to a data platform capable of interactive data processing at scale and delivering on the aims of the Stinger Initiative.

Apache Tez and SQL: Interactive Query-IN-Hadoop

stinger-phase-3Tez is a low-level runtime engine not aimed directly at data analysts or data scientists. Frameworks need to be built on top of Tez to expose it to a broad audienceā€¦ enter SQL and interactive query in Hadoop.

Stinger Phase 3 Preview combines the Tez execution engine with Apache Hive, Hadoopā€™s native SQL engine. Now, anyone who uses SQL tools in Hadoop can enjoy truly interactive data query and analysis.

We have already seen Apache Pig move to adopt Tez, and we will soon see others like Cascading do the same, unlocking many forms of interactive data processing natively in Hadoop. Tez is the technology that takes Hadoop beyond batch and into interactive, and weā€™re excited to see it available in a way that is easy to use and accessible to any SQL user.

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Further on in the blog Carter mentions that for real fun you need four (4) physical nodes and a fairly large dataset.

I have yet to figure out the price break point between a local cluster and using a cloud service. Suggestions on that score?

September 15, 2013

Apache Tez: A New Chapter in Hadoop Data Processing

Filed under: Hadoop,Hadoop YARN,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 3:56 pm

Apache Tez: A New Chapter in Hadoop Data Processing by Bikas Saha.

From the post:

In this post we introduce the motivation behind Apache Tez (http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tez.html) and provide some background around the basic design principles for the project. As Carter discussed in our previous post on Stinger progress, Apache Tez is a crucial component of phase 2 of that project.

What is Apache Tez?

Apache Tez generalizes the MapReduce paradigm to execute a complex DAG (directed acyclic graph) of tasks. It also represents the next logical next step for Hadoop 2 and the introduction of with YARN and its more general-purpose resource management framework.

While MapReduce has served masterfully as the data processing backbone for Hadoop, its batch-oriented nature makes it unsuited for certain workloads like interactive query. Tez represents an alternate to the traditional MapReduce that allows for jobs to meet demands for fast response times and extreme throughput at petabyte scale. A great example of a benefactor of this new approach is Apache Hive and the work being done in the Stinger Initiative.

Motivation

Distributed data processing is the core application that Apache Hadoop is built around. Storing and analyzing large volumes and variety of data efficiently has been the cornerstone use case that has driven large scale adoption of Hadoop, and has resulted in creating enormous value for the Hadoop adopters. Over the years, while building and running data processing applications based on MapReduce, we have understood a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of this framework and how we would like to evolve the Hadoop data processing framework to meet the evolving needs of Hadoop users. As the Hadoop compute platform moves into its next phase with YARN, it has decoupled itself from MapReduce being the only application, and opened the opportunity to create a new data processing framework to meet the new challenges. Apache Tez aspires to live up to these lofty goals.

Does your topic map engine decoupled from a single merging algorithm?

I ask because SLAs may require different algorithms for data sets or sources.

Leaked U.S. military documents may have a higher priority for completeness than half-human/half-bot posts on a Twitter stream.

February 20, 2013

Introducingā€¦ Tez: Accelerating processing of data stored in HDFS

Filed under: DAG,Graphs,Hadoop YARN,MapReduce,Tez — Patrick Durusau @ 9:23 pm

Introducingā€¦ Tez: Accelerating processing of data stored in HDFS by Arun Murthy.

From the post:

MapReduce has served us well. For years it has been THE processing engine for Hadoop and has been the backbone upon which a huge amount of value has been created. While it is here to stay, new paradigms are also needed in order to enable Hadoop to serve an even greater number of usage patterns. A key and emerging example is the need for interactive query, which today is challenged by the batch-oriented nature of MapReduce. A key step to enabling this new world was Apache YARN and today the community proposes the next stepā€¦ Tez

What is Tez?

Tez ā€“ Hindi for ā€œspeedā€ ā€“ (currently under incubation vote within Apache) provides a general-purpose, highly customizable framework that creates simplifies data-processing tasks across both small scale (low-latency) and large-scale (high throughput) workloads in Hadoop. It generalizes the MapReduce paradigm to a more powerful framework by providing the ability to execute a complex DAG (directed acyclic graph) of tasks for a single job so that projects in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem such as Apache Hive, Apache Pig and Cascading can meet requirements for human-interactive response times and extreme throughput at petabyte scale (clearly MapReduce has been a key driver in achieving this).

With the emergence of Apache Hadoop YARN as the basis of next generation data-processing architectures, there is a strong need for an application which can execute a complex DAG of tasks which can then be shared by Apache Pig, Apache Hive, Cascading and others. The constrained DAG expressible in MapReduce (one set of maps followed by one set of reduces) often results in multiple MapReduce jobs which harm latency for short queries (overhead of launching multiple jobs) and throughput for large-scale queries (too much overhead for materializing intermediate job outputs to the filesystem). With Tez, we introduce a more expressive DAG of tasks, within a single application or job, that is better aligned with the required processing task ā€“ thus, for e.g., any given SQL query can be expressed as a single job using Tez.

If you are familiar with Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Claus Huitfeldt’s work on DAGs, you would be as excited as I am! (Goddag for example.)

On any day this would be awesome work.

Even more so coming on the heels of two other major project announcements. Securing Hadoop with Knox Gateway and The Stinger Initiative: Making Apache Hive 100 Times Faster, both from Hortonworks.

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