ALLUXIO (FORMERLY TACHYON): UNIFY DATA AT MEMORY SPEED

Global Big Data Conference, San Jose

March 2017

Gene Pang, Alluxio, Inc.

HISTORY

• Started at UC Berkeley AMPLab In Summer 2012• Originally named as Tachyon• Rebranded to Alluxio in early 2016

• Open Sourced in 2013• Apache License 2.0• Latest Stable Release: Alluxio 1.4.0• Alluxio 1.5.0 Planned For Q2, 2017

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ALLUXIO DEPLOYMENTS

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BIG DATA ECOSYSTEM TODAYBIG DATA ECOSYSTEM WITH ALLUXIO

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FUSE Compatible File SystemHadoop Compatible File System Native Key-Value InterfaceNative File System

Unifying Data at Memory Speed

BIG DATA ECOSYSTEM ISSUES

GlusterFS InterfaceAmazon S3 Interface Swift InterfaceHDFS Interface

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BIG DATA ECOSYSTEM YESTERDAY

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• Fastest growing open-source project in the big data ecosystem

• 450+ contributors from 100+ organizations

• Running in large production clusters

• Community members are welcome!

FASTEST GROWING BIG DATA PROJECTS

Popular Open Source Projects’ Growth

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Unification

New workflows across any data in any storage system

Orders of magnitude improvement in run time

Choice in compute and storage – grow each independently, buy only what is needed

Performance Flexibility

ALLUXIO BENEFITS

#1 – ACCELERATING REMOTE STORAGE I/O

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• Scenario: Compute and Storage Separation• Meet different compute and storage hardware requirements

• Scale compute and storage independently

• Store data in traditional filers/SANs and object stores

• Analyze existing data with Big Data compute frameworks

• Limitation

• Accessing data requires remote I/O

I/O WITHOUT ALLUXIO

Spark

Storage

Low latency, memory throughput

High latency, network throughput

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I/O WITH ALLUXIO

Spark

Storage

AlluxioKeeping data in Alluxio accelerates data access

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CASE STUDY: BAIDU

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The performance was amazing. With Spark SQL alone, it took 100-150 seconds to finish a query; using Alluxio, where data may hit local or remote Alluxio nodes, it took 10-15 seconds.

- Baidu

RESULTS

• Data queries are now 30x faster with Alluxio

• Alluxio cluster runs stably, providing over 50TB of RAM space

• By using Alluxio, batch queries usually lasting over 15 minutes were transformed into an interactive query taking less than 30 seconds

Baidu’s PMs and analysts run

interactive queries to gain insights

into their products and business

• 200+ nodes deployment

• 2+ petabytes of storage

• Mix of memory + HDD

ALLUXIO

Baidu File System

#2 – SHARING DATA AT MEMORY-SPEED AMONG APPLICATIONS

• Scenario: Data Sharing Architecture

• Pipelines: output of one job is input of the next job

• Applications, jobs, and contexts reading the same data

• Limitation

• Sharing data requires I/O

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SHARING WITHOUT ALLUXIO

Spark

Storage

MapReduce Spark

Network I/O

Disk I/O

I/O slows down

sharing

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SHARING WITH ALLUXIO

Spark

Storage

MapReduce SparkMemory-speed

sharingAlluxio

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CASE STUDY: BARCLAYS

Thanks to Alluxio, we now have the raw data immediately available at every iteration and we can skip the costs of loading in terms of time waiting, network traffic, and RDBMS activity.

- Barclays

RESULTS

• Barclays workflow iteration time decreased from hours to seconds

• Alluxio enabled workflows that were impossible before

• By keeping data only in memory, the I/O cost of loading and storing in Alluxio is now on the order of seconds

Barclays uses query and machine

learning to train models for risk

management

• 6 node deployment

• 1TB of storage

• Memory only

ALLUXIO

Relational Database

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#3 – UNIFYING DATA ACCESS FROM DIFFERENT STORAGE

• Scenario: Multiple Storage Systems

• Most enterprises have multiple storage systems

• New (better, faster, cheaper) storage systems arise

• Limitation

• Accessing data from different systems requires different APIs

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ACCESSING DATA THROUGH ALLUXIO

Storage B

Alluxio

Spark MapReduce Flink

Storage A Storage C

Flexible,

simple

no application changes,

new mount point

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CASE STUDY: QUNAR

We’ve been running Alluxio in production for over 9 months, Alluxio’s unified namespace enable different applications and frameworks to easily interact with data from different storage systems.

- Qunar

RESULTS

• Data sharing among Spark Streaming, Spark batch and Flink jobs provide efficient data sharing

• Improved the performance of their system with 15x – 300x speedups

• Tiered storage feature manages storage resources including memory and HDD

• 200+ nodes deployment

• 6 billion logs (4.5 TB) daily

• Mix of Memory + HDD

ALLUXIO

Qunar uses real-time machine

learning for their website ads.

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ALLUXIO DEMO

SUMMARY

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• Adopted by industry leaders

• Unified, memory-speed data access across compute frameworks (Spark, Presto, MapReduce) and storage systems (S3, GCS, ECS, Ceph, HDFS, NFS, etc)

• Rapidly growing OS community

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

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Contribute @ www.alluxio.org/contributeGet started @ goo.gl/55ApFx

Contact: gene@alluxio.com

Twitter: @unityxx

Websites: www.alluxio.com and www.alluxio.org

Thank you!

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Demo Videos: Spark + Alluxio + S3Alluxio Unified Namespace

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