Big Data Anti-Patterns:

Lessons from the Front Lines

Strata NYC

October 17, 2014

Douglas Moore

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Think Big – 3 Years

- Delivery

• BDW, Search, Streaming

- Roadmaps

- Tech Assessments

About Douglas Moore

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Before Big Data

- Data Warehousing

- OLTP

- Systems Architecture

- Electricity

- High End Graphics

- Supercomputers

- Numerical Analysis

@douglas_ma

Contact me at:

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Think Big

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4yr Old “Big Data” Professional Services Firm

- Roadmaps

- Engineering

- Data Science

- Hands on Training

Recently acquired by Teradata

• Maintaining Independence

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Content Drawn From Vast Amounts of Experience

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50+ Clients

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I started out with just 3 topics…

Then while on the road to Strata,

I met 7 big data architects

- Who had 7 clients

• Who had 7 projects

• That demonstrated 7 Anti-Patterns

Introduction

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Big Data Anti-pattern:

“Commonly applied but bad solution”

I95 Wikipedia

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• Hardware and Infrastructure

• Tooling

• Big Data Warehousing

Three Focus Areas

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Reference Architecture Driven

- 90’s & 00’s data center patterns

- Servers MUST NOT FAIL

- Standard Server Config

• $35,000/node

• Dual Power supply

• RAID

• SAS 15K RPM

• SAN

• VMs for Production

• Flat Network

Hardware & Infrastructure

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[Image source: HP: The transformation

to HP Converged Infrastructure]Automated provisioning is a good thing!

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Locality Locality Locality

- Bring Computation to Data

#1 Locality

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Co-locate data and compute

Locally Attached Storage

Localize & isolate network traffic

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Hadoop Cluster VM Cluster

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Sequential IO >> Random Access

#2 Sequential IO

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http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html

Image credit: Wikipedia.org

Large block IO

Append only writes

JBOD

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Increase # parallel components

- Reduce component cost

Data block replication

- Availability

- Performance

Commodity++ (2014)

- High density data nodes

- $8-12,000

- ~12 drives

- ~12-16 cores

- Buy 4-5 servers for the cost of 1

• 4-5x spindles

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Expect Failure1,2 Rack Awareness

Data Block Replication

Task Retry

Node Black Listing

Monitor Everything

Name Node HA

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Hadoop Ecosystem Tools

Tooling

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“If it came in the box then I should use it”

Example

- Oozie for scheduling

Tooling: Just looking inside the box

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Best Practice:

• Use your current enterprise scheduler

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Tooling: NoSQL

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• “Now I have all of my log data in NoSQL, let’s do analytics over it”

Example

- Streaming data into Mongo DB

• Running aggregates

• Running MR jobs

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Best Practice

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Best Practice:

• Split the stream

• Real-time access in NoSQL

• Batch analytics in Hadoop

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Key Purpose

- Integrate legacy code

- Integrate analytic tools

• Data science libs

Hadoop supports integrating any type of application tooling

- Hadoop Streaming

• Python

• R

• C, C++

• Fortran

• Cobol

• Ruby

Right Framework, Right Need…

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Got to love Ruby

- Very Cool (or it was)

- Dynamic Language

- Expressive

- Compact

- Fast Iteration

Got to Hate Ruby

- Slow

- Hard to follow & debug

- Does not play well with threading

Right Use Case – ETL, Wrong Framework

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“It’s much faster to develop in,

developer time is valuable,

just throw a couple more boxes at it”

Bench tested at 5,000 records /

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Right Use Case – ETL, Wrong Framework…

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Best Practice:

• Write new code in fastest execution framework

• High value legacy code, analytic tools use Hadoop Streaming

DO THE MATH:

Storm Java: ~ 1MM+ events / second / Server

Storm Ruby: 5000 * 12 cores = 60,000 events / second / Server

= 16.67 times more servers

“Test and Learn!”

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#1 ETL Offload

#2 Data Warehousing

Big Data Warehousing

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Right Schema

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order

order line

customer

product

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sales_person

3NF - Transactional Source System Schema

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contractcustomer

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sales_person

Dimensional Schema

Hadoop

Data Warehouse

OLTP

order lineordercontractcustomer product sales_person

De-normalized schema

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Workload Hadoop NoSQL MPP, Reporting

DBs, Mainframe

ETL

Business Intelligence

Cross business reporting

Sub-set analytics

Full scan analytics

Decision Support TBs-PBs GB-TBs

Operational Reports

Complex security requirements

Search

Fast Lookup

Right Workload, Right Tool

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Understand strengths & weaknesses of each choice

- Get help if needed

Deploy the right tool for the right workload

Test and Learn

Summary

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Thank You

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