hortonworks dataflow white paper

8/17/2019 Hortonworks DataFlow White Paper

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Hortonworks DataFlow www.hortonworks.com ©2016 Hortonwork

A HORTONWORKS WHITE PAPER

FEBRUARY 201

HORTONWORKS DATAFLOWAccelerating Big Data Collection and DataFlow Management


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2Hortonworks DataFlow • ©2016 Hortonworks • www.hortonworks.com

Contents

What is Hortonworks DataFlow? 3

Benets of Hortonworks DataFlow 4

• Leverage Operational Efciency

• Make Better Business Decisions

• Increase Data Security

Features of Hortonworks DataFlow 5

• Data Collection

• Real Time Decisions

• Operational Efciency

• Security and Provenance

• Bi-directional DataFlow

Common applications of Hortonworks DataFlow 6

• Accelerated Data Collection andOperational Effectiveness

• Increased Security and Unprecedented Chain of Custody

• The Internet of Any Thing with Hortonworks DataFlow

• Adaptive to Resource Constraints

• Secure Data Collection

• Prioritized Data Transfer and Bi-directional Feedback Loop

Why Hortonworks for Apache™ Hadoop®? 12

About Hortonworks 12


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What is Hortonworks DataFlow?

Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF), powered by Apache™ NiFi, is the rstintegrated platform that solves the complexity and challenges ofcollecting and transporting data from a multitude of sources be theybig or small, fast or slow, always connected or intermittently available.

Hortonworks DataFlow is a single combined platform for data acquisition, simple event processing,transport and delivery, designed to accommodate the highly diverse and complicated dataowsgenerated by a world of connected people, systems and things.

An ideal solution for the Internet of Any Thing (IoAT), HDF enables simple, fast data acquisition,secure data transport, prioritized data ow and clear traceability of data from the very edge of yournetwork all the way to the core data center. Through a combination of an intuitive visual interface,a high delity access and authorization mechanism and an “always on” chain of custody (data

provenance) framework, HDF is the perfect complement to HDP to bring together historical andperishable insights for your business. A single integrated platform for data acquisition, simpleevent processing, transport and delivery mechanism from source to storage.

A single integrated platform for data acquisition, simple event processing, transport and deliverymechanism from source to storage.

Hortonworks DataFlow is basedon Apache NiFi, technologyoriginally created by the NSA(National Security Agency) in2006 to address the challengeof automating the ow of databetween systems of all types–the very same problem that enterprises are encounteringtoday. After eight years ofdevelopment and use vat scale,the NSA Technology TransferProgram released NiFi to theApache Software Foundation inthe fall of 2014.

Hortonworks DataPlatform can be used to enrich contentand support changes to real-time dataows.

Hortonworks DataFlow enables the real time collection andprocessing of perishable insights.

ENRICH CONTENT

STORE DATA AND METADATA

PERISHABLE

INSIGHTS

HISTORICAL

INSIGHTS

Hortonworks DataFlow is designed to securely collect and transport data from highly diverse data sources be they big orsmall, fast or slow, always connected or intermittently available.

Figure 1: Hortonworks DataFlow


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Benets of Hortonworks DataFlow

DataFlow was designed inherently to meet the practical challenges of collecting data from a wide range of disparate data sources;securely, efciently and over a geographically disperse and possibly fragmented network. Because the NSA encountered many of theissues enterprises are facing now, this technology has been eld-proven with built-in capabilities for security, scalability, integration,reliability and extensibility and has a proven track record for operational usability and deployment.

HORTONWORKS DATAFLOW ENABLES ENTERPRISES TOHORTONWORKS DATAFLOW ENABLES ENTERPRISES TO

Leverage Operational Efciency Make Better Business Decisions Increase Data Security

• Accelerate big data ROI via simplied

data collection and a visually intuitive

dataow management interface

• Signicantly reduce cost and complexityof managing, maintaining and

evolving dataows

• Trace and verify value of data sources

for future investments

• Quickly adapt to new data sources

through an extremely scalable

extensible platform

• Make better business decisions with

highly granular data sharing policies

• Focus on innovation by automating

dataow routing, management andtrouble-shooting without the need

for coding

• Enable on-time, immediate decision

making by leveraging real time data

bi-directional dataows

• Increase business agility with prioritized

data collection policies

• Support unprecedented yet simple

to implement data security from

source to storage

• Improve compliance and reduce riskthrough highly granular data access,

data sharing and data usage policies

• Create a secure dataow ecosystem

with the ability to run the same security

and encryption on smale scale JVM

capable data sources as well as

enterprise class datacenters

Accelerate big data ROI through a singledata-source agnostic collection platform

Better business decisions with highlygranular data sharing policies

Reduce cost and complexity through anintuitive, real-time visual user interface

React in real time by leveragingbi-directional data ows and prioritized

data feeds

Unprecedented yet simple to implementdata security from source to storage

Adapt to new data sources through anextremely scalable, extensible platform


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Features of Hortonworks DataFlow

DATA COLLECTION REAL TIME DECISIONS OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Integrated collection from dynamic,

disparate and distributed sources of

differing formats, schemas, protocols,

speeds and sizes such as machines,

geo location devices, click streams,

les, social feeds, log les and videos

Real-time evaluation of perishable

insights at the edge as being pertinent

or not, and executing upon consequent

decisions to send, drop or locally store

data as needed

Fast, effective drag and drop interface

for creation, management, tuning and

troubleshooting of dataows, enabling

coding free creation and adjustments

of dataows in ve minutes or less

SECURITY AND PROVENANCE BI-DIRECTIONAL DATAFLOW COMMAND AND CONTROL

Secure end-to-end routing from source

to destination, with discrete user

authorization and detailed, real time

visual chain of custody and metadata

(data provenance)

Reliably prioritize and transport data

in real time leveraging bi-directional

dataows to dynamically adapt to

uctuations in data volume, network

connectivity and source and

endpoint capacity

Immediate ability to create, change,

tune, view, start, stop, trace, parse, lter,

join, merge, transform, fork, clone or

replay dataows through a visual user

interface with real time operational

visibility and feedback

Figure 2: Apache NiFi Real-Time Visual User Interface


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Common Applications of Hortonworks DataFlow

Hortonworks DataFlow accelerates time to insight by securely enabling off-the shelf, ow basedprogramming for big data infrastructure and simplifying the current complexity of secure dataacquisition, ingestion and real time analysis of distributed, disparate data sources.

An ideal framework for collection of data and management of dataows, the most popular usesof Hortonworks DataFlow are for: simplied, streamlined big data ingest, increased security forcollection and sharing of data with high delity chain of custody metadata and as the underlyinginfrastructure for the internet of things.

CASE 1: ACCELERATED DATA COLLECTION ANDOPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Streamlined Big Data Ingestion

Hortonworks DataFlow accelerates big dwata pipeline ingest through a single integrated andeasily extensible visual interface for acquiring, and ingesting data from different, disparate,distributed data sources in real time. The simplied and integrated creation, control and analysesof data ows results in faster ROI of big data projects and increased operational effectiveness.

WHAT IS A COMMAND AND

CONTROL INTERFACE?

A command and controlinterface provides the abilityto manipulate the dataowin real time such that currentcontextual data can be fed backto the system to immediatelychange its output. This is incontrast to a design and deployapproach which involvesstatically programming adataow system before thedata is owed through it,and then returning to a static

programming phase to makeadjustments and restarting thedataow again. An analogy tothis would be the differencebetween 3D printing whichrequires pre-planning beforeexecution, and molding claywhich provides immediatefeedback and adjustment of theend product in real time.

To learn more aboutHortonworks DataFlow go tohttp://hortonworks.com/hdf

Figure 2: An integrated, data source agnostic collection platform

UIEasilyAccessand TraceChangesto DataFlow

UIProcessor RealTime Changes

UIDynamicallyAdjust DataFlow

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Why aren’t current data collection systems ideal?

Current big data collection and ingest tools are purpose-built and over-engineered simply becausethey were not originally designed with universally applicable, operationally efcient designprinciples in mind. This creates a complex architecture of disparate acquisition, messaging andoften customized transformation tools that make big data ingest complex, time consumingand expensive from both a deployment and a maintenance perspective. Further, the time lagassociated with the command line and coding dependent tools fetters access to data andprevents the on-time, operational decision making required of today’s business environment.

Figure 3: Current big data ingest solutions are complex and operationally inefcient


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CASE 2: INCREASED SECURITY AND UNPRECEDENTED CHAIN OF CUSTODYIncreased security and provenance with Hortonworks DataFlow

Data security is growing ever more important in the world of ever connected devices and the needto adhere to compliance and data security regulations is currently difcult, complex and costly.Verication of data access and usage is difcult, time consuming and often involves a manualprocess of piecing together different systems and reports to verify where data is sourced from,how it is used, who has used it and how often.

Current tools utilized for transporting electronic data today are not designed for the expectedsecurity requirements of tomorrow. It is difcult, if not almost impossible for current tools to sharediscrete bits of data, much less do so dynamically—a problem that had to be addressed in theenvironment of Apache NiFI as a dataow platform used in governmental agencies.

Hortonworks Dataow addresses the security and data provenance needs in an electronic worldof distributed real time big data ow management. Hortonworks DataFlow augments existingsystems with a secure, reliable, simplied and integrated big data ingestion platform that ensuresdata security from all sources – be they centrally located, high volume data centers or remotelydistributed data sources over geographically dispersed communication links. As part of itssecurity features, HDF inherently provides end-to-end data provenance—a chain-of-custody fordata. Beyond the ability to meet compliance regulations, provenance provides a method for tracingdata from its point of origin, from any point in the dataow, in order to determine which datasources are most used and most valuable.

WHAT IS DATA

PROVENANCE?

Provenance is dened asthe place of origin or earliestknown history of some thing.In the context of a dataow,data provenance is the abilityto trace the path of a piece ofdata within a dataow fromits place of creation, throughto its nal destination. WithinHortonworks DataFlow data

provenance provides the abilityto visually verify where datacame from, how it was used,who viewed it, whether it wassent, copied, transformedor received. Any system orperson who came in contactwith a specic piece of data iscaptured in its completenessin terms of time, date, action,precedents and dependents fora complete picture of the chainof custody for that precisepiece of data within a dataow.This provenance metadatainformation is used to support

data sharing compliancerequirements as well as fordataow troubleshooting andoptimization.

Figure 4: Secure from source to storage with high delity data provenance


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Data democratization with unprecedented security

Hortonworks DataFlow opens new doors of business insights by enabling secure access withouthindering analysis, as very specic data can be shared or not shared. For example, Mary couldbe given access to discrete pieces of data tagged with the term “nance” within a dataow, whileJan could be given access to the same dataow but with access only to data tagged with “2015”and “revenue”. The removes the disadvantages of role based data access which can inadvertentlycreate security risks, while still enabling democratization of data for comprehensive analysis anddecision making.

Hortonworks Dataow, with its inherent ability to support ne grained provenance data andmetadata throughout the collection, transport and ingest process provides comprehensive anddetailed information needed for audit and remediation unmatched by any existing data ingestsystem in place today.

Figure 5: Fine-grained data access and control


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CASE 3: THE INTERNET OF ANY THING (IOAT)The Internet of Any Thing with Hortonworks DataFlow

Designed in the eld, where resources are scarce (power, connectivity, bandwidth), HortonworksDataFlow is a scalable, proven platform for the acquisition and ingestion of the Internet of Things(IoT), or even more broadly, the Internet of Any Thing (IoAT).

Adaptive to Resource Constraints

There are many challenges in enabling an ever connected yet physically dispersed Internetof Things. Data sources may often be remote, physical footprints may be limited, power andbandwidth are likely to be both variable and constrained. Unreliable connectivity disruptscommunication and causes data loss while the lack of security on most of the world’s deployedsensors puts businesses and safety at risk.

At the same time, devices are producing more data than ever before. Much of the data beingproduced is data-in-motion and unlocking the business value from this data is crucial to businesstransformations of the modern economy.

Yet business transformation relies on accurate, secure access to data from the source through tostorage. Hortonworks DataFlow was designed with all these real-world constraints in mind:power limitations, connectivity uctuations, data security and traceability, data source diversityand geographical distribution, altogether, for accurate, time-sensitive decision making.

Figure 6: A proven platform for the Internet of Things


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Secure Data Collection

Hortonworks Dataow addresses the security needs of IoT with a secure, reliable, simplied andintegrated big data collection platform that ensures data security from distributed data sourcesover geographically dispersed communication links. The security features of HDF includesend-to-end data provenance — a chain-of-custody for data. This enables IoT systems to verifyorigins of the dataow, trouble-shoot problems from point of origin through destination and theability to determine which data sources are most frequently used and most valuable.

Hortonworks DataFlow is able to run security and encryption on small scale, JVM-capable data sources as well as enterprise class datacenters. This enables the Internet of Things with areliable, secure, common data collection and transport platform with a real-time feedback loopto continually and immediately improve algorithms and analysis for accurate, informed on-timedecision making.

Prioritized Data Transfer and Bi-directional Feedback Loop

Because connectivity and available bandwidth may uctuate, and the volume of data beingproduced by the source may exceed that which can be accepted by the destination, HortonworksDataFlow supports the prioritization of data within a dataow. This means that should therebe resource constraints, the data source can be instructed to automatically promote the moreimportant pieces of information to be sent rst, while holding less important data for futurewindows of transmission opportunity, or possibly not sent at all. For example, should an outagefrom a remote device occur, it is critical to send the “most important” data from that device rstas the outage is repaired and communication is re-established, Once this critical “most important”data has been sent, it can then be followed by the backlog of lower priority data that is vital tohistorical analysis, but less critical to immediate decision making.

Hortonworks DataFlow enables the decision to be made at the edge of whether to send, drop orlocally store data, as needed, and as conditions change. Additionally, with a ne grained commandand control interface, data queues can be slowed down, or accelerated to balance the demands ofthe situation at hand with the current availability and cost of resources.

With the ability to seamlessly adapt to resource constraints in real time, ensure secure datacollection and prioritized data transfer, Hortonworks DataFlow is a proven platform ideal for theInternet of Things.


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