Introduction to Distributed Computing Engines for Data Processing - Simone Robutti, Radicalbit

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This document provides an introduction to distributed computing engines for data processing. It discusses what distributed computing systems are and how they address the problem of data and tasks being too large for a single machine. It then covers key distributed computing systems like Hadoop, Spark and Flink. For each system, it summarizes what it is, when and where it originated, why it was created, and how it works at a high level. It also provides brief examples of common use cases for each system today.

Milan – July 13 2016
Introduction to
Distributed Computing Engines for
Data Processing
Simone Robutti
Machine Learning Engineer at Radicalbit
@SimoneRobutti

What is a Distributed Computing System
It’s the solution to the problem where your
RAM is too small and your data are too big
and/or too CPU-intensive to be processed on
a single machine.

What is a Distributed Computing System
Solution: a huge, monolithic mainframe.

What is a Distributed Computing System
Solution: do your job on a cluster.

Distributed vs Parallel
Parallel: execute identical tasks (with different data
or parameters).
Parallel Distributed: do this on multiple machines.
Distributed: split a big task into smaller tasks and
execute them on multiple machines

What is a Distributed Computing System
Goal: the programmer should write its
programs easily and efficiently without caring
about distribution.
Issues: a cluster is complex and conceptually
very far from a local environment.

Hadoop
What: the first OSS distributed computing engine.
When: 2006 (work began).
Where: Google.
Why: Google had a lot of data (for that time) to process. They built
a solution. Eventually it became a series of papers and got
implemented as OSS.
How: HDFS (distributed file system), MapReduce (computational
abstraction), YARN (resource and cluster manager).

MapReduce - Example
Credits to @sergejusb

Hadoop Today
Common in many enterprise environments.
Still good enough for many batch processing use cases.
HDFS and Yarn widely used by other processing engines.
i.e.:
● Log analysis
● Clickstream analysis
● Text processing

Spark
What: a more generic distributed processing engine for batch and
streaming alike.
When: 2014 (1.0 Release).
Where: Berkeley + Databricks.
Why: They aimed for faster and more general processing with
better abstractions on top.
How: InMemory computing, DAG, RDD, polyglot functional API,
libraries out-of-the-box .

Resilient Distributed Dataset
RDDs hide the underlying distribution of data with a functional API

Directed Acyclic Graph
The graph is defined by the user. The runtime translates it to
operations on distributed data.
create filter
filter join
collect
map

Spark Today
The hot topic everyone talks about.
Just entered the phase of maturity, with an already huge and fast-
growing ecosystem of libraries, integrations and tools.
Widely used as the go-to solution for Big Data (and not-so-Big) use
cases.
I.e.:
● Recommending systems
● Fraud Detection
● Attack-Detection
● Near-Real time decision-heavy solutions

Flink
What: a streaming first (with batch on top), low latency distributed
processing engine.
When: 2016 (1.0 Release).
Where: German Research Foundation + dataArtisans.
Why: a faster and flexible computational model that could
guarantee low latency, high-throughput and fault-tolerance all at the
same time.
How: streaming-first approach, checkpointing, lazy symbolic
computation, powerful optimizations.

Flink Today
Perceived as an alternative to Spark. Gaining traction for specific
use-cases (real-time streaming) but performs well on most generic
uses cases.
Solid runtime and optimization; API and ecosystem still young.
Many big companies already adopted it for fast-data applications.
I.e.:
● Real-time precise analytics (counting)
● Real-time model evaluation
● Online Learning solutions

Alternative solutions
● Apache Storm/Heron
● Apache Samza
● Apache GearPump
● Apache Apex

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