Design advantages of Hadoop ETL offload with the Intel processor-powered Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution

JULY 2015
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Dell
DESIGN ADVANTAGES OF HADOOP ETL OFFLOAD WITH THE INTEL
PROCESSOR-POWERED DELL | CLOUDERA | SYNCSORT
Many companies are adopting Hadoop solutions to handle large amounts of
data stored across clusters of servers. Hadoop is a distributed, scalable approach to
managing Big Data that is very powerful and can bring great value to organizations.
Companies use extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs to bring together data from many
different applications or systems on different hardware in order to modify or adjust the
data in some way, and then put it into a new format that they can mine for useful
information.
Using traditional ETL can require highly experienced, expensive, and hard-to-
find programmers to create jobs in order to extract data. Dell, Cloudera, and Syncsort
offer an integrated Hadoop ETL solution that allows entry-level technicians—after only a
few days of training—to perform the same tasks that these Hadoop specialists perform,
often even more quickly. In our tests, we found that with the unique design of the Dell |
Cloudera | Syncsort solution can allow an end user with little experience using Hadoop
to develop and deploy optimized ETL jobs up to 58.8 percent faster than an expert-
driven do-it-yourself (DIY) solution deployed using open-source tools.

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SAVE TIME CREATING ETL JOBS WITH THE DELL | CLOUDERA | SYNCSORT
SOLUTION
Hadoop implementations suffer from several barriers to effectiveness. They
often have primitive integration with infrastructure, and today we find there is currently
a lack of available talent to run Hadoop clusters and perform data ingest and processing
tasks using the cluster.1
The Dell | Syncsort solution offers help with both of these
problems.
The Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution is a reference architecture that offers a
reliable, tested configuration that incorporates Dell hardware on the Cloudera Hadoop
platform, with Syncsort’s DMX-h ETL software. The Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort reference
architecture includes four Dell PowerEdge R730xd servers and two Dell PowerEdge R730
servers, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family.
For organizations that want to optimize their data warehouse environments, the
Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort reference architecture can greatly reduce the time needed to
deploy Hadoop when using the included setup and configuration documentation as well
as the validated best practices. Leveraging the Syncsort DMX-h software means Hadoop
ETL jobs can be developed using a graphical interface in a matter of hours, with minor
amounts of training, and with no need to spend days developing code. The Dell |
Cloudera | Syncsort solution also offers professional services with Hadoop and ETL
experts to help fast track your project to successful completion.2
To understand how fast and easy designing ETL jobs with the Dell | Cloudera |
Syncsort solution can be, we had an entry-level technician and a highly experienced
Hadoop expert work to create three Hadoop ETL jobs using different approaches to
meet the goals of several use cases.
The entry-level worker, who had no familiarity with Hadoop and less than one
year of general server experience, used Syncsort DMX-h to carry out these tasks. Our
expert had 18 years of experience designing, deploying, administering, and
benchmarking enterprise-level relational database management systems (RDBMS). He
has deployed, managed, and benchmarked Hadoop clusters, covering several Hadoop
distributions and several Big Data strategies. He designed and created the use cases
using only free open-source DIY tools.
1
Source: survey of attendees for the 2014 Gartner webinar Hadoop 2.0 Signals Time for Serious Big Data Consideration.
www.informationweek.com/big-data/software-platforms/cloudera-trash-talks-with-enterprise-data-hub-release/d/d-id/1113677
2 Learn more at en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/dell4enterprise/b/dell4enterprise/archive/2015/06/09/fast-track-data-
strategies-etl-offload-hadoop-reference-architecture
Extract, Transform, and
Load
ETL refers to the
following process in
database usage and data
warehousing:
• Extract the data from
multiple sources
• Transform the data so
it can be stored properly
for querying and analysis
• Load the data into the
final database,
operational data store,
data mart, or data
warehouse

The implementation experience of these two workers showed us that using the
Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution was faster, easier, and—because a less experienced
employee could use it to create ETL jobs—far less expensive to implement. In this cost
analysis, we apply those findings to a hypothetical large enterprise.
Figure 1: Our entry-level
employee completed the three
ETL design jobs using the Dell |
Cloudera | Syncsort solution in
less than half the time the much
more experienced engineer
required using other tools.
(Lower numbers are better.)
As Figure 1 shows, the beginner using the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution
was able to complete the three ETL design jobs in a total of 31 hours, whereas the
senior engineer using open-source tools needed 67 hours—more than twice as long.
Note that in addition to actually coding/designing the use cases, both of the workers
spent time familiarizing themselves with the requirements, revising to correct output
issues, and validating results.
Along with the savings3
that come from having a less highly compensated
employee perform the design work more quickly, the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution
offers another avenue to cost-effectiveness: performance. Additional testing in the PT
labs4
revealed that due to their extreme efficiency, the ETL jobs our entry-level worker
created using Syncsort DMX-h ran more quickly than those our highly compensated
expert created. This can lead to savings in server utilization.
In this paper, we provide a quick overview of the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort
solution and then discuss the experience the entry-level technician had while receiving
training and using the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution.
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Cost advantages of Hadoop ETL offload with the Intel processor-powered Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution
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Performance advantages of Hadoop ETL offload with the Intel processor-powered Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution
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ABOUT SYNCSORT DMX-h
Syncsort DMX-h is a high-performance data integration software that runs
natively in Hadoop, providing everything needed to collect, prepare, blend, transform,
and distribute data. DMX-h, with its Intelligent Execution, allows users to graphically
design sophisticated data flows once and deploy on any compute framework (Apache
MapReduce, Spark, etc. on premise or in the cloud), future-proofing the applications
while eliminating the need for coding.
Using an architecture that runs ETL processing natively in Hadoop, without code
generation, Syncsort DMX-h lets users maximize performance without compromising on
the capabilities and typical use cases of conventional ETL tools. In addition, the software
packages’ industrial-grade capabilities to deploy, manage, monitor, and secure your
Hadoop environment.
Figure 2: How the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution for Hadoop works.
Syncsort SILQ®
Syncsort SILQ is a technology that pairs well with DMX-h. SILQ is a SQL offload
utility designed to help users visualize and move their expensive data warehouse
(SQL) data integration workloads into Hadoop. SILQ supports a wide range of SQL
flavors and can parse thousands of lines of SQL code in seconds, outputting logic
flowcharts, job analysis, and DMX-h jobs. SILQ has the potential to take an
overwhelming SQL workload migration process and make it simple and efficient.

About Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort training and professional services
An integral part of the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution is the on-site training
that the company makes available for a fee. This training typically lasts four days.
However, because of our tight time frame, our technician worked with the trainer for
two and a half intensive days. The points below are based on the reflections of the
technician:
 The training sessions were a mix of lecture, lessons, and question and
answer.
 The technician logged into Syncsort’s training labs where VMs were set up
with Hadoop clusters ready for practicing on.
 The technician was able to ask the instructor anything, which helped him
get a sense of best practices and how other people are currently using the
product.
 In addition to learning how to use DMX-h, the technician also learned how
to use Syncsort’s documentation effectively, which made building jobs much
easier.
 By the end of the training, the technician felt he had been well exposed to
every area of Syncsort DMX-h.
Another important component of the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution is
ongoing enablement assistance that the company makes available for a fee. (Technical
support to answer questions about the product is included with the purchase price.) The
points below are based on the reflections of the technician:
 After setting up his first job in a matter of hours, our technician sought
approval from Syncsort. Their enablement assistance team helped him
finalize and tweak his job for performance.
 When our technician had a question about his output being formatted
correctly, the Syncsort team looked at his job definitions and provided
feedback.

THE ETL JOBS OUR WORKERS DESIGNED
In our tests, both the entry-level technician and the senior engineer used the
same source dataset on the HDFS cluster, generated from the TPC-H dataset at scale
factor 200. The entry-level technician utilized Syncsort DMX-h to develop the ETL job for
each use case, while the senior engineer had the flexibility to utilize the publically
available open-source tools of their choice. The senior engineer chose to utilize Apache®
Pig because of its procedural nature rather than other commonly used tools, such as
Apache Hive.
For each of the three use cases, we compared the resulting output of the two
ETL jobs to ensure that they achieved the same business goals. See Appendix A for more
details on our ETL jobs.
Use case 1: Fact dimension load with Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)
Businesses often feed their Business Intelligence decisions using the
Dimensional Fact Model, which uses a set of dimensional tables (tables with active and
historical data about a specific category, such as Geography or Time) to feed a fact table
(a table that joins the active records of all the dimensional tables on a common field)
summarizing current business activity. While some dimension tables never change,
some often experience updates. The dimension tables must be up-to-date to feed the
fact table correctly, and many businesses would like to keep historical data as well for
archival purposes.
A common method to identify changes in data is to compare historical and
current data using Changed Data Capture (CDC). A common method for updating
records while retaining the outdated record is Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions
(SCD). We used outer joins and conditional formatting to implement CDC and identify
changed records. We then implemented Type 2 SCD to mark outdated records with an
end-date and insert the updated data as a new, current record (in our case we used a
perpetual end-date of 12/31/9999 to specify a current record). We then fed the
information from the dimensional tables downstream to a fact table that could be
queried for Business Intelligence.
Figure 3 shows the Syncsort DMX-h job editor with the completed use case 1
design. The individual boxes represent tasks, while the arrows between the tasks
represent data flow.

Figure 3: Syncsort DMX-h
job editor showing the
completed use case 1
design.
Both the entry-level technician using the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution and
the senior engineer using open-source DIY tools were able to design effective jobs to
perform Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions to feed the Dimensional Fact Model. The
beginner was able to design the job 47.8 percent faster than the senior engineer (see
Figure 4).
Figure 4: Time to design the
Fact dimension load with Type
2 SCD use case. (Lower
numbers are better.)

Use case 2: Data validation and pre-processing
Data validation is an important part of any ETL process. It is important for a
business to ensure that only usable data makes it into their data warehouse. And, that
when data is unusable, it’s important to mark that unusable data with an error message
explaining why it’s invalid. Data validation can be performed with conditions and filters
to check for and discard data that is badly formatted or nonsensical.
design, which pictures the metadata panel showing a sample of the conditions used to
reformat and validate the data.
Figure 5: Syncsort DMX-h job
editor showing the completed
use case 2 design.
the senior engineer using open-source DIY tools were able to design effective jobs to
perform accurate data validation, but the beginner was able to design the job 55.6
percent faster than the senior engineer using Apache Pig (see Figure 6). The Syncsort
DMX-h graphical user interface made it easy to quickly try new filters and sample the
outputs. Being able to rapidly prototype the data validation job meant less time spent
revising.

Figure 6: Time to create the
Data validation and pre-
processing use case. (Lower
Use case 3: Vendor mainframe file integration
The need to reformat heterogeneous data sources into a more useable format is
a common requirement of businesses with many varied data sources. Often companies
have high-value data locked away in the mainframe and want to assimilate that data
into the cluster. Some mainframe data types use a COBOL copybook to specify field
formats. Syncsort DMX-h makes the process of reformatting mainframe data sources
easy by allowing the user to link a COBOL copybook into metadata and automatically
interpret the flat file’s record layout—one of many data integration features Syncsort
DMX-h offers. Syncsort DMX-h enabled an inexperienced IT person with no prior
exposure to mainframe-formatted files to interpret these legacy data types, all without
disturbing the integrity of the original data.
design. The task shows a single mainframe-formatted data source being split into two
ASCII-formatted outputs.

Figure 7: Syncsort DMX-h
job editor showing the
completed use case 3
design.
the senior engineer using open source DIY tools were able to design effective jobs to
reformat the mainframe data successfully, but the beginner was able to design the job
58.8 percent faster (see Figure 8).
Figure 8: Time to create the
Vendor mainframe file
integration use case. (Lower

CONCLUSION
High-level Hadoop analysis requires custom solutions to deliver the data that
you need and the amount of time that even senior engineers require to create ETL jobs
in a DIY hardware and software situation, can be substantial.
We found that the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution was so easy to use that an
entry-level employee could use it to create optimized ETL jobs after only a few days of
training. And he could do it quickly—our technician, who had no previous experience
using Hadoop, developed three optimized ETL jobs in 31 hours. That is less than half of
the 68 hours our expert with years of Hadoop experience needed to create the same
jobs using open source tools.
Using the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution means that your organization can
implement a Hadoop solution using employees already on your staff rather than trying
to recruit expensive, difficult-to-find specialists. Not only that, but the projects can be
completed in a fraction of the time. This makes the Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort solution a
winning business proposition.

APPENDIX A – HOW WE TESTED
Installing the Dell | Cloudera Apache Hadoop Solution
We installed Cloudera Hadoop (CDH) version 5.4 onto our cluster by following the “Dell | Cloudera Apache
Hadoop Solution Deployment Guide – Version 5.4” with some modifications. The following is a high-level summary of
this process.
Configuring the Dell Force10 S55 and Dell PowerConnect S4810 switches
We used the Dell Force10 S55 switch for 1GbE external management access from our lab to the Edge Node. We
configured two Dell PowerConnect S4810 switches for redundant 10GbE cluster traffic.
Configuring the BIOS, firmware, and RAID settings on the hosts
We used the Dell Deployment Tool Kit to configure our hosts before OS installation. We performed these steps
on each host.
1. Boot into the Dell DTK USB drive using BIOS boot mode.
2. Once the CentOS environment loads, choose the node type (infrastructure or storage), and enter the iDRAC
connection details.
3. Allow the system to boot into Lifecycle Controller and apply the changes. Once this is complete, the system will
automatically reboot once more.
Installing the OS on the hosts
We installed CentOS 6.5 using a kickstart file with the settings recommended by the Deployment Guide. We
performed these steps on each node.
1. Boot into a minimal CentOS ISO and press Tab at the splash screen to enter boot options.
2. Enter the kickstart string and required options, and press Enter to install the OS.
3. When the OS is installed, run yum updates on each node, and reboot to fully update the OS.
Installing Cloudera Manager and distributing CDH to all nodes
We used Installation Path A in the Cloudera support documentation to guide our Hadoop installation. We chose
to place Cloudera Manager on the Edge Node so that we could easily access it from our lab network.
1. On the Edge Node, use wget to download the latest cloudera-manager-installer.bin, located on
archive.cloudera.com.
4. Run the installer and select all defaults.
5. Navigate to Cloudera Manager by pointing a web browser to
http://<Edge_Node_IP_address>:7180.
6. Log into Cloudera Manager using the default credentials admin/admin.
7. Install the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Edition Trial with the following options:
a. Enter each host’s IP address.
b. Leave the default repository options.
c. Install the Oracle Java SE Development Kit (JDK).
d. Do not check the single user mode checkbox.
e. Enter the root password for host connectivity.
8. After the Host Inspector checks the cluster for correctness, choose the following Custom Services:
a. HDFS
b. Hive

c. Hue
d. YARN (MR2 Included)
9. Assign roles to the hosts using Figure 9.
Service Role Node(s)
HBase
Master nn01
HBase REST Server nn01
HBase Thrift Server nn01
Region Server nn01
HDFS
NameNode nn01
Secondary NameNode en01
Balancer en01
HttpFS nn01
NFS Gateway nn01
DataNode dn[01-04]
Hive
Gateway [all nodes]
Hive Metastore Server en01
WebHCat Server en01
HiveServer2 en01
Hue
Hue Server en01
Impala
Catalog Server nn01
Impala StateStore nn01
Impala Daemon nn01
Key-value Store Indexer
Lily Hbase Indexer nn01
Cloudera Management Service
Service Monitor en01
Activity Monitor en01
Host Monitor en01
Reports Manager en01
Event Server en01
Alert Publisher en01
Oozie
Oozie Server nn01
Solr
Solr Server nn01
Spark
History Server nn01
Gateway nn01

Service Role Node(s)
Sqoop 2
Sqoop 2 Server nn01
YARN (MR2 Included)
ResourceManager nn01
JobHistory Server nn01
NodeManager dn[01-04]
Zookeeper
Server nn01, en01, en01
Figure 9: Role assignments.
10. At the Database Setup screen, copy down the embedded database credentials and test the connection. If the
connections are successful, proceed through the wizard to complete the Cloudera installation.
Installing the Syncsort DMX-h environment
Installation of the Syncsort DMX-h environment involves installing the Job Editor onto a Windows server,
distributing the DMX-h parcel to all Hadoop nodes, and installing the dmxd service onto the NameNode. We used the
30-day trial license in our setup.
Installing Syncsort DMX-h onto Windows
We used a Windows VM with access to the NameNode to run the Syncsort DMX-h job editor.
1. Run dmexpress_8-1-0_windows_x86.exe on the Windows VM and follow the wizard steps to install the
job editor.
Distributing the DMX-h parcel via Cloudera Manager
We downloaded the DMX-h parcel to the Cloudera parcel repository and used Cloudera Manager to pick it up
and send it to every node.
1. Copy dmexpress-8.1.7-el6.parcel_en.bin to the EdgeNode and set execute permissions for the
root user.
2. Run dmexpress-8.1.7-el6.parcel_en.bin and set the extraction directory to /opt/cloudera/parcel-repo.
3. In Cloudera Manager, navigate to the Parcels section and distribute the DMExpress parcel to all nodes.
Installing the dmxd daemon on the NameNode
We placed the dmxd daemon on the NameNode in order to have it in the same location as the YARN
ResourceManager.
1. Copy dmexpress-8.1.7-1.x86_64_en.bin to the NameNode and set execute permissions for the root
user.
2. Run dmexpress-8.1.7-el6.parcel_en.bin to install the dmxd daemon.
Post-install configuration
We made a number of changes to the cluster in order to suit our environment and increase performance.
Relaxing HDFS permissions
We allowed the root user to read and write to HDFS, in order to simplify the process of performance testing.
1. In Cloudera Manager, search for “Check HDFS Permissions” and uncheck the HDFS (Service-Wide) checkbox.

Setting YARN parameters
We made a number of parameter adjustments to increase resource limits for our map-reduce jobs. These
parameters can be found using the Cloudera Manager search bar. Figure 10 shows the parameters we changed.
Parameter New value
yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb 80 GiB
yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores 35
yarn.scheduler.maimum-allocation-mb 16 GiB
Figure 10: YARN resource parameter adjustments.
Custom XML file for DMX-h jobs
We created an XML file to set cluster parameters for each job. In the Job Editor, set the environment variable
DMX_HADOOP_CONF_FILE to the XML file path. The contents of the XML file are below.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>

<property>
<name>mapreduce.map.cpu.vcores</name>
<value>2</value>
</property>

<property>
<name>mapreduce.reduce.cpu.vcores</name>
<value>4</value>
</property>

<property>
<name>mapreduce.map.java.opts</name>
<value>-Xmx2048m</value>
</property>

<property>
<name>mapreduce.reduce.java.opts</name>
<value>-Xmx7168m</value>
</property>

<property>

<name>mapreduce.map.memory.mb</name>
<value>2560</value>
</property>

<property>
<name>mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb</name>
<value>8704</value>
</property>

<property>
<name>mapreduce.job.reduces</name>
<value>32</value>
</property>
</configuration>
Creating the Syncsort DMX-h use cases
In our testing, we measured the time required to design and create DMX-h jobs for three use cases. Screenshots
of the DMX-h jobs for each use case appear below.
We used outer joins and conditional reformatting to implement Type 2 SCD for Use Case 1. Figure 11 shows the
UC1 job layout.
Figure 11: Use Case 1 job
layout.

We used a copy task with conditional filters to implement Data Validation for Use Case 2. Figure 12 shows the
UC2 job layout.
layout.
We used a copy task with imported metadata to implement Vendor Mainframe File Integration for use case 3.
Figure 13 shows the UC3 job layout.
layout.

Creating the DIY use cases
We used Pig, Python and Java to implement the DIY approaches to each use case. The DIY code for each use case
appears below.
set pig.maxCombinedSplitSize 2147483648
set pig.exec.mapPartAgg true
-- uc1
-----------------
-----------------
-- parameters and constants
-- input and output files
%DECLARE IN_O_UPDATES '/UC1/200/Source/orders.tbl'
%DECLARE IN_P_UPDATES '/UC1/200/Source/part.tbl'
%DECLARE IN_S_UPDATES '/UC1/200/Source/supplier.tbl'
%DECLARE IN_O_HISTORY '/UC1/200/Source/ORDERS_DIM_HISTORY'
%DECLARE IN_P_HISTORY '/UC1/200/Source/PART_DIM_HISTORY'
%DECLARE IN_S_HISTORY '/UC1/200/Source/SUPPLIER_DIM_HISTORY'
%DECLARE IN_LINEITEM '/UC1/200/Source/lineitem.tbl'
%DECLARE OUT_O_HISTORY '/DIY/200/UC1/ORDERS_DIM_HISTORY'
%DECLARE OUT_P_HISTORY '/DIY/200/UC1/PART_DIM_HISTORY'
%DECLARE OUT_S_HISTORY '/DIY/200/UC1/SUPPLIER_DIM_HISTORY'
%DECLARE OUT_FACT '/DIY/200/UC1/SOLD_PARTS_DIM_FACT'
-- "interior" fields for the i/o tables. needed to assist with column projections
%DECLARE HI_O_FIELDS
'ho_custkey,ho_orderstatus,ho_totalprice,ho_orderdate,ho_orderpriority,ho_clerk,ho_shippr
iority'
%DECLARE HI_P_FIELDS
'hp_name,hp_mfgr,hp_brand,hp_type,hp_size,hp_container,hp_retailprice'
%DECLARE HI_S_FIELDS 'hs_name,hs_address,hs_nationkey,hs_phone,hs_acctbal'
%DECLARE UP_O_FIELDS
'uo_custkey,uo_orderstatus,uo_totalprice,uo_orderdate,uo_orderpriority,uo_clerk,uo_shippr
iority'
%DECLARE UP_P_FIELDS
'up_name,up_mfgr,up_brand,up_type,up_size,up_container,up_retailprice'
%DECLARE UP_S_FIELDS 'us_name,us_address,us_nationkey,us_phone,us_acctbal'
-- Option to use replicated JOIN for the supplier name lookup.
-- use it
%DECLARE USE_REP_JOIN 'USING 'REPLICATED'' ;
-- don’t use it
-- %DECLARE USE_REP_JOIN ' ' ;
-- tag in end-date fieldstop signify an active records
%DECLARE OPEN_REC '12/31/9999'
-- tags for start/end date fields
%DECLARE TODAY_REC `date +%m/%d/%Y`
%DECLARE YESTE_REC `date --date="1 days ago" +%m/%d/%Y`
IMPORT 'uc1_macros.pig';

-----------------
-----------------
-- supplier, new history
supplier = update_history('$IN_S_UPDATES', '$IN_S_HISTORY', '$UP_S_FIELDS',
'$HI_S_FIELDS');
STORE supplier INTO '$OUT_S_HISTORY' USING PigStorage('|');
-- part, new history
part = update_history('$IN_P_UPDATES', '$IN_P_HISTORY', '$UP_P_FIELDS', '$HI_P_FIELDS');
STORE part INTO '$OUT_P_HISTORY' USING PigStorage('|');
-- orders, new history
orders = update_history('$IN_O_UPDATES', '$IN_O_HISTORY', '$UP_O_FIELDS',
'$HI_O_FIELDS');
STORE orders INTO '$OUT_O_HISTORY' USING PigStorage('|');
----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
-- drop expired records
supplier = FILTER supplier BY h_enddate == '$OPEN_REC';
part = FILTER part BY h_enddate == '$OPEN_REC';
orders = FILTER orders BY h_enddate == '$OPEN_REC';
-- data for fact table
lineitem = lOAD '$IN_LINEITEM' USING PigStorage('|') AS (
l_orderkey,l_partkey,l_suppkey,
l_linenumber,l_quantity,l_extendedprice,l_discount,l_tax,l_returnflag,
l_linestatus,l_shipdate,l_commitdate,
l_receiptdate,l_shipinstruct,l_shipmode,l_comment
);
-- dereference supplier and save required keys (drop l_suppkey)
lineitem = JOIN lineitem by l_suppkey LEFT OUTER, supplier by h_key;
lineitem = FOREACH lineitem GENERATE
l_orderkey,l_partkey,
hs_name,hs_nationkey,hs_acctbal,supplier::h_startdate,l_linenumber .. l_comment;
-- dereference part and save required keys (drop l_partkey)
lineitem = JOIN lineitem by l_partkey LEFT OUTER, part by h_key;
l_orderkey,
hp_name,hp_mfgr,hp_brand,hp_type,hp_retailprice,part::h_startdate,hs_name ..
l_comment;
-- dereference orders and save required keys (drop l_orderkey)

lineitem = JOIN lineitem by l_orderkey LEFT OUTER, orders by h_key;
ho_custkey,ho_orderstatus,ho_totalprice,ho_orderdate,orders::h_startdate,hp_name ..
l_comment;
----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
STORE lineitem INTO '$OUT_FACT' USING PigStorage('|');
uc1_macros.pig
DEFINE update_history(in_updates, in_history, update_fields, history_fields) RETURNS
history {
-- update tables
updates = LOAD '$in_updates' USING PigStorage('|') AS (
u_key, $update_fields, u_comment
);
-- historical tables
historical = LOAD '$in_history' USING PigStorage('|') AS (
h_key, $history_fields, h_comment, h_startdate:chararray,h_enddate:chararray
);
-- remove expired records from the historical data and save for final table
SPLIT historical INTO
in_unexpired IF (h_enddate matches '^$OPEN_REC$'),
in_expired OTHERWISE;
-- full join by primary key to determine matches and left/right uniques
joined = JOIN
updates by u_key FULL OUTER,
in_unexpired by h_key;
SPLIT joined INTO
new IF h_key IS NULL, -- totally new entry from updates
old IF u_key IS NULL, -- unmatched historical entry
matched OTHERWISE; -- match primary key: either redundant or updated entry
-- format new and old entries for output
new = FOREACH new GENERATE u_key .. u_comment, '$TODAY_REC', '$OPEN_REC';
old = FOREACH old GENERATE h_key .. h_enddate;
-- find updated entries
SPLIT matched INTO
updates IF ( TOTUPLE($update_fields, u_comment) != TOTUPLE($history_fields,
h_comment) ),
redundant OTHERWISE;
-- format redundant entries for output
redundant = FOREACH redundant GENERATE h_key .. h_enddate;
-- updated entry: expire historical; tag update
modified = FOREACH updates GENERATE u_key .. u_comment, '$TODAY_REC', '$OPEN_REC';
expired = FOREACH updates GENERATE h_key .. h_startdate, '$YESTE_REC';
-- combine the record classes
$history = UNION in_expired, new, old, redundant, modified, expired;
};

-----------------------------
-----------------------------
-- parameter and constants definitions
%DECLARE IN_LINEITEM_VENDOR '/UC2/200/Source/lineitem_vendorx.tbl'
%DECLARE IN_SUPPLIER '/UC2/200/Source/supplier.tbl'
%DECLARE OUT_GOOD '/DIY/200/UC2/lineitem_validated'
%DECLARE OUT_BAD '/DIY/200/UC2/lineitem_errors'
-- Option to use replicated JOIN for the supplier name lookup.
-- use it
%DECLARE USE_REP_JOIN 'USING 'REPLICATED'' ;
-- don’t use it
-- %DECLARE USE_REP_JOIN ' ' ;
-- REGEX to match valid Gregorian dates in the form yyyy-mm-dd for
-- years 0000 to 9999 (as a mathematical concept, not political).
%DECLARE VALID_DATE '^(?:d{4}-(?:(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|1d|2[0-8])|(?:0[13-
9]|1[0-2])-(?:29|30)|(?:0[13578]|1[02])-
31)|(?:d{2}(?:[02468][48]|[13579][26]|[2468]0)|(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])00)-02-
29)$'
-- header for invalid data error message field and other nerror messages
%DECLARE ERR_MSG_HEAD 'ERROR(S) in LINEITEM source record:'
%DECLARE ORD_ERR ' invalid L_ORDERKEY value;'
%DECLARE PAR_ERR ' invalid L_PARTKEY value;'
%DECLARE SUP_ERR ' invalid L_SUPPKEY value;'
%DECLARE LIN_ERR ' invalid L_LINENUMBER value;'
%DECLARE QUN_ERR ' invalid L_QUANTITY value;'
%DECLARE DIS_ERR ' invalid L_DISCOUNT value;'
%DECLARE TAX_ERR ' invalid L_TAX value;'
%DECLARE RET_ERR ' L_RETURNFLAG must be one of A,N,R;'
%DECLARE LIS_ERR ' L_LINESTATUS must be one of O,F;'
%DECLARE SHI_ERR ' L_SHIPMODE must be one of AIR,FOB,MAIL,RAIL,REG AIR,SHIP,TRUCK;'
%DECLARE NAM_ERR ' supplier lookup failed;'
%DECLARE COD_ERR ' invalid L_COMMITDATE;'
%DECLARE SHD_ERR ' invalid L_SHIPDATE;'
%DECLARE RED_ERR ' invalid L_RECEIPTDATE;'
%DECLARE SRD_ERR ' L_SHIPDATE after L_RECEIPTDATE;'
-----------------------------
-----------------------------
-- start of the main program
-- data to be validated
lineitem = LOAD '$IN_LINEITEM_VENDOR' USING PigStorage('|') AS (
l_orderkey:int, l_partkey:int, l_suppkey:int, l_linenumber:int, l_quantity:int,
l_extendedprice:float, l_discount:float, l_tax:float,
l_returnflag:chararray, l_linestatus:chararray,

l_shipdate:chararray, l_commitdate:chararray, l_receiptdate:chararray,
l_shipinstruct:chararray, l_shipmode:chararray,
l_comment);
-- lookup table for supplier name and validation
-- only first two columns from supplier
suppnames = LOAD '$IN_SUPPLIER' USING PigStorage('|') AS (
s_suppkey:int, s_name:chararray);
-- anti join idiom (completed below) for the supplier lookup (i.e., null is if unmatched)
-- We use known cardinality of TPC-H tables (supplier is small; lineitem is
-- huge) to choose JOIN type. For example, when the TPC-H SF is 1000, the entire
-- supplier table is about 1.4GB and 10,000,000 rows. So, we know the supplier table
-- with two fields will fit (partitioned or not) in RAM -- so replicated JOIN
good1 = JOIN lineitem BY l_suppkey LEFT OUTER, suppnames BY s_suppkey $USE_REP_JOIN ;
good2 = FOREACH good1 GENERATE
--
-- start of error message
CONCAT('$ERR_MSG_HEAD', CONCAT(
(l_orderkey > 0 ? '' : '$ORD_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_partkey > 0 ? '' : '$PAR_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_suppkey > 0 ? '' : '$SUP_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_linenumber > 0 ? '' : '$LIN_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_quantity > 0 ? '' : '$QUN_ERR'), CONCAT(
((l_discount >= 0.0F AND l_discount <= 1.0F)
? '' : '$DIS_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_tax >= 0.0F ? '' : '$TAX_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_returnflag IN ('A','N','R')
? '' : '$RET_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_linestatus IN ('F','O')
? '' : '$LIS_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_shipmode IN ('AIR','FOB','MAIL','RAIL','REG AIR','SHIP','TRUCK')
? '' : '$SHI_ERR'), CONCAT(
(s_name is NOT NULL ? '' : '$NAM_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_commitdate matches '$VALID_DATE'
? '' : '$COD_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_shipdate matches '$VALID_DATE'
? '' : '$SHD_ERR'), CONCAT(
(l_receiptdate matches '$VALID_DATE'
? '' : '$RED_ERR'), -- last CONCAT
((l_shipdate matches '$VALID_DATE' AND l_receiptdate matches '$VALID_DATE')
? ((DaysBetween(ToDate(l_receiptdate,'yyyy-MM-
dd'),ToDate(l_shipdate, 'yyyy-MM-dd')) >= 0)
? '' : '$SRD_ERR' )
: '')
))))))))))))))) AS err_message,
-- end of error message
--
l_orderkey .. l_suppkey, s_name, l_linenumber .. l_shipmode,
--
-- start of shipping time and rating as a TUPLE
((l_shipdate matches '$VALID_DATE' AND l_receiptdate matches '$VALID_DATE')
? TOTUPLE((int)DaysBetween(ToDate(l_receiptdate,'yyyy-MM-
dd'),ToDate(l_shipdate, 'yyyy-MM-dd')),

(CASE (int)DaysBetween(ToDate(l_receiptdate,'yyyy-MM-
dd'),ToDate(l_shipdate, 'yyyy-MM-dd'))
WHEN 0 THEN 'A' WHEN 1 THEN 'A' WHEN 2 THEN 'A'
WHEN 3 THEN 'A'
WHEN 4 THEN 'B' WHEN 5 THEN 'B' WHEN 6 THEN 'B'
WHEN 7 THEN 'B'
WHEN 8 THEN 'C' WHEN 9 THEN 'C' WHEN 10 THEN 'C'
WHEN 11 THEN 'C' WHEN 12 THEN 'C' WHEN 13 THEN 'C'
ELSE 'D' END ) )
: TOTUPLE( 999, 'Z')) AS t1:tuple(shippingtime_days:int,
shipping_ratingi:chararray),
-- end of shipping time and rating as a TUPLE
--
l_comment;
SPLIT good2 INTO
good IF ENDSWITH(err_message, ':'),
bad OTHERWISE;
good = FOREACH good GENERATE l_orderkey .. l_shipmode, FLATTEN(t1), l_comment;
bad = FOREACH bad GENERATE err_message .. l_suppkey, l_linenumber .. l_shipmode,
l_comment;
STORE good into '$OUT_GOOD' USING PigStorage('|');
STORE bad into '$OUT_BAD' USING PigStorage('|');

-- uc3
-- djs, 13 july 2015
-----------------
-----------------
-- parameters and constants
%DECLARE IN_ORDERITEM '/UC3/200/Source/ORDRITEM'
%DECLARE OUT_ORDERS '/DIY/200/UC3/orders'
%DECLARE OUT_LINEITEM '/DIY/200/UC3/lineitem'
-----------------
-----------------
-- job parameterrs
-- set the property for fixed-lengthed records; unsure which it is
set mapreduce.input.fixedlengthinputformat.record.length 178;
set mapreduce.lib.input.fixedlengthinputformat.record.length 178;
set fixedlengthinputformat.record.length 178;
-- UDF loader: fixed-length reads and ebscdic decoing
register myudfs.jar;
-----------------
-----------------
-- this UDF loader reads fixed-length records (178 bytes), and performs
-- EBCDIC conversion on the string and formats the fields, using the fixed
-- copybook format for this table. A loader that works for
-- general-purpose copybooks is out of scope, but could be done with the
-- Jrecord classes.
cobol = LOAD '$IN_ORDERITEM' USING myudfs.SimpleFixedLengthLoader;
SPLIT cobol INTO
orders if (chararray)$0 == 'O',
lineitem if (chararray)$0 == 'L';
-- remove record-type field
orders = FOREACH orders GENERATE $1 .. ;
lineitem = FOREACH lineitem GENERATE $1 .. ;
store orders into '$OUT_ORDERS' USING PigStorage('|');
store lineitem into '$OUT_LINEITEM' USING PigStorage('|');
SimpleFixedLengthLoader.java
package myudfs;
/* compile with, for example,
CP=/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.4.3-1.cdh5.4.3.p0.6/lib/pig/pig-0.12.0-cdh5.4.3.jar
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_67-cloudera/bin

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_67-cloudera
javac -cp $CP SimpleFixedLengthLoader.java
*/
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.InputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.RecordReader;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FixedLengthInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.BytesWritable;
import org.apache.pig.FileInputLoadFunc;
import org.apache.pig.LoadFunc;
import org.apache.pig.PigException;
import org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigSplit;
import org.apache.pig.data.DataByteArray;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.data.TupleFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
public class SimpleFixedLengthLoader extends LoadFunc {
protected RecordReader in = null;
private ArrayList<Object> mTuple = null;
private TupleFactory mTupleFactory = TupleFactory.getInstance();
public SimpleFixedLengthLoader() {
}
@Override
public Tuple getNext()
throws IOException {
mTuple = new ArrayList<Object>();
try {
if (!in.nextKeyValue()) {
return null;
}
BytesWritable val = (BytesWritable) in.getCurrentValue();
byte[] buf = val.getBytes();
String str = new String(buf, 0, 178, "Cp037");
addTupleValue(mTuple, doSingle(str, 0)); // record type
switch ( str.charAt(0) ) {
case 'O':
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanL(str, 1, 13)); // orderkey
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanL(str, 13, 25)); // custkey
addTupleValue(mTuple, doSingle(str, 25)); // orderstatus
addTupleValue(mTuple, unpackBCD(buf, 26, 34)); // totalprice
addTupleValue(mTuple, doDate(str, 34)); // orderdate
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanR(str, 42, 57)); // orderpriority
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanR(str, 57, 72)); // clerk
addTupleValue(mTuple, doSingle(str, 72)); // shippriority
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanR(str, 73, 152)); // comment

break;
case 'L':
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanL(str, 1, 13)); // orderkey
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanL(str, 13, 25)); // partkey
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanL(str, 25, 37)); // suppkey
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanL(str, 37, 41)); // linenumber
addTupleValue(mTuple, unpackBCD(buf, 41, 49)); // quantity
addTupleValue(mTuple, unpackBCD(buf, 49, 57)); // extendedprice
addTupleValue(mTuple, unpackBCD(buf, 57, 65)); // discount
addTupleValue(mTuple, unpackBCD(buf, 65, 73)); // tax
addTupleValue(mTuple, doSingle(str, 73)); // returnflag
addTupleValue(mTuple, doSingle(str, 74)); // linestatus
addTupleValue(mTuple, doDate(str,75)); // shipdate
addTupleValue(mTuple, doDate(str,83)); // commitdate
addTupleValue(mTuple, doDate(str,91)); // receiptdate
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanR(str, 99, 124)); // shipinstruct
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanR(str,124, 134)); // shipmode
addTupleValue(mTuple, cleanR(str,134, 178)); // comment
break;
default:
String unr = "Error: unknown record type";
addTupleValue(mTuple, unr); // error message
break;
}
Tuple tt = mTupleFactory.newTupleNoCopy(mTuple);
return tt;
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
int errCode = 6018;
String errMsg = "Error while reading input";
throw new ExecException(errMsg, errCode,
PigException.REMOTE_ENVIRONMENT, e);
}
}
private String unpackBCD(byte[] buf, int start, int end) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
byte bcd, high, low;
for (int i = start; i < end-1; i++) {
bcd = buf[i];
high = (byte) (bcd & 0xf0);
high >>>= (byte) 4;
high = (byte) (high & 0x0f);
low = (byte) (bcd & 0x0f);
sb.append(high);
sb.append(low);
}
bcd = buf[end-1];
high = (byte) (bcd & 0xf0);
high >>>= (byte) 4;
high = (byte) (high & 0x0f);
low = (byte) (bcd & 0x0f);
sb.append(high);
// add decimal -- no check for length
sb.insert(sb.length()-2, '.');

// add sign
if ( low == 0x0d ) sb.insert(0, '-');
return (sb.toString()).replaceFirst("^(-?)0+(?!.)","$1");
}
private String doSingle(String str, int start) {
return str.substring(start, start+1);
}
private String cleanR(String str, int start, int end) {
return str.substring(start, end).replaceFirst("s+$", "");
}
private String cleanL(String str, int start, int end) {
return str.substring(start, end).replaceFirst("^0+(?!$)", "");
}
private String doDate(String str, int start) {
return str.substring(start,start+4) + '-' + str.substring(start+4,start+6) +
'-' + str.substring(start+6,start+8);
}
private void addTupleValue(ArrayList<Object> tuple, String buf) {
tuple.add(new DataByteArray(buf));
}
@Override
public InputFormat getInputFormat() {
return new FixedLengthInputFormat();
}
@Override
public void prepareToRead(RecordReader reader, PigSplit split) {
in = reader;
}
@Override
public void setLocation(String location, Job job)
throws IOException {
FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, location);
}
}

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