http://kudu.apache.org/docs/developing.html#_kudu_integration_with_spark

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:00 PM Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see that the API has changed a bit so my old code doesn’t work anymore.
> Can someone direct me to some code samples?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now that Kudu 1.0.0 is officially out and ready for production use, where
>> do we find the spark connector jar for this release?
>>
>>
> It's available in the official ASF maven repository:
> https://repository.apache.org/#nexus-search;quick~kudu-spark
>
> <dependency>
>   <groupId>org.apache.kudu</groupId>
>   <artifactId>kudu-spark_2.10</artifactId>
>   <version>1.0.0</version>
> </dependency>
>
>
> -Todd
>
>
>
>> On Jun 17, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Dan Burkert <d...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> To your first question about `CREATE TABLE` syntax with Kudu/Spark SQL, I
>> do not think we support that at this point.  I haven't looked deeply into
>> it, but we may hit issues specifying Kudu-specific options (partitioning,
>> column encoding, etc.).  Probably issues that can be worked through
>> eventually, though.  If you are interested in contributing to Kudu, this is
>> an area that could obviously use improvement!  Most or all of our Spark
>> features have been completely community driven to date.
>>
>>
>>> I am assuming that more Spark support along with semantic changes below
>>> will be incorporated into Kudu 0.9.1.
>>>
>>
>> As a rule we do not release new features in patch releases, but the good
>> news is that we are releasing regularly, and our next scheduled release is
>> for the August timeframe (see JD's roadmap
>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1a3b949e715a74d7f26bd9c102247441a06d16d077324ba39a662e2a@1455234076@%3Cdev.kudu.apache.org%3E>
>>  email
>> about what we are aiming to include).  Also, Cloudera does publish snapshot
>> versions of the Spark connector here
>> <https://repository.cloudera.com/cloudera/cloudera-repos/org/kududb/>,
>> so the jars are available if you don't mind using snapshots.
>>
>>
>>> Anyone know of a better way to make unique primary keys other than using
>>> UUID to make every row unique if there is no unique column (or combination
>>> thereof) to use.
>>>
>>
>> Not that I know of.  In general it's pretty rare to have a dataset
>> without a natural primary key (even if it's just all of the columns), but
>> in those cases UUID is a good solution.
>>
>>
>>> This is what I am using. I know auto incrementing is coming down the
>>> line (don’t know when), but is there a way to simulate this in Kudu using
>>> Spark out of curiosity?
>>>
>>
>> To my knowledge there is no plan to have auto increment in Kudu.
>> Distributed, consistent, auto incrementing counters is a difficult problem,
>> and I don't think there are any known solutions that would be fast enough
>> for Kudu (happy to be proven wrong, though!).
>>
>> - Dan
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> On Jun 14, 2016, at 6:08 PM, Dan Burkert <d...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure exactly what the semantics will be, but at least one of
>>> them will be upsert.  These modes come from spark, and they were really
>>> designed for file-backed storage and not table storage.  We may want to do
>>> append = upsert, and overwrite = truncate + insert.  I think that may match
>>> the normal spark semantics more closely.
>>>
>>> - Dan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dan,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the information. That would mean both “append” and
>>>> “overwrite” modes would be combined or not needed in the future.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 14, 2016, at 5:57 PM, Dan Burkert <d...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Right now append uses an update Kudu operation, which requires the row
>>>> already be present in the table. Overwrite maps to insert.  Kudu very
>>>> recently got upsert support baked in, but it hasn't yet been integrated
>>>> into the Spark connector.  So pretty soon these sharp edges will get a lot
>>>> better, since upsert is the way to go for most spark workloads.
>>>>
>>>> - Dan
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I tried to use the “append” mode, and it worked. Over 3.8 million rows
>>>>> in 64s. I would assume that now I can use the “overwrite” mode on existing
>>>>> data. Now, I have to find answers to these questions. What would happen if
>>>>> I “append” to the data in the Kudu table if the data already exists? What
>>>>> would happen if I “overwrite” existing data when the DataFrame has data in
>>>>> it that does not exist in the Kudu table? I need to evaluate the best way
>>>>> to simulate the UPSERT behavior in HBase because this is what our use case
>>>>> is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ben
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 14, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, I’m getting this error when trying to write to the table.
>>>>>
>>>>> import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
>>>>> val key_seq = Seq(“my_id")
>>>>> val key_list = List(“my_id”).asJava
>>>>> kuduContext.createTable(tableName, df.schema, key_seq, new
>>>>> CreateTableOptions().setNumReplicas(1).addHashPartitions(key_list, 100))
>>>>>
>>>>> df.write
>>>>>     .options(Map("kudu.master" -> kuduMaster,"kudu.table" ->
>>>>> tableName))
>>>>>     .mode("overwrite")
>>>>>     .kudu
>>>>>
>>>>> java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to write 1000 rows from DataFrame
>>>>> to Kudu; sample errors: Not found: key not found (error 0)Not found: key
>>>>> not found (error 0)Not found: key not found (error 0)Not found: key not
>>>>> found (error 0)Not found: key not found (error 0)
>>>>>
>>>>> Does the key field need to be first in the DataFrame?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ben
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 14, 2016, at 4:28 PM, Dan Burkert <d...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks! It got further. Now, how do I set the Primary Key to be a
>>>>>> column(s) in the DataFrame and set the partitioning? Is it like this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> kuduContext.createTable(tableName, df.schema, Seq(“my_id"), new
>>>>>> CreateTableOptions().setNumReplicas(1).addHashPartitions(“my_id"))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Table partitioning must be
>>>>>> specified using setRangePartitionColumns or addHashPartitions
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep.  The `Seq("my_id")` part of that call is specifying the set of
>>>>> primary key columns, so in this case you have specified the single PK
>>>>> column "my_id".  The `addHashPartitions` call adds hash partitioning to 
>>>>> the
>>>>> table, in this case over the column "my_id" (which is good, it must be 
>>>>> over
>>>>> one or more PK columns, so in this case "my_id" is the one and only valid
>>>>> combination).  However, the call to `addHashPartition` also takes the
>>>>> number of buckets as the second param.  You shouldn't get the
>>>>> IllegalArgumentException as long as you are specifying either
>>>>> `addHashPartitions` or `setRangePartitionColumns`.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Dan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 14, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Dan Burkert <d...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looks like we're missing an import statement in that example.  Could
>>>>>> you try:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> import org.kududb.client._
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and try again?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Dan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I encountered an error trying to create a table based on the
>>>>>>> documentation from a DataFrame.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <console>:49: error: not found: type CreateTableOptions
>>>>>>>               kuduContext.createTable(tableName, df.schema,
>>>>>>> Seq("key"), new CreateTableOptions().setNumReplicas(1))
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there something I’m missing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jun 14, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's only in Cloudera's maven repo:
>>>>>>> https://repository.cloudera.com/cloudera/cloudera-repos/org/kududb/kudu-spark_2.10/0.9.0/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi J-D,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I installed Kudu 0.9.0 using CM, but I can’t find the kudu-spark
>>>>>>>> jar for spark-shell to use. Can you show me where to find it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jun 8, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What's in this doc is what's gonna get released:
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/cloudera/kudu/blob/master/docs/developing.adoc#kudu-integration-with-spark
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Will this be documented with examples once 0.9.0 comes out?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On May 28, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It will be in 0.9.0.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Will all this effort be rolled into 0.9.0 and be ready for use?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On May 18, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Chris George <
>>>>>>>>>> christopher.geo...@rms.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> There is some code in review that needs some more refinement.
>>>>>>>>>> It will allow upsert/insert from a dataframe using the datasource
>>>>>>>>>> api. It will also allow the creation and deletion of tables from a 
>>>>>>>>>> dataframe
>>>>>>>>>> http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/2992/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Example usages will look something like:
>>>>>>>>>> http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/2992/5/docs/developing.adoc
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -Chris George
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 5/18/16, 9:45 AM, "Benjamin Kim" <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Can someone tell me what the state is of this Spark work?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Also, does anyone have any sample code on how to update/insert
>>>>>>>>>> data in Kudu using DataFrames?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Chris George <
>>>>>>>>>> christopher.geo...@rms.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> SparkSQL cannot support these type of statements but we may be
>>>>>>>>>> able to implement similar functionality through the api.
>>>>>>>>>> -Chris
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/12/16, 5:19 PM, "Benjamin Kim" <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It would be nice to adhere to the SQL:2003 standard for an
>>>>>>>>>> “upsert” if it were to be implemented.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> MERGE INTO table_name USING table_reference ON (condition)
>>>>>>>>>>  WHEN MATCHED THEN
>>>>>>>>>>  UPDATE SET column1 = value1 [, column2 = value2 ...]
>>>>>>>>>>  WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
>>>>>>>>>>  INSERT (column1 [, column2 ...]) VALUES (value1 [, value2 …])
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Chris George <
>>>>>>>>>> christopher.geo...@rms.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have a wip kuduRDD that I made a few months ago. I pushed it
>>>>>>>>>> into gerrit if you want to take a look.
>>>>>>>>>> http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/2754/
>>>>>>>>>> It does pushdown predicates which the existing input formatter
>>>>>>>>>> based rdd does not.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Within the next two weeks I’m planning to implement a datasource
>>>>>>>>>> for spark that will have pushdown predicates and insertion/update
>>>>>>>>>> functionality (need to look more at cassandra and the hbase 
>>>>>>>>>> datasource for
>>>>>>>>>> best way to do this) I agree that server side upsert would be 
>>>>>>>>>> helpful.
>>>>>>>>>> Having a datasource would give us useful data frames and also
>>>>>>>>>> make spark sql usable for kudu.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> My reasoning for having a spark datasource and not using Impala
>>>>>>>>>> is: 1. We have had trouble getting impala to run fast with high 
>>>>>>>>>> concurrency
>>>>>>>>>> when compared to spark 2. We interact with datasources which do not
>>>>>>>>>> integrate with impala. 3. We have custom sql query planners for 
>>>>>>>>>> extended
>>>>>>>>>> sql functionality.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -Chris George
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/11/16, 12:22 PM, "Jean-Daniel Cryans" <jdcry...@apache.org>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You guys make a convincing point, although on the upsert side
>>>>>>>>>> we'll need more support from the servers. Right now all you can do 
>>>>>>>>>> is an
>>>>>>>>>> INSERT then, if you get a dup key, do an UPDATE. I guess we could at 
>>>>>>>>>> least
>>>>>>>>>> add an API on the client side that would manage it, but it wouldn't 
>>>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>>>> atomic.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Mark Hamstra <
>>>>>>>>>> m...@clearstorydata.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It's pretty simple, actually.  I need to support versioned
>>>>>>>>>>> datasets in a Spark SQL environment.  Instead of a hack on top of a 
>>>>>>>>>>> Parquet
>>>>>>>>>>> data store, I'm hoping (among other reasons) to be able to use 
>>>>>>>>>>> Kudu's write
>>>>>>>>>>> and timestamp-based read operations to support not only appending 
>>>>>>>>>>> data, but
>>>>>>>>>>> also updating existing data, and even some schema migration.  The 
>>>>>>>>>>> most
>>>>>>>>>>> typical use case is a dataset that is updated periodically (e.g., 
>>>>>>>>>>> weekly or
>>>>>>>>>>> monthly) in which the the preliminary data in the previous window 
>>>>>>>>>>> (week or
>>>>>>>>>>> month) is updated with values that are expected to remain unchanged 
>>>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>>> then on, and a new set of preliminary values for the current window 
>>>>>>>>>>> need to
>>>>>>>>>>> be added/appended.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Using Kudu's Java API and developing additional functionality on
>>>>>>>>>>> top of what Kudu has to offer isn't too much to ask, but the ease of
>>>>>>>>>>> integration with Spark SQL will gate how quickly we would move to 
>>>>>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>>>>>> Kudu and how seriously we'd look at alternatives before making that
>>>>>>>>>>> decision.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Mark,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for taking some time to reply in this thread, glad it
>>>>>>>>>>>> caught the attention of other folks!
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Mark Hamstra<
>>>>>>>>>>>> m...@clearstorydata.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do they care being able to insert into Kudu with SparkSQL
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I care about insert into Kudu with Spark SQL.  I'm currently
>>>>>>>>>>>>> delaying a refactoring of some Spark SQL-oriented insert 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> functionality
>>>>>>>>>>>>> while trying to evaluate what to expect from Kudu.  Whether Kudu 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> does a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> good job supporting inserts with Spark SQL will be a key 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> consideration as
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to whether we adopt Kudu.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'd like to know more about why SparkSQL inserts in necessary
>>>>>>>>>>>> for you. Is it just that you currently do it that way into some 
>>>>>>>>>>>> database or
>>>>>>>>>>>> parquet so with minimal refactoring you'd be able to use Kudu? 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Would
>>>>>>>>>>>> re-writing those SQL lines into Scala and directly use the Java 
>>>>>>>>>>>> API's
>>>>>>>>>>>> KuduSession be too much work?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Additionally, what do you expect to gain from using Kudu VS
>>>>>>>>>>>> your current solution? If it's not completely clear, I'd love to 
>>>>>>>>>>>> help you
>>>>>>>>>>>> think through it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yup, starting to get a good idea.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What are your DS folks looking for in terms of functionality
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> related to Spark? A SparkSQL integration that's as fully 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> featured as
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Impala's? Do they care being able to insert into Kudu with 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SparkSQL or just
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> being able to query real fast? Anything more specific to Spark 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that I'm
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> missing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FWIW the plan is to get to 1.0 in late Summer/early Fall. At
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cloudera all our resources are committed to making things happen 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in time,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and a more fully featured Spark integration isn't in our plans 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> during that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> period. I'm really hoping someone in the community will help 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with Spark,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the same way we got a big contribution for the Flume sink.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Benjamin Kim <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bbuil...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, we took Kudu for a test run using 0.6 and 0.7 versions.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But, since it’s not “production-ready”, upper management 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn’t want to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fully deploy it yet. They just want to keep an eye on it 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> though. Kudu was
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so much simpler and easier to use in every aspect compared to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HBase. Impala
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was great for the report writers and analysts to experiment 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with for the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> short time it was up. But, once again, the only blocker was the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lack of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Spark support for our Data Developers/Scientists. So, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> production-level data
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> population won’t happen until then.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I hope this helps you get an idea where I am coming from…
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 10, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Benjamin Kim <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J-D,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The main thing I hear that Cassandra is being used as an
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> updatable hot data store to ensure that duplicates are taken 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> care of and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> idempotency is maintained. Whether data was directly retrieved 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cassandra for analytics, reports, or searches, it was not 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> clear as to what
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was its main use. Some also just used it for a staging area to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> populate
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> downstream tables in parquet format. The last thing I heard 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was that CQL
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was terrible, so that rules out much use of direct queries 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> against it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm no C* expert, but I don't think CQL is meant for real
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytics, just ease of use instead of plainly using the APIs. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Even then,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kudu should beat it easily on big scans. Same for HBase. We've 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> done
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> benchmarks against the latter, not the former.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As for our company, we have been looking for an updatable
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> data store for a long time that can be quickly queried 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> directly either
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> using Spark SQL or Impala or some other SQL engine and still 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> handle TB or
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PB of data without performance degradation and many 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> configuration
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> headaches. For now, we are using HBase to take on this role 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with Phoenix as
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a fast way to directly query the data. I can see Kudu as the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> best way to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fill this gap easily, especially being the closest thing to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> relational databases out there in familiarity for the many SQL 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytics
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people in our company. The other alternative would be to go 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with AWS
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Redshift for the same reasons, but it would come at a cost, of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> course. If
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> we went with either solutions, Kudu or Redshift, it would get 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rid of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> need to extract from HBase to parquet tables or export to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PostgreSQL to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> support more of the SQL language using by analysts or the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reporting
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> software we use..
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ok, the usual then *smile*. Looks like we're not too far off
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with Kudu. Have you folks tried Kudu with Impala yet with those 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> use cases?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It does, thanks for nice reply.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 9, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ha first time I'm hearing about SMACK. Inside Cloudera we
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like to refer to "Impala + Kudu" as Kimpala, but yeah it's not 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as sexy. My
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> colleagues who were also there did say that the hype around 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Spark isn't
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dying down.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There's definitely an overlap in the use cases that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cassandra, HBase, and Kudu cater to. I wouldn't go as far as 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> saying that C*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is just an interim solution for the use case you describe.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nothing significant happened in Kudu over the past month,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it's a storage engine so things move slowly *smile*. I'd love 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to see more
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> contributions on the Spark front. I know there's code out 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there that could
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be integrated in kudu-spark, it just needs to land in gerrit. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm sure
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> folks will happily review it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you have relevant experiences you can share? I'd love to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> learn more about the use cases for which you envision using 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kudu as a C*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> replacement.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Benjamin Kim <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi J-D,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> My colleagues recently came back from Strata in San Jose.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> They told me that everything was about Spark and there is a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> big buzz about
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the SMACK stack (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka). I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> still think that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cassandra is just an interim solution as a low-latency, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> easily queried data
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> store. I was wondering if anything significant happened in 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> regards to Kudu,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> especially on the Spark front. Plus, can you come up with 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your own proposed
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stack acronym to promote?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 1, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AFAIK no one in the dev community committed to any
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> timeline. I know of one person on the Kudu Slack who's 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> working on a better
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RDD, but that's about it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Benjamin Kim <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> b...@amobee.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi J-D,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quick question… Is there an ETA for KUDU-1214? I want to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> target a version of Kudu to begin real testing of Spark 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> against it for our
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> devs. At least, I can tell them what timeframe to anticipate.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Just curious,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *Benjamin Kim*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *Data Solutions Architect*
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 3:51 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The DStream stuff isn't there at all. I'm not sure if
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it's needed either.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The kuduRDD is just leveraging the MR input format,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ideally we'd use scans directly.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The SparkSQL stuff is there but it doesn't do any sort of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pushdown. It's really basic.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The goal was to provide something for others to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> contribute to. We have some basic unit tests that others can 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> easily extend.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> None of us on the team are Spark experts, but we'd be really 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> happy to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> assist one improve the kudu-spark code.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Benjamin Kim <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J-D,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It looks like it fulfills most of the basic requirements
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (kudu RDD, kudu DStream) in KUDU-1214. Am I right? Besides 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shoring up more
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Spark SQL functionality (Dataframes) and doing the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> documentation, what more
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needs to be done? Optimizations?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I believe that it’s a good place to start using Spark
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with Kudu and compare it to HBase with Spark (not clean).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jdcry...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AFAIK no one is working on it, but we did manage to get
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this in for 0.7.0:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/KUDU-1321
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's a really simple wrapper, and yes you can use
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SparkSQL on Kudu, but it will require a lot more work to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fast/useful.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J-D
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Benjamin Kim <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I see this KUDU-1214
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/KUDU-1214> targeted
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for 0.8.0, but I see no progress on it. When this is 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> complete, will this
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mean that Spark will be able to work with Kudu both 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programmatically and as
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a client via Spark SQL? Or is there more work that needs 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be done on the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Spark side for it to work?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Just curious.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> Todd Lipcon
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