On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Todd,
>
> FYI. The key  is unique for every row so rows are not going to already
> exist. Basically, everything is an INSERT.
>
> val generateUUID = udf(() => UUID.randomUUID().toString)
>
> As you can see, we are using UUID java library to create the key.
>

OK. You will have better insert performance if instead your key is
something that is increasing with time (eg System.currentTimeMillis() +
UUID).

-Todd


> On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Todd,
>>
>> I started Spark streaming more events into Kudu. Performance is great
>> there too! With HBase, it’s fast too, but I noticed that it pauses here and
>> there, making it take seconds for > 40k rows at a time, while Kudu doesn’t.
>> The progress bar just blinks by. I will keep this running until it hits 1B
>> rows and rerun my performance tests. This, hopefully, will give better
>> numbers.
>>
>
> Cool! We have invested a lot of work in making Kudu have consistent
> performance, like you mentioned. It's generally been my experience that
> most mature ops people would prefer a system which consistently performs
> well rather than one which has higher peak performance but occasionally
> stalls.
>
> BTW, what is your row key design? One exception to the above is that, if
> you're doing random inserts, you may see performance "fall off a cliff"
> once the size of your key columns becomes larger than the aggregate memory
> size of your cluster, if you're running on hard disks. Our inserts require
> checks for duplicate keys, and that can cause random disk IOs if your keys
> don't fit comfortably in cache. This is one area that HBase is
> fundamentally going to be faster based on its design.
>
> -Todd
>
>
>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>
>> Cool, thanks for the report, Ben. For what it's worth, I think there's
>> still some low hanging fruit in the Spark connector for Kudu (for example,
>> I believe locality on reads is currently broken). So, you can expect
>> performance to continue to improve in future versions. I'd also be
>> interested to see results on Kudu for a much larger dataset - my guess is a
>> lot of the 6 seconds you're seeing is constant overhead from Spark job
>> setup, etc, given that the performance doesn't seem to get slower as you
>> went from 700K rows to 13M rows.
>>
>> -Todd
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> FYI.
>>>
>>> I did a quick-n-dirty performance test.
>>>
>>> First, the setup:
>>> QA cluster:
>>>
>>>    - 15 data nodes
>>>       - 64GB memory each
>>>       - HBase is using 4GB of memory
>>>       - Kudu is using 1GB of memory
>>>    - 1 HBase/Kudu master node
>>>       - 64GB memory
>>>       - HBase/Kudu master is using 1GB of memory each
>>>    - 10Gb Ethernet
>>>
>>>
>>> Using Spark on both to load/read events data (84 columns per row), I was
>>> able to record performance for each. On the HBase side, I used the Phoenix
>>> 4.7 Spark plugin where DataFrames can be used directly. On the Kudu side, I
>>> used the Spark connector. I created an events table in Phoenix using the
>>> CREATE TABLE statement and created the equivalent in Kudu using the Spark
>>> method based off of a DataFrame schema.
>>>
>>> Here are the numbers for Phoenix/HBase.
>>> 1st run:
>>> > 715k rows
>>> - write: 2.7m
>>>
>>> > 715k rows in HBase table
>>> - read: 0.1s
>>> - count: 3.8s
>>> - aggregate: 61s
>>>
>>> 2nd run:
>>> > 5.2M rows
>>> - write: 11m
>>> * had 4 region servers go down, had to retry the 5.2M row write
>>>
>>> > 5.9M rows in HBase table
>>> - read: 8s
>>> - count: 3m
>>> - aggregate: 46s
>>>
>>> 3rd run:
>>> > 6.8M rows
>>> - write: 9.6m
>>>
>>> > 12.7M rows
>>> - read: 10s
>>> - count: 3m
>>> - aggregate: 44s
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are the numbers for Kudu.
>>> 1st run:
>>> > 715k rows
>>> - write: 18s
>>>
>>> > 715k rows in Kudu table
>>> - read: 0.2s
>>> - count: 18s
>>> - aggregate: 5s
>>>
>>> 2nd run:
>>> > 5.2M rows
>>> - write: 33s
>>>
>>> > 5.9M rows in Kudu table
>>> - read: 0.2s
>>> - count: 16s
>>> - aggregate: 6s
>>>
>>> 3rd run:
>>> > 6.8M rows
>>> - write: 27s
>>>
>>> > 12.7M rows in Kudu table
>>> - read: 0.2s
>>> - count: 16s
>>> - aggregate: 6s
>>>
>>> The Kudu results are impressive if you take these number as-is. Kudu is
>>> close to 18x faster at writing (UPSERT). Kudu is 30x faster at reading
>>> (HBase times increase as data size grows).  Kudu is 7x faster at full row
>>> counts. Lastly, Kudu is 3x faster doing an aggregate query (count distinct
>>> event_id’s per user_id). *Remember that this is small cluster, times are
>>> still respectable for both systems, HBase could have been configured
>>> better, and the HBase table could have been better tuned.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 15, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Dan Burkert <d...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Adding partition splits when range partitioning is done via the
>>> CreateTableOptions.addSplitRow
>>> <http://getkudu.io/apidocs/org/kududb/client/CreateTableOptions.html#addSplitRow-org.kududb.client.PartialRow->
>>>  method.
>>> You can find more about the different partitioning options in the schema
>>> design guide
>>> <http://getkudu.io/docs/schema_design.html#data-distribution>.  We
>>> generally recommend sticking to hash partitioning if possible, since you
>>> don't have to determine your own split rows.
>>>
>>> - Dan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Todd,
>>>>
>>>> I think the locality is not within our setup. We have the compute
>>>> cluster with Spark, YARN, etc. on its own, and we have the storage cluster
>>>> with HBase, Kudu, etc. on another. We beefed up the hardware specs on the
>>>> compute cluster and beefed up storage capacity on the storage cluster. We
>>>> got this setup idea from the Databricks folks. I do have a question. I
>>>> created the table to use range partition on columns. I see that if I use
>>>> hash partition I can set the number of splits, but how do I do that using
>>>> range (50 nodes * 10 = 500 splits)?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 15, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Awesome use case. One thing to keep in mind is that spark parallelism
>>>> will be limited by the number of tablets. So, you might want to split into
>>>> 10 or so buckets per node to get the best query throughput.
>>>>
>>>> Usually if you run top on some machines while running the query you can
>>>> see if it is fully utilizing the cores.
>>>>
>>>> Another known issue right now is that spark locality isn't working
>>>> properly on replicated tables so you will use a lot of network traffic. For
>>>> a perf test you might want to try a table with replication count 1
>>>> On Jun 15, 2016 5:26 PM, "Benjamin Kim" <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Todd,
>>>>
>>>> I did a simple test of our ad events. We stream using Spark Streaming
>>>> directly into HBase, and the Data Analysts/Scientists do some
>>>> insight/discovery work plus some reports generation. For the reports, we
>>>> use SQL, and the more deeper stuff, we use Spark. In Spark, our main data
>>>> currency store of choice is DataFrames.
>>>>
>>>> The schema is around 83 columns wide where most are of the string data
>>>> type.
>>>>
>>>> "event_type", "timestamp", "event_valid", "event_subtype", "user_ip",
>>>> "user_id", "mappable_id",
>>>> "cookie_status", "profile_status", "user_status", "previous_timestamp",
>>>> "user_agent", "referer",
>>>> "host_domain", "uri", "request_elapsed", "browser_languages",
>>>> "acamp_id", "creative_id",
>>>> "location_id", “pcamp_id",
>>>> "pdomain_id", "continent_code", "country", "region", "dma", "city",
>>>> "zip", "isp", "line_speed",
>>>> "gender", "year_of_birth", "behaviors_read", "behaviors_written",
>>>> "key_value_pairs", "acamp_candidates",
>>>> "tag_format", "optimizer_name", "optimizer_version", "optimizer_ip",
>>>> "pixel_id", “video_id",
>>>> "video_network_id", "video_time_watched", "video_percentage_watched",
>>>> "video_media_type",
>>>> "video_player_iframed", "video_player_in_view", "video_player_width",
>>>> "video_player_height",
>>>> "conversion_valid_sale", "conversion_sale_amount",
>>>> "conversion_commission_amount", "conversion_step",
>>>> "conversion_currency", "conversion_attribution", "conversion_offer_id",
>>>> "custom_info", "frequency",
>>>> "recency_seconds", "cost", "revenue", “optimizer_acamp_id",
>>>> "optimizer_creative_id", "optimizer_ecpm", "impression_id",
>>>> "diagnostic_data",
>>>> "user_profile_mapping_source", "latitude", "longitude", "area_code",
>>>> "gmt_offset", "in_dst",
>>>> "proxy_type", "mobile_carrier", "pop", "hostname", "profile_expires",
>>>> "timestamp_iso", "reference_id",
>>>> "identity_organization", "identity_method"
>>>>
>>>> Most queries are like counts of how many users use what browser, how
>>>> many are unique users, etc. The part that scares most users is when it
>>>> comes to joining this data with other dimension/3rd party events tables
>>>> because of shear size of it.
>>>>
>>>> We do what most companies do, similar to what I saw in earlier
>>>> presentations of Kudu. We dump data out of HBase into partitioned Parquet
>>>> tables to make query performance manageable.
>>>>
>>>> I will coordinate with a data scientist today to do some tests. He is
>>>> working on identity matching/record linking of users from 2 domains: US and
>>>> Singapore, using probabilistic deduping algorithms. I will load the data
>>>> from ad events from both countries, and let him run his process against
>>>> this data in Kudu. I hope this will “wow” the team.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 15, 2016, at 12:47 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Benjamin,
>>>>
>>>> What workload are you using for benchmarks? Using spark or something
>>>> more custom? rdd or data frame or SQL, etc? Maybe you can share the schema
>>>> and some queries
>>>>
>>>> Todd
>>>>
>>>> Todd
>>>> On Jun 15, 2016 8:10 AM, "Benjamin Kim" <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Todd,
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that Kudu 0.9.0 is out. I have done some tests. Already, I am
>>>>> impressed. Compared to HBase, read and write performance are better. Write
>>>>> performance has the greatest improvement (> 4x), while read is > 1.5x.
>>>>> Albeit, these are only preliminary tests. Do you know of a way to really 
>>>>> do
>>>>> some conclusive tests? I want to see if I can match your results on my 50
>>>>> node cluster.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ben
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 30, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Todd,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It sounds like Kudu can possibly top or match those numbers put out
>>>>>> by Aerospike. Do you have any performance statistics published or any
>>>>>> instructions as to measure them myself as good way to test? In addition,
>>>>>> this will be a test using Spark, so should I wait for Kudu version 0.9.0
>>>>>> where support will be built in?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We don't have a lot of benchmarks published yet, especially on the
>>>>> write side. I've found that thorough cross-system benchmarks are very
>>>>> difficult to do fairly and accurately, and often times users end up
>>>>> misguided if they pay too much attention to them :) So, given a finite
>>>>> number of developers working on Kudu, I think we've tended to spend more
>>>>> time on the project itself and less time focusing on "competition". I'm
>>>>> sure there are use cases where Kudu will beat out Aerospike, and probably
>>>>> use cases where Aerospike will beat Kudu as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> From my perspective, it would be great if you can share some details
>>>>> of your workload, especially if there are some areas you're finding Kudu
>>>>> lacking. Maybe we can spot some easy code changes we could make to improve
>>>>> performance, or suggest a tuning variable you could change.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Todd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 27, 2016, at 9:19 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First of all, thanks for the link. It looks like an interesting
>>>>>>> read. I checked that Aerospike is currently at version 3.8.2.3, and in 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> article, they are evaluating version 3.5.4. The main thing that 
>>>>>>> impressed
>>>>>>> me was their claim that they can beat Cassandra and HBase by 8x for 
>>>>>>> writing
>>>>>>> and 25x for reading. Their big claim to fame is that Aerospike can 
>>>>>>> write 1M
>>>>>>> records per second with only 50 nodes. I wanted to see if this is real.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1M records per second on 50 nodes is pretty doable by Kudu as well,
>>>>>> depending on the size of your records and the insertion order. I've been
>>>>>> playing with a ~70 node cluster recently and seen 1M+ writes/second
>>>>>> sustained, and bursting above 4M. These are 1KB rows with 11 columns, and
>>>>>> with pretty old HDD-only nodes. I think newer flash-based nodes could do
>>>>>> better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To answer your questions, we have a DMP with user profiles with many
>>>>>>> attributes. We create segmentation information off of these attributes 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> classify them. Then, we can target advertising appropriately for our 
>>>>>>> sales
>>>>>>> department. Much of the data processing is for applying models on all 
>>>>>>> or if
>>>>>>> not most of every profile’s attributes to find similarities (nearest
>>>>>>> neighbor/clustering) over a large number of rows when batch processing 
>>>>>>> or a
>>>>>>> small subset of rows for quick online scoring. So, our use case is a
>>>>>>> typical advanced analytics scenario. We have tried HBase, but it doesn’t
>>>>>>> work well for these types of analytics.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I read, that Aerospike in the release notes, they did do many
>>>>>>> improvements for batch and scan operations.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder what your thoughts are for using Kudu for this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds like a good Kudu use case to me. I've heard great things about
>>>>>> Aerospike for the low latency random access portion, but I've also heard
>>>>>> that it's _very_ expensive, and not particularly suited to the columnar
>>>>>> scan workload. Lastly, I think the Apache license of Kudu is much more
>>>>>> appealing than the AGPL3 used by Aerospike. But, that's not really a 
>>>>>> direct
>>>>>> answer to the performance question :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On May 27, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Mike Percy <mpe...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you considered whether you have a scan heavy or a random access
>>>>>>> heavy workload? Have you considered whether you always access / update a
>>>>>>> whole row vs only a partial row? Kudu is a column store so has some
>>>>>>> awesome performance characteristics when you are doing a lot of 
>>>>>>> scanning of
>>>>>>> just a couple of columns.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't know the answer to your question but if your concern is
>>>>>>> performance then I would be interested in seeing comparisons from a perf
>>>>>>> perspective on certain workloads.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Finally, a year ago Aerospike did quite poorly in a Jepsen test:
>>>>>>> https://aphyr.com/posts/324-jepsen-aerospike
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder if they have addressed any of those issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, May 27, 2016, Benjamin Kim <bbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am just curious. How will Kudu compare with Aerospike (
>>>>>>>> http://www.aerospike.com)? I went to a Spark Roadshow and found
>>>>>>>> out about this piece of software. It appears to fit our use case 
>>>>>>>> perfectly
>>>>>>>> since we are an ad-tech company trying to leverage our user profiles 
>>>>>>>> data.
>>>>>>>> Plus, it already has a Spark connector and has a SQL-like client. The
>>>>>>>> tables can be accessed using Spark SQL DataFrames and, also, made into 
>>>>>>>> SQL
>>>>>>>> tables for direct use with Spark SQL ODBC/JDBC Thriftserver. I see 
>>>>>>>> from the
>>>>>>>> work done here http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/2992/ that the
>>>>>>>> Spark integration is well underway and, from the looks of it lately, 
>>>>>>>> almost
>>>>>>>> complete. I would prefer to use Kudu since we are already a Cloudera 
>>>>>>>> shop,
>>>>>>>> and Kudu is easy to deploy and configure using Cloudera Manager. I also
>>>>>>>> hope that some of Aerospike’s speed optimization techniques can make it
>>>>>>>> into Kudu in the future, if they have not been already thought of or
>>>>>>>> included.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just some thoughts…
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Mike Percy
>>>>>>> Software Engineer, Cloudera
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Todd Lipcon
>>>>>> Software Engineer, Cloudera
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Todd Lipcon
>>>>> Software Engineer, Cloudera
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Todd Lipcon
>> Software Engineer, Cloudera
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> Todd Lipcon
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