LOL… I hate YARN, but unfortunately I don’t get to make the call on which tools we’re going to use, I just get paid to make stuff work on the tools provided. ;-)
Testing is somewhat problematic. You have to really test at some large enough fraction of scale. Fortunately for this issue (YARN client/cluster) is just in how you launch a job so its really just benchmarking the time difference. But this gets to the question… what are the real differences between client and cluster modes? What are the pros/cons and use cases where one has advantages over the other? I couldn’t find anything on the web, so I’m here asking these ‘silly’ questions… ;-) The issue of Mesos over YARN is that you now have to look at Myriad to help glue stuff together, or so I’m told. And you now may have to add an additional vendor support contract unless your Hadoop vendor is willing to support Mesos. But of course, YMMV and maybe someone else can add something of value than my $0.02 worth. ;-) -Mike > On Jun 22, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This is exactly the sort of topics that distinguish lab work from enterprise > practice :) > > The question on YARN client versus YARN cluster mode. I am not sure how much > in real life it is going to make an impact if I choose one over the other? > > These days I yell developers that it is perfectly valid to use Spark local > mode to their dev/unit testing. at least they know how to look after it with > the help of Spark WEB GUI. > > Also anyone has tried using Mesos instead of Spark?. What does it offer above > YARN. > > Cheers > > Dr Mich Talebzadeh > > LinkedIn > https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw > > <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw> > > http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> > > > On 22 June 2016 at 19:04, Michael Segel <msegel_had...@hotmail.com > <mailto:msegel_had...@hotmail.com>> wrote: > JDBC reliability problem? > > Ok… a bit more explanation… > > Usually when you have to go back to a legacy system, its because the data set > is usually metadata and is relatively small. Its not the sort of data that > gets ingested in to a data lake unless you’re also ingesting the metadata and > are using HBase/MapRDB , Cassandra or something like that. > > On top of all of this… when dealing with PII, you have to consider data at > rest. This is also why you will see some things that make parts of the design > a bit counter intuitive and why you start to think of storage/compute models > over traditional cluster design. > > A single threaded JDBC connection to build a local RDD should be fine and I > would really be concerned if that was unreliable. That would mean tools like > Spark or Drill would have serious reliability issues when considering legacy > system access. > > And of course I’m still trying to dig in to YARN’s client vs cluster option. > > > thx > >> On Jun 22, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com >> <mailto:mich.talebza...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Thanks Mike for clarification. >> >> I think there is another option to get data out of RDBMS through some form >> of SELECT ALL COLUMNS TAB SEPARATED OR OTHER and put them in a flat file or >> files. scp that file from the RDBMS directory to a private directory on HDFS >> system and push it into HDFS. That will by-pass the JDBC reliability >> problem and I guess in this case one is in more control. >> >> I do concur that there are security issues with this. For example that local >> file system may have to have encryption etc that will make it tedious. I >> believe Jorn mentioned this somewhere. >> >> HTH >> >> Dr Mich Talebzadeh >> >> LinkedIn >> https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw >> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw> >> >> http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> >> >> >> On 22 June 2016 at 15:59, Michael Segel <msegel_had...@hotmail.com >> <mailto:msegel_had...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just to clear a few things up… >> >> First I know its hard to describe some problems because they deal with >> client confidential information. >> (Also some basic ‘dead hooker’ thought problems to work through before >> facing them at a client.) >> The questions I pose here are very general and deal with some basic design >> issues/consideration. >> >> >> W.R.T JDBC / Beeline: >> There are many use cases where you don’t want to migrate some or all data to >> HDFS. This is why tools like Apache Drill exist. At the same time… there >> are different cluster design patterns. One such pattern is a >> storage/compute model where you have multiple clusters acting either as >> compute clusters which pull data from storage clusters. An example would be >> spinning up an EMR cluster and running a M/R job where you read from S3 and >> output to S3. Or within your enterprise you have your Data Lake (Data >> Sewer) and then a compute cluster for analytics. >> >> In addition, you have some very nasty design issues to deal with like >> security. Yes, that’s the very dirty word nobody wants to deal with and in >> most of these tools, security is an afterthought. >> So you may not have direct access to the cluster or an edge node. You only >> have access to a single port on a single machine through the firewall, which >> is running beeline so you can pull data from your storage cluster. >> >> Its very possible that you have to pull data from the cluster thru beeline >> to store the data within a spark job running on the cluster. (Oh the irony! >> ;-) >> >> Its important to understand that due to design constraints, options like >> sqoop or running a query directly against Hive may not be possible and these >> use cases do exist when dealing with PII information. >> >> Its also important to realize that you may have to pull data from multiple >> data sources for some not so obvious but important reasons… >> So your spark app has to be able to generate an RDD from data in an RDBS >> (Oracle, DB2, etc …) persist it for local lookups and then pull data from >> the cluster and then output it either back to the cluster, another cluster, >> or someplace else. All of these design issues occur when you’re dealing >> with large enterprises. >> >> >> But I digress… >> >> The reason I started this thread was to get a better handle on where things >> run when we make decisions to run either in client or cluster mode in YARN. >> Issues like starting/stopping long running apps are an issue in production. >> Tying up cluster resources while your application remains dormant waiting >> for the next batch of events to come through. >> Trying to understand the gotchas of each design consideration so that we can >> weigh the pros and cons of a decision when designing a solution…. >> >> >> Spark is relatively new and its a bit disruptive because it forces you to >> think in terms of storage/compute models or Jim Scott’s holistic ‘Zeta >> Architecture’. In addition, it forces you to rethink your cluster hardware >> design too. >> >> HTH to clarify the questions and of course thanks for the replies. >> >> -Mike >> >>> On Jun 21, 2016, at 11:17 PM, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:mich.talebza...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> If you are going to get data out of an RDBMS like Oracle then the correct >>> procedure is: >>> >>> Use Hive on Spark execution engine. That improves Hive performance >>> You can use JDBC through Spark itself. No issue there. It will use JDBC >>> provided by HiveContext >>> JDBC is fine. Every vendor has a utility to migrate a full database from >>> one to another using JDBC. For example SAP relies on JDBC to migrate a >>> whole Oracle schema to SAP ASE >>> I have imported an Oracle table of 1 billion rows through Spark into Hive >>> ORC table. It works fine. Actually I use Spark to do the job for these type >>> of imports. Register a tempTable from DF and use it to put data into Hive >>> table. You can create Hive table explicitly in Spark and do an >>> INSERT/SELECT into it rather than save etc. >>> You can access Hive tables through HiveContext. Beeline is a client tool >>> that connects to Hive thrift server. I don't think it comes into equation >>> here >>> Finally one experiment worth multiples of these speculation. Try for >>> yourself and fine out. >>> If you want to use JDBC for an RDBMS table then you will need to download >>> the relevant JAR file. For example for Oracle it is ojdbc6.jar etc >>> Like anything else your mileage varies and need to experiment with it. >>> Otherwise these are all opinions. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> >>> >>> Dr Mich Talebzadeh >>> >>> LinkedIn >>> https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw >>> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw> >>> >>> http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> >>> >>> >>> On 22 June 2016 at 06:46, Jörn Franke <jornfra...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:jornfra...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> I would import data via sqoop and put it on HDFS. It has some mechanisms to >>> handle the lack of reliability by jdbc. >>> >>> Then you can process the data via Spark. You could also use jdbc rdd but I >>> do not recommend to use it, because you do not want to pull data all the >>> time out of the database when you execute your application. Furthermore, >>> you have to handle connection interruptions, the multiple >>> serialization/deserialization efforts, if one executor crashes you have to >>> repull some or all of the data from the database etc >>> >>> Within the cluster it does not make sense to me to pull data via jdbc from >>> hive. All the benefits such as data locality, reliability etc would be gone. >>> >>> Hive supports different execution engines (TEZ, Spark), formats (Orc, >>> parquet) and further optimizations to make the analysis fast. It always >>> depends on your use case. >>> >>> On 22 Jun 2016, at 05:47, Michael Segel <msegel_had...@hotmail.com >>> <mailto:msegel_had...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Sorry, I think you misunderstood. >>>> Spark can read from JDBC sources so to say using beeline as a way to >>>> access data is not a spark application isn’t really true. Would you say >>>> the same if you were pulling data in to spark from Oracle or DB2? >>>> There are a couple of different design patterns and use cases where data >>>> could be stored in Hive yet your only access method is via a JDBC or >>>> Thift/Rest service. Think also of compute / storage cluster >>>> implementations. >>>> >>>> WRT to #2, not exactly what I meant, by exposing the data… and there are >>>> limitations to the thift service… >>>> >>>>> On Jun 21, 2016, at 5:44 PM, ayan guha <guha.a...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:guha.a...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Yes, in the sense you control number of executors from spark >>>>> application config. >>>>> 2. Any IO will be done from executors (never ever on driver, unless you >>>>> explicitly call collect()). For example, connection to a DB happens one >>>>> for each worker (and used by local executors). Also, if you run a >>>>> reduceByKey job and write to hdfs, you will find a bunch of files were >>>>> written from various executors. What happens when you want to expose the >>>>> data to world: Spark Thrift Server (STS), which is a long running spark >>>>> application (ie spark context) which can serve data from RDDs. >>>>> >>>>> Suppose I have a data source… like a couple of hive tables and I access >>>>> the tables via beeline. (JDBC) - >>>>> This is NOT a spark application, and there is no RDD created. Beeline is >>>>> just a jdbc client tool. You use beeline to connect to HS2 or STS. >>>>> >>>>> In this case… Hive generates a map/reduce job and then would stream the >>>>> result set back to the client node where the RDD result set would be >>>>> built. -- >>>>> This is never true. When you connect Hive from spark, spark actually >>>>> reads hive metastore and streams data directly from HDFS. Hive MR jobs do >>>>> not play any role here, making spark faster than hive. >>>>> >>>>> HTH.... >>>>> >>>>> Ayan >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Michael Segel <msegel_had...@hotmail.com >>>>> <mailto:msegel_had...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> Ok, its at the end of the day and I’m trying to make sure I understand >>>>> the locale of where things are running. >>>>> >>>>> I have an application where I have to query a bunch of sources, creating >>>>> some RDDs and then I need to join off the RDDs and some other lookup >>>>> tables. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yarn has two modes… client and cluster. >>>>> >>>>> I get it that in cluster mode… everything is running on the cluster. >>>>> But in client mode, the driver is running on the edge node while the >>>>> workers are running on the cluster. >>>>> >>>>> When I run a sparkSQL command that generates a new RDD, does the result >>>>> set live on the cluster with the workers, and gets referenced by the >>>>> driver, or does the result set get migrated to the driver running on the >>>>> client? (I’m pretty sure I know the answer, but its never safe to assume >>>>> anything…) >>>>> >>>>> The follow up questions: >>>>> >>>>> 1) If I kill the app running the driver on the edge node… will that >>>>> cause YARN to free up the cluster’s resources? (In cluster mode… that >>>>> doesn’t happen) What happens and how quickly? >>>>> >>>>> 1a) If using the client mode… can I spin up and spin down the number of >>>>> executors on the cluster? (Assuming that when I kill an executor any >>>>> portion of the RDDs associated with that executor are gone, however the >>>>> spark context is still alive on the edge node? [again assuming that the >>>>> spark context lives with the driver.]) >>>>> >>>>> 2) Any I/O between my spark job and the outside world… (e.g. walking >>>>> through the data set and writing out a data set to a file) will occur on >>>>> the edge node where the driver is located? (This may seem kinda silly, >>>>> but what happens when you want to expose the result set to the world… ? ) >>>>> >>>>> Now for something slightly different… >>>>> >>>>> Suppose I have a data source… like a couple of hive tables and I access >>>>> the tables via beeline. (JDBC) In this case… Hive generates a map/reduce >>>>> job and then would stream the result set back to the client node where >>>>> the RDD result set would be built. I realize that I could run Hive on >>>>> top of spark, but that’s a separate issue. Here the RDD will reside on >>>>> the client only. (That is I could in theory run this as a single spark >>>>> instance.) >>>>> If I were to run this on the cluster… then the result set would stream >>>>> thru the beeline gate way and would reside back on the cluster sitting in >>>>> RDDs within each executor? >>>>> >>>>> I realize that these are silly questions but I need to make sure that I >>>>> know the flow of the data and where it ultimately resides. There really >>>>> is a method to my madness, and if I could explain it… these questions >>>>> really would make sense. ;-) >>>>> >>>>> TIA, >>>>> >>>>> -Mike >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >>>>> <mailto:user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org> >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org >>>>> <mailto:user-h...@spark.apache.org> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Best Regards, >>>>> Ayan Guha >>>> >>> >> >> > >
