Alcon, You can most certainly do this. I’ve done benchmarking with Spark SQL and the TPCDS queries using S3 as the filesystem.
Zeppelin and Livy server work well for the dash boarding and concurrent query issues: https://hortonworks.com/blog/livy-a-rest-interface-for-apache-spark/ Livy Server will allow you to create multiple spark contexts via REST: https://livy.incubator.apache.org/ If you are looking for broad SQL functionality I’d recommend instantiating a Hive context. And Spark is able to spill to disk --> https://spark.apache.org/faq.html There are multiple companies running spark within their data warehouse solutions: https://ibmdatawarehousing.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/steinbach_dashdb_local_spark/ Edmunds used Spark to allow business analysts to point Spark to files in S3 and infer schema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsR1ljgZLq0 Recommend running some benchmarks and testing query scenarios for your end users; but it sounds like you’ll be using it for exploratory analysis. Spark is great for this ☺ -Pat From: Vadim Semenov <vadim.seme...@datadoghq.com> Date: Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 1:06 PM To: Gourav Sengupta <gourav.sengu...@gmail.com> Cc: Phillip Henry <londonjava...@gmail.com>, ashish rawat <dceash...@gmail.com>, Jörn Franke <jornfra...@gmail.com>, Deepak Sharma <deepakmc...@gmail.com>, spark users <user@spark.apache.org> Subject: Re: Spark based Data Warehouse It's actually quite simple to answer > 1. Is Spark SQL and UDF, able to handle all the workloads? Yes > 2. What user interface did you provide for data scientist, data engineers and > analysts Home-grown platform, EMR, Zeppelin > What are the challenges in running concurrent queries, by many users, over > Spark SQL? Considering Spark still does not provide spill to disk, in many > scenarios, are there frequent query failures when executing concurrent queries You can run separate Spark Contexts, so jobs will be isolated > Are there any open source implementations, which provide something similar? Yes, many. On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Gourav Sengupta <gourav.sengu...@gmail.com<mailto:gourav.sengu...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Ashish, what you are asking for involves at least a few weeks of dedicated understanding of your used case and then it takes at least 3 to 4 months to even propose a solution. You can even build a fantastic data warehouse just using C++. The matter depends on lots of conditions. I just think that your approach and question needs a lot of modification. Regards, Gourav On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Phillip Henry <londonjava...@gmail.com<mailto:londonjava...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, Ashish. You are correct in saying that not *all* functionality of Spark is spill-to-disk but I am not sure how this pertains to a "concurrent user scenario". Each executor will run in its own JVM and is therefore isolated from others. That is, if the JVM of one user dies, this should not effect another user who is running their own jobs in their own JVMs. The amount of resources used by a user can be controlled by the resource manager. AFAIK, you configure something like YARN to limit the number of cores and the amount of memory in the cluster a certain user or group is allowed to use for their job. This is obviously quite a coarse-grained approach as (to my knowledge) IO is not throttled. I believe people generally use something like Apache Ambari to keep an eye on network and disk usage to mitigate problems in a shared cluster. If the user has badly designed their query, it may very well fail with OOMEs but this can happen irrespective of whether one user or many is using the cluster at a given moment in time. Does this help? Regards, Phillip On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 5:50 PM, ashish rawat <dceash...@gmail.com<mailto:dceash...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks Jorn and Phillip. My question was specifically to anyone who have tried creating a system using spark SQL, as Data Warehouse. I was trying to check, if someone has tried it and they can help with the kind of workloads which worked and the ones, which have problems. Regarding spill to disk, I might be wrong but not all functionality of spark is spill to disk. So it still doesn't provide DB like reliability in execution. In case of DBs, queries get slow but they don't fail or go out of memory, specifically in concurrent user scenarios. Regards, Ashish On Nov 12, 2017 3:02 PM, "Phillip Henry" <londonjava...@gmail.com<mailto:londonjava...@gmail.com>> wrote: Agree with Jorn. The answer is: it depends. In the past, I've worked with data scientists who are happy to use the Spark CLI. Again, the answer is "it depends" (in this case, on the skills of your customers). Regarding sharing resources, different teams were limited to their own queue so they could not hog all the resources. However, people within a team had to do some horse trading if they had a particularly intensive job to run. I did feel that this was an area that could be improved. It may be by now, I've just not looked into it for a while. BTW I'm not sure what you mean by "Spark still does not provide spill to disk" as the FAQ says "Spark's operators spill data to disk if it does not fit in memory" (http://spark.apache.org/faq.html). So, your data will not normally cause OutOfMemoryErrors (certain terms and conditions may apply). My 2 cents. Phillip On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Jörn Franke <jornfra...@gmail.com<mailto:jornfra...@gmail.com>> wrote: What do you mean all possible workloads? You cannot prepare any system to do all possible processing. We do not know the requirements of your data scientists now or in the future so it is difficult to say. How do they work currently without the new solution? Do they all work on the same data? I bet you will receive on your email a lot of private messages trying to sell their solution that solves everything - with the information you provided this is impossible to say. Then with every system: have incremental releases but have then in short time frames - do not engineer a big system that you will deliver in 2 years. In the cloud you have the perfect possibility to scale feature but also infrastructure wise. Challenges with concurrent queries is the right definition of the scheduler (eg fairscheduler) that not one query take all the resources or that long running queries starve. User interfaces: what could help are notebooks (Jupyter etc) but you may need to train your data scientists. Some may know or prefer other tools. On 12. Nov 2017, at 08:32, Deepak Sharma <deepakmc...@gmail.com<mailto:deepakmc...@gmail.com>> wrote: I am looking for similar solution more aligned to data scientist group. The concern i have is about supporting complex aggregations at runtime . Thanks Deepak On Nov 12, 2017 12:51, "ashish rawat" <dceash...@gmail.com<mailto:dceash...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello Everyone, I was trying to understand if anyone here has tried a data warehouse solution using S3 and Spark SQL. Out of multiple possible options (redshift, presto, hive etc), we were planning to go with Spark SQL, for our aggregates and processing requirements. If anyone has tried it out, would like to understand the following: 1. Is Spark SQL and UDF, able to handle all the workloads? 2. What user interface did you provide for data scientist, data engineers and analysts 3. What are the challenges in running concurrent queries, by many users, over Spark SQL? Considering Spark still does not provide spill to disk, in many scenarios, are there frequent query failures when executing concurrent queries 4. Are there any open source implementations, which provide something similar? Regards, Ashish
