>I think in this case moving all of the data to Hadoop and blacklisting it
from the mysql inserter seems like the right thing to do.
>I agree. We should implement partial auto-purging in Hadoop though. In the
Echo schema some fields should still be purged.
Right, being able to move all this data to hadoop is contingent on having a
purging strategy. Filed ticket to do this:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121657

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Sure, it doesn't have space problems, but the problem remains that with a
>> table this large, it's impossible to query and get results in our lifetime.
>
> I see, makes sense.
>
> I think in this case moving all of the data to Hadoop and blacklisting it
>> from the mysql inserter seems like the right thing to do.
>
> I agree. We should implement partial auto-purging in Hadoop though. In the
> Echo schema some fields should still be purged.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Just spoke with Jaime Crespo and he confirmed that:
>>>
>>>    - m4-master (master EL database) only holds events for the last 45
>>>    days to avoid space problems. That's for all tables including Echo.
>>>
>>>    - analytics-storage is the replica that keeps the historical data
>>>    and is meant to apply the specific purging strategy agreed in the 
>>> schema's
>>>    talk page. This database does not have space problems (yet).
>>>
>>> Sure, it doesn't have space problems, but the problem remains that with
>> a table this large, it's impossible to query and get results in our
>> lifetime.  So we need to come up with some better solutions where we have
>> these huge volumes of valuable data.  I think in this case moving all of
>> the data to Hadoop and blacklisting it from the mysql inserter seems like
>> the right thing to do.  The only reason for data to exist in mysql should
>> be if we're querying data on a frequent period basis and taking actions
>> based on the results of those queries.  Otherwise it's a waste of resources
>> and we should allocate that disk space to something else.
>>
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