Answer: No we can’t get rid of bad records. We have to go back and rebuild the entire file. We can’t edit records but we can get rid of entire files right? This would suggest that appending data to files isn’t that great of an idea. It sounds like it would be more appropriate to cut a hadoop data load up into periodic files (days, months, etc.) that can easily be rebuilt should errors occur....
Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA Principal Mass Street Analytics 913.938.6685 www.linkedin.com/in/bobwakefieldmba Twitter: @BobLovesData From: Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 4:01 AM To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Data cleansing in modern data architecture I’m sorry but I have to revisit this again. Going through the reply below I realized that I didn’t quite get my question answered. Let me be more explicit with the scenario. There is a bug in the transactional system. The data gets written to HDFS where it winds up in Hive. Somebody notices that their report is off/the numbers don’t look right. We investigate and find the bug in the transactional system. Question: Can we then go back into HDFS and rid ourselves of the bad records? If not, what is the recommended course of action? Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA Principal Mass Street Analytics 913.938.6685 www.linkedin.com/in/bobwakefieldmba From: Shahab Yunus Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 4:20 PM To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Data cleansing in modern data architecture I am assuming you meant the batch jobs that are/were used in old world for data cleansing. As far as I understand there is no hard and fast rule for it and it depends functional and system requirements of the usecase. It is also dependent on the technology being used and how it manages 'deletion'. E.g. in HBase or Cassandra, you can write batch jobs which clean or correct or remove unwanted or incorrect data and than the underlying stores usually have a concept of compaction which not only defragments data files but also at this point removes from disk all the entries marked as deleted. But there are considerations to be aware of given that compaction is a heavy process and in some cases (e.g. Cassandra) there can be problems when there are too much data to be removed. Not only that, in some cases, marked-to-be-deleted data, until it is deleted/compacted can slow down normal operations of the data store as well. One can also leverage in HBase's case the versioning mechanism and the afore-mentioned batch job can simply overwrite the same row key and the previous version would no longer be the latest. If max-version parameter is configured as 1 then no previous version would be maintained (physically it would be and would be removed at compaction time but would not be query-able.) In the end, basically cleansing can be done after or before loading but given the append-only and no hard-delete design approaches of most nosql stores, I would say it would be easier to do cleaning before data is loaded in the nosql store. Of course, it bears repeating that it depends on the use case. Having said that, on a side-note and a bit off-topic, it reminds me of the Lamda Architecture that combines batch and real-time computation for big data using various technologies and it uses the idea of constant periodic refreshes to reload the data and within this periodic refresh, the expectations are that any invalid older data would be corrected and overwritten by the new refresh load. Those basically the 'batch part' of the LA takes care of data cleansing by reloading everything. But LA is mostly for thouse systems which are ok with eventually consistent behavior and might not be suitable for some systems. Regards, Shahab On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA <adaryl.wakefi...@hotmail.com> wrote: In the old world, data cleaning used to be a large part of the data warehouse load. Now that we’re working in a schemaless environment, I’m not sure where data cleansing is supposed to take place. NoSQL sounds fun because theoretically you just drop everything in but transactional systems that generate the data are still full of bugs and create junk data. My question is, where does data cleaning/master data management/CDI belong in a modern data architecture? Before it hit hits Hadoop? After? B.
