cascalog: All content tagged as cascalog in NoSQL databases and polyglot persistence
Saturday, 23 February 2013
An Overview of Scalding
An intro to Scalding1, Twitter’s Scala API for Cascading, by Dean Wampler2:
“There’s not better way to write general-purpose Hadoop MapReduce programs when specialized tools like Hive and Pig aren’t quite what you need.”
Watch the video and slides after below.
✚ At Twitter, the creators of Scalding, different teams use different libraries for dealing with different scenarios.
✚ Dean Wampler is the co-author of the Programming Scala book so his preference for Scala is understandable.
✚ Do you know any other teams or companies using Scalding instead of Cascading or Cascalog?
Original title and link: An Overview of Scalding (©myNoSQL)
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Twitter and Their Cascading Libraries for Dealing With Different Scenarios
This is the only interesting paragraph from InfoWorld’s article “Twitter’s programmers speed Hadoop development“:
Three Twitter teams are using Cascading in combination with programming languages: The revenue team uses Scala, the publisher analytics team uses Clojure, and the analytics team uses Jython.
Each of these combinations led to new projects:
- Scala + Cascading => Scalding
- Clojure + Cascading => Cascalog
- Jython + Cascading => PyCascading
An interesting question I couldn’t answer is why each team prefers a different language. My hypothesis:
- Scala with its strong typing for handling clear models generating numbers that must always be correct.
- Clojure for designing new analysis models
- Jython enables quick experimentation with data.
Your thoughts?
Original title and link: Twitter and Their Cascading Libraries for Dealing With Different Scenarios (©myNoSQL)
Monday, 23 July 2012
Cascalog and Cascading: Productivity Solutions for Data Scientists
A good explanation of why Cascading, Cascalog, and other frameworks hiding away the details of MapReduce are making things easier for non-programmers:
Data scientists at The Climate Corporation chose to create their algorithms in Cascalog, which is a high-level Clojure-based machine learning language built on Cascading. Cascading is an advanced Java application framework that abstracts the MapReduce APIs in Apache Hadoop and provides developers with a simplified way to create powerful data processing workflows. Programming in Cascalog, data scientists create compact expressions that represent complex batch-oriented AI and machine learning workflows. This results in improved productivity for the data scientists, many of whom are mathematicians rather than computer scientists. It also gives them the ability to quickly analyze complex data sets without having to create large complicated programs in MapReduce. Furthermore, programmers at The Climate Corporation also use Cascading directly for creating jobs inside Hadoop streaming to process additional batch-oriented data workflows.
Original title and link: Cascalog and Cascading: Productivity Solutions for Data Scientists (©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.concurrentinc.com/case-studies/climate-corp/
Monday, 27 February 2012
Cascalog-Checkpoint: Fault-Tolerant MapReduce Topologies
A brief but very clear explanation of the benefits of using Cascalog-checkpoints by Paul Lam:
Building Cascading/Cascalog queries can be visualised as assembling pipes to connect a flow of data. Imagine that you have Flow A and B. Flow B uses the result from A along with other bits. Thus, Flow B is dependent on A. Typically, if a MapReduce job fail for whatever reason, you simply fix what’s wrong and start the job all over again. But what if Flow A takes hours to run (which is common for a MR job) and the error happened in Flow B? Why re-do all that processing for Flow A if we know that it finished successfully?
Original title and link: Cascalog-Checkpoint: Fault-Tolerant MapReduce Topologies (©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.quantisan.com/cascalog-checkpoint-fault-tolerant-mapreduce-topologies/
Monday, 20 February 2012
Lightning Talk on Cascalog
Just 19 slides, but Paul Lam manages to provide both a comparison of Cascalog and Hive, plus an overview of the most interesting bits of Cascalog.
Cascalog vs Hive
Cascalog Query Pipe Assembly
Highly recommended for understanding what’s in the Cascalog box.
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Looking for a Map Reduce Language
Java, Cascading, Pipes - C++, Hive, Pig, Rhipe, Dumbo, Cascalog… which one of these should you use for writing Map Reduce code?
Antonio Piccolboni takes them up for a test:
At the end of this by necessity incomplete and unscientific language and library comparison, there is a winner and there isn’t. There isn’t because language comparison is always multidimensional and subjective but also because the intended applications are very different. On the other hand, looking for a general purpose, moderately elegant, not necessarily most efficient, not necessarily mature language for exploration purposes, Rhipe seems to fit the bill pretty nicely.
Original title and link: Looking for a Map Reduce Language (©myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.piccolboni.info/2011/04/looking-for-map-reduce-language.html
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
ElephantDB and Storm Join the Twitter Flock
That’s to say BackType, creators of Cascalog, ElephantDB, and Storm , has been acquired by Twitter (which in case you didn’t know names most of their open source libraries and storage solutions using bird names).
The announcement is here . Looking forward to seeing Storm open sourced.
Original title and link: ElephantDB and Storm Join the Twitter Flock (©myNoSQL)
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Simhashing in Hadoop with MapReduce, Cascalog and Cascading
Simhashing in MapReduce is a quick way to find clusters in a huge amount of data. By using Cascading and Cascalog we’re able to work with MapReduce jobs at the level of functions rather than individual map-reduce phases.
Original title and link: Simhashing in Hadoop with MapReduce, Cascalog and Cascading (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Friday, 18 February 2011
BackType’s ElephantDB
I didn’t know BackType’s ElephantDB is open source and available on GitHub, same as their Cascalog the Clojure based query language for Hadoop.
Original title and link: BackType’s ElephantDB (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Big Data Analysis at BackType
RWW has a nice post diving into the data flow and the tools used by BackType, a company with only 3 engineers, to deal and analyze large amounts of data.
They’ve invented their own language, Cascalog, to make analysis easy, and their own database, ElephantDB, to simplify delivering the results of their analysis to users. They’ve even written a system to update traditional batch processing of massive data sets with new information in near real-time.
Some highlights:
- 25 terabytes of compressed binary data, over 100 billion individual records
- all services and data storage are on Amazon S3 and EC2
- 60 up to 150 EC2 instances servicing an average of 400 requests/s
- Clojure and Python as platform languages
- Hadoop, Cascading and Cascalog are central pieces of BackType’s platform
- Cascalog, a Clojure-based query language for Hadoop, was created and open sourced by BackType’s engineer Nathan Marz
- ElephantDB, the storage solution, is a read-only cluster built on top of BerkleyDB files
- Crawlers place data in Gearman queues for processing and storing
BackType data flow is presented in the following diagram:
Included below is an interview with Nathan about Cascalog:
Original title and link: Big Data Analysis at BackType (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtypes-data-engineers.php
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Quick Reference: Hadoop Tools Ecosystem
Just a quick reference of the continuously growing Hadoop tools ecosystem.
Hadoop
The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.
HDFS
A distributed file system that provides high throughput access to application data.
MapReduce
A software framework for distributed processing of large data sets on compute clusters.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH)
Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) sets a new standard for Hadoop-based data management platforms.
ZooKeeper
A high-performance coordination service for distributed applications. ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.
HBase
A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables.
Avro
A data serialization system. Similar to ☞ Thrift and ☞ Protocol Buffers.
Sqoop
Sqoop (“SQL-to-Hadoop”) is a straightforward command-line tool with the following capabilities:
- Imports individual tables or entire databases to files in HDFS
- Generates Java classes to allow you to interact with your imported data
- Provides the ability to import from SQL databases straight into your Hive data warehouse
Flume
Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently moving large amounts of data soon after the data is produced.
archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/flume/
Hive
Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop that provides tools to enable easy data summarization, adhoc querying and analysis of large datasets data stored in Hadoop files. It provides a mechanism to put structure on this data and it also provides a simple query language called Hive QL which is based on SQL and which enables users familiar with SQL to query this data. At the same time, this language also allows traditional map/reduce programmers to be able to plug in their custom mappers and reducers to do more sophisticated analysis which may not be supported by the built-in capabilities of the language.
Pig
A high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel computation. Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets.
Oozie
Oozie is a workflow/coordination service to manage data processing jobs for Apache Hadoop. It is an extensible, scalable and data-aware service to orchestrate dependencies between jobs running on Hadoop (including HDFS, Pig and MapReduce).
Cascading
Cascading is a Query API and Query Planner used for defining and executing complex, scale-free, and fault tolerant data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster.
Cascalog
Cascalog is a tool for processing data on Hadoop with Clojure in a concise and expressive manner. Cascalog combines two cutting edge technologies in Clojure and Hadoop and resurrects an old one in Datalog. Cascalog is high performance, flexible, and robust.
github.com/nathanmarz/cascalog
HUE
Hue is a graphical user interface to operate and develop applications for Hadoop. Hue applications are collected into a desktop-style environment and delivered as a Web application, requiring no additional installation for individual users.
You can read more about HUE on ☞ Cloudera blog.
Chukwa
Chukwa is a data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems. Chukwa is built on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Map/Reduce framework and inherits Hadoop’s scalability and robustness. Chukwa also includes a flexible and powerful toolkit for displaying, monitoring and analyzing results to make the best use of the collected data.
Mahout
A Scalable machine learning and data mining library.
Integration with Relational databases
- Oracle
- Hadoop connector for Oracle Ora-Oop
- Hadoop and Oracle Parallel Processing
Integration with Data Warehouses
The only list I have is MapReduce, RDBMS, and Data Warehouse, but I’m afraid it is quite a bit old. So maybe someone could help me update it.
Anything else? Once we validate this list, I’ll probably have to move it on the NoSQL reference
Original title and link: Quick Reference: Hadoop Tools Ecosystem (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
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