1. B. RAMAMURTHY Big-data Computing 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011 1

2. Reference Apache Hadoop: http://hadoop.apache.org/http://hadoop.apache.org/ http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, by Tom White, 2 nd edition, Oreilly’s, 2010 Dean, J. and Ghemawat, S. 2008. MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters. Communication of ACM 51, 1 (Jan. 2008), 107-113.MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters 6/22/2016 2 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

3. Background Problem space is experiencing explosion of data Solution space: emergence of multi-core, virtualization, cloud computing Inability of traditional file system to handle data deluge The Big-data Computing Model MapReduce Programming Model (Algorithm) Google File System; Hadoop Distributed File System (Data Structure) Microsoft Dryad ( Large scale Data-base processing model) 3 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

4. Data Deluge: smallest to largest Bioinformatics data: from about 3.3 billion base pairs in a human genome to huge number of sequences of proteins and the analysis of their behaviors The internet: web logs, facebook, twitter, maps, blogs, etc.: Analyze … Financial applications: that analyses volumes of data for trends and other deeper knowledge Health Care: huge amount of patient data, drug and treatment data The universe: The Hubble ultra deep telescope shows 100s of galaxies each with billions of stars; 6/22/2016 4 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

5. Examples Computational models that focus on data: large scale and/or complex data Example1: web log fcrawler.looksmart.com - - [26/Apr/2000:00:00:12 -0400] "GET /contacts.html HTTP/1.0" 200 4595 "-" "FAST-WebCrawler/2.1-pre2 (ashen@looksmart.net)" fcrawler.looksmart.com - - [26/Apr/2000:00:17:19 -0400] "GET /news/news.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16716 "-" "FAST-WebCrawler/2.1-pre2 (ashen@looksmart.net)" ppp931.on.bellglobal.com - - [26/Apr/2000:00:16:12 -0400] "GET /download/windows/asctab31.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 1540096 "http://www.htmlgoodies.com/downloads/freeware/webdevelopment/15.html" "Mozilla/4.7 [en]C-SYMPA (Win95; U)"http://www.htmlgoodies.com/downloads/freeware/webdevelopment/15.html 123.123.123.123 - - [26/Apr/2000:00:23:48 -0400] "GET /pics/wpaper.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 6248 "http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/" "Mozilla/4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/ 123.123.123.123 - - [26/Apr/2000:00:23:47 -0400] "GET /asctortf/ HTTP/1.0" 200 8130 "http://search.netscape.com/Computers/Data_Formats/Document/Text/RTF" "Mozilla/4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"http://search.netscape.com/Computers/Data_Formats/Document/Text/RTF 123.123.123.123 - - [26/Apr/2000:00:23:48 -0400] "GET /pics/5star2000.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 4005 "http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/" "Mozilla/4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/ 123.123.123.123 - - [26/Apr/2000:00:23:50 -0400] "GET /pics/5star.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 1031 "http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/" "Mozilla/4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/ 123.123.123.123 - - [26/Apr/2000:00:23:51 -0400] "GET /pics/a2hlogo.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 4282 "http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/" "Mozilla/4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/ 123.123.123.123 - - [26/Apr/2000:00:23:51 -0400] "GET /cgi-bin/newcount?jafsof3&width=4&font=digital&noshow HTTP/1.0" 200 36 "http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/" "Mozilla/4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"http://www.jafsoft.com/asctortf/ Example 2: Climate/weather data modeling 6/22/2016 5 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

6. Problem Space 6 Data scale Compute scale Payroll KiloMegaGigaTera MFLOPS GFLOPS TFLOPS PFLOPS Peta Digital Signal Processing Weblog Mining Business Analytics Realtime Systems Massively Multiplayer Online game (MMOG) Other variables: Communication Bandwidth, ? Exa 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

7. Top Ten Largest Databases 02/28/097 Ref: http://www.businessintelligencelowdown.com/2007/02/top_10_largest_.html 6/22/2016 7 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

8. Processing Granularity Pipelined Instruction level Concurrent Thread level Service Object level Indexed File level Mega Block level Virtual System Level Data size: small Data size: large 8 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

9. Traditional Storage Solutions 9 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

10. Solution Space 10 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

11. Google File System Internet introduced a new challenge in the form web logs, web crawler’s data: large scale “peta scale” But observe that this type of data has an uniquely different characteristic than your transactional or the “customer order” data : “write once read many (WORM)” ; Privacy protected healthcare and patient information; Historical financial data; Other historical data Google exploited this characteristics in its Google file system (GFS) 11 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

12. Data Characteristics Streaming data access Applications need streaming access to data Batch processing rather than interactive user access. Large data sets and files: gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, exabytes size High aggregate data bandwidth Scale to hundreds of nodes in a cluster Tens of millions of files in a single instance Write-once-read-many: a file once created, written and closed need not be changed – this assumption simplifies coherency WORM inspired a new programming model called the MapReduce programming model Multiple-readers can work on the read-only data concurrently 6/22/2016 12 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

13. The Context: Big-data Data mining huge amounts of data collected in a wide range of domains from astronomy to healthcare has become essential for planning and performance. We are in a knowledge economy.  Data is an important asset to any organization  Discovery of knowledge; Enabling discovery; annotation of data  Complex computational models  No single environment is good enough: need elastic, on-demand capacities We are looking at newer  programming models, and  Supporting algorithms and data structures. 6/22/2016 13 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

14. What is Hadoop? At Google MapReduce operation are run on a special file system called Google File System (GFS) that is highly optimized for this purpose. GFS is not open source. Doug Cutting and others at Yahoo! reverse engineered the GFS and called it Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The software framework that supports HDFS, MapReduce and other related entities is called the project Hadoop or simply Hadoop. This is open source and distributed by Apache. 6/23/2010 14 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

15. Hadoop Projects Nutch and Lucene were started with “search” as the application in mind; Hadoop Distributed file system and mapreduce were found to have applications beyond search. HDFS and MapReduce were moved out of Nutch as a sub-project of Lucene and later promoted into a apache project Hadoop Lets look at HDFS and MapReduce 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011 15

16. Basic Features: HDFS Highly fault-tolerant High throughput Suitable for applications with large data sets Streaming access to file system data Can be built out of commodity hardware HDFS provides Java API for applications to use.Java API A HTTP browser can be used to browse the files of a HDFS instance. 6/23/2010 16 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

17. Fault tolerance Failure is the norm rather than exception A HDFS instance may consist of thousands of server machines, each storing part of the file system’s data. Since we have huge number of components and that each component has non-trivial probability of failure means that there is always some component that is non-functional. Detection of faults and quick, automatic recovery from them is a core architectural goal of HDFS. 6/23/2010 17 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

18. Data Characteristics Streaming data access Applications need streaming access to data Batch processing rather than interactive user access. Large data sets and files: gigabytes to terabytes size High aggregate data bandwidth Scale to hundreds of nodes in a cluster Tens of millions of files in a single instance Write-once-read-many: a file once created, written and closed need not be changed – this assumption simplifies coherency A map-reduce application or web-crawler application fits perfectly with this model. 6/22/2016 18 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

19. Namenode and Datanodes Master/slave architecture HDFS cluster consists of a single Namenode, a master server that manages the file system namespace and regulates access to files by clients. There are a number of DataNodes usually one per node in a cluster. The DataNodes manage storage attached to the nodes that they run on. HDFS exposes a file system namespace and allows user data to be stored in files. A file is split into one or more blocks and set of blocks are stored in DataNodes. DataNodes: serves read, write requests, performs block creation, deletion, and replication upon instruction from Namenode. 6/23/2010 19 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

20. HDFS Architecture 6/23/2010 20 Namenode B replication Rack1 Rack2 Client Blocks Datanodes Client Write Read Metadata ops Metadata(Name, replicas..) (/home/foo/data,6... Block ops Bina Ramamurthy 2010

21. Hadoop Distributed File System 6/23/2010 21 Application Local file system Master node Name Nodes HDFS Client HDFS Server Block size: 2K Block size: 128M Replicated Bina Ramamurthy 2010

22. Architecture 6/22/2016 22 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

23. Namenode and Datanodes Master/slave architecture HDFS cluster consists of a single Namenode, a master server that manages the file system namespace and regulates access to files by clients. There are a number of DataNodes usually one per node in a cluster. The DataNodes manage storage attached to the nodes that they run on. HDFS exposes a file system namespace and allows user data to be stored in files. A file is split into one or more blocks and set of blocks are stored in DataNodes. DataNodes: serves read, write requests, performs block creation, deletion, and replication upon instruction from Namenode. 6/22/2016 23 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

24. HDFS Architecture 6/22/2016 24 Namenode B replication Rack1 Rack2 Client Blocks Datanodes Client Write Read Metadata ops Metadata(Name, replicas..) (/home/foo/data,6... Block ops Bina Ramamurthy 2011

25. File system Namespace 6/22/2016 25 Hierarchical file system with directories and files Create, remove, move, rename etc. Namenode maintains the file system Any meta information changes to the file system recorded by the Namenode. An application can specify the number of replicas of the file needed: replication factor of the file. This information is stored in the Namenode. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

26. Data Replication 6/22/2016 26 HDFS is designed to store very large files across machines in a large cluster. Each file is a sequence of blocks. All blocks in the file except the last are of the same size. Blocks are replicated for fault tolerance. Block size and replicas are configurable per file. The Namenode receives a Heartbeat and a BlockReport from each DataNode in the cluster. BlockReport contains all the blocks on a Datanode. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

27. Replica Placement 6/22/2016 27 The placement of the replicas is critical to HDFS reliability and performance. Optimizing replica placement distinguishes HDFS from other distributed file systems. Rack-aware replica placement:  Goal: improve reliability, availability and network bandwidth utilization Many racks, communication between racks are through switches. Network bandwidth between machines on the same rack is greater than those in different racks. Namenode determines the rack id for each DataNode. Replicas are typically placed on unique racks  Simple but non-optimal  Writes are expensive  Replication factor is 3 Replicas are placed: one on a node in a local rack, one on a different node in the local rack and one on a node in a different rack. 1/3 of the replica on a node, 2/3 on a rack and 1/3 distributed evenly across remaining racks. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

28. Replica Selection 6/22/2016 28 Replica selection for READ operation: HDFS tries to minimize the bandwidth consumption and latency. If there is a replica on the Reader node then that is preferred. HDFS cluster may span multiple data centers: replica in the local data center is preferred over the remote one. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

29. Safemode Startup 6/22/2016 29 On startup Namenode enters Safemode. Replication of data blocks do not occur in Safemode. Each DataNode checks in with Heartbeat and BlockReport. Namenode verifies that each block has acceptable number of replicas After a configurable percentage of safely replicated blocks check in with the Namenode, Namenode exits Safemode. It then makes the list of blocks that need to be replicated. Namenode then proceeds to replicate these blocks to other Datanodes. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

30. Filesystem Metadata 6/22/2016 30 The HDFS namespace is stored by Namenode. Namenode uses a transaction log called the EditLog to record every change that occurs to the filesystem meta data.  For example, creating a new file.  Change replication factor of a file  EditLog is stored in the Namenode’s local filesystem Entire filesystem namespace including mapping of blocks to files and file system properties is stored in a file FsImage. Stored in Namenode’s local filesystem. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

31. Namenode 6/22/2016 31 Keeps image of entire file system namespace and file Blockmap in memory. 4GB of local RAM is sufficient to support the above data structures that represent the huge number of files and directories. When the Namenode starts up it gets the FsImage and Editlog from its local file system, update FsImage with EditLog information and then stores a copy of the FsImage on the filesytstem as a checkpoint. Periodic checkpointing is done. So that the system can recover back to the last checkpointed state in case of a crash. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

32. Datanode 6/22/2016 32 A Datanode stores data in files in its local file system. Datanode has no knowledge about HDFS filesystem It stores each block of HDFS data in a separate file. Datanode does not create all files in the same directory. It uses heuristics to determine optimal number of files per directory and creates directories appropriately: When the filesystem starts up it generates a list of all HDFS blocks and send this report to Namenode: Blockreport. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

33. Protocol 6/22/2016 33 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

34. The Communication Protocol 6/22/2016 34 All HDFS communication protocols are layered on top of the TCP/IP protocol A client establishes a connection to a configurable TCP port on the Namenode machine. It talks ClientProtocol with the Namenode. The Datanodes talk to the Namenode using Datanode protocol. RPC abstraction wraps both ClientProtocol and Datanode protocol. Namenode is simply a server and never initiates a request; it only responds to RPC requests issued by DataNodes or clients. Bina Ramamurthy 2011

35. Robustness 6/22/2016 35 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

36. Possible Failures Primary objective of HDFS is to store data reliably in the presence of failures. Three common failures are: Namenode failure, Datanode failure and network partition. 6/22/2016 36 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

37. DataNode failure and heartbeat A network partition can cause a subset of Datanodes to lose connectivity with the Namenode. Namenode detects this condition by the absence of a Heartbeat message. Namenode marks Datanodes without Hearbeat and does not send any IO requests to them. Any data registered to the failed Datanode is not available to the HDFS. Also the death of a Datanode may cause replication factor of some of the blocks to fall below their specified value. 6/22/2016 37 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

38. Re-replication The necessity for re-replication may arise due to:  A Datanode may become unavailable,  A replica may become corrupted,  A hard disk on a Datanode may fail, or  The replication factor on the block may be increased. 6/22/2016 38 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

39. Cluster Rebalancing HDFS architecture is compatible with data rebalancing schemes. A scheme might move data from one Datanode to another if the free space on a Datanode falls below a certain threshold. In the event of a sudden high demand for a particular file, a scheme might dynamically create additional replicas and rebalance other data in the cluster. These types of data rebalancing are not yet implemented: research issue. 6/22/2016 39 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

40. Data Integrity Consider a situation: a block of data fetched from Datanode arrives corrupted. This corruption may occur because of faults in a storage device, network faults, or buggy software. A HDFS client creates the checksum of every block of its file and stores it in hidden files in the HDFS namespace. When a clients retrieves the contents of file, it verifies that the corresponding checksums match. If does not match, the client can retrieve the block from a replica. 6/22/2016 40 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

41. Metadata Disk Failure FsImage and EditLog are central data structures of HDFS. A corruption of these files can cause a HDFS instance to be non-functional. For this reason, a Namenode can be configured to maintain multiple copies of the FsImage and EditLog. Multiple copies of the FsImage and EditLog files are updated synchronously. Meta-data is not data-intensive. The Namenode could be single point failure: automatic failover has been recently added with a backup namenode. 6/22/2016 41 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

42. Data Organization 6/22/2016 42 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

43. Data Blocks HDFS support write-once-read-many with reads at streaming speeds. A typical block size is 64MB (or even 128 MB). A file is chopped into 64MB chunks and stored. 6/22/2016 43 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

44. Staging A client request to create a file does not reach Namenode immediately. HDFS client caches the data into a temporary file. When the data reached a HDFS block size the client contacts the Namenode. Namenode inserts the filename into its hierarchy and allocates a data block for it. The Namenode responds to the client with the identity of the Datanode and the destination of the replicas (Datanodes) for the block. Then the client flushes it from its local memory. 6/22/2016 44 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

45. Staging (contd.) The client sends a message that the file is closed. Namenode proceeds to commit the file for creation operation into the persistent store. If the Namenode dies before file is closed, the file is lost. This client side caching is required to avoid network congestion; also it has precedence is AFS (Andrew file system). 6/22/2016 45 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

46. Replication Pipelining When the client receives response from Namenode, it flushes its block in small pieces (4K) to the first replica, that in turn copies it to the next replica and so on. Thus data is pipelined from Datanode to the next. 6/22/2016 46 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

47. API (Accessibility) 6/22/2016 47 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

48. Application Programming Interface HDFS provides Java API for application to use.Java API Python access is also used in many applications. Python A C language wrapper for Java API is also available. A HTTP browser can be used to browse the files of a HDFS instance. 6/22/2016 48 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

49. FS Shell, Admin and Browser Interface HDFS organizes its data in files and directories. It provides a command line interface called the FS shell that lets the user interact with data in the HDFS. The syntax of the commands is similar to bash and csh. Example: to create a directory /foodir /bin/hadoop dfs –mkdir /foodir There is also DFSAdmin interface available Browser interface is also available to view the namespace. 6/22/2016 49 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

50. Space Reclamation When a file is deleted by a client, HDFS renames file to a file in be the /trash directory for a configurable amount of time. A client can request for an undelete in this allowed time. After the specified time the file is deleted and the space is reclaimed. When the replication factor is reduced, the Namenode selects excess replicas that can be deleted. Next heartbeat transfers this information to the Datanode that clears the blocks for use. 6/22/2016 50 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

51. MapReduce Engine 6/22/2016 51 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

52. What is MapReduce? MapReduce is a programming model Google has used successfully is processing its “big-data” sets (~ 20000 peta bytes per day)  A map function extracts some intelligence from raw data.  A reduce function aggregates according to some guides the data output by the map.  Users specify the computation in terms of a map and a reduce function,  Underlying runtime system automatically parallelizes the computation across large-scale clusters of machines, and  Underlying system also handles machine failures, efficient communications, and performance issues. -- Reference: Dean, J. and Ghemawat, S. 2008. MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters. Communication of ACM 51, 1 (Jan. 2008), 107-113.MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters 6/23/2010 52 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

53. Classes of problems “mapreducable” Benchmark for comparing: Jim Gray’s challenge on data- intensive computing. Ex: “Sort” Google uses it for wordcount, adwords, pagerank, indexing data. Simple algorithms such as grep, text-indexing, reverse indexing Bayesian classification: data mining domain Facebook uses it for various operations: demographics Financial services use it for analytics Astronomy: Gaussian analysis for locating extra-terrestrial objects. Expected to play a critical role in semantic web and web3.0 6/23/2010 53 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

54. Dogs Cats Snakes Fish (Pet database size: TByte) map split combine reduce part0 part1 part2 MapReduce Example in my Operating System Class 6/23/2010 54 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

55. Count Large scale data splits Parse-hash Map pair Reducers (say, Count) P-0000 P-0001 P-0002, count1, count2,count3 6/23/2010 55 Bina Ramamurthy 2010

56. MapReduce Engine MapReduce requires a distributed file system and an engine that can distribute, coordinate, monitor and gather the results. Hadoop provides that engine through (the file system we discussed earlier) and the JobTracker + TaskTracker system. JobTracker is simply a scheduler. TaskTracker is assigned a Map or Reduce (or other operations); Map or Reduce run on node and so is the TaskTracker; each task is run on its own JVM on a node. 6/22/2016 56 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

57. Job Tracker Is a service with Hadoop system It is like a scheduler Client application is sent to the JobTracker It talks to the Namenode, locates the TaskTracker near the data (remember the data has been populated already). JobTracker moves the work to the chosen TaskTracker node. TaskTracker monitors the execution of the task and updates the JobTracker through heartbeat. Any failure of a task is detected through missing heartbeat. Intermediate merging on the nodes are also taken care of by the JobTracker 6/22/2016 57 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

58. TaskTracker It accepts tasks (Map, Reduce, Shuffle, etc.) from JobTracker Each TaskTracker has a number of slots for the tasks; these are execution slots available on the machine or machines on the same rack; It spawns a sepearte JVM for execution of the tasks; It indicates the number of available slots through the hearbeat message to the JobTracker 6/22/2016 58 Bina Ramamurthy 2011

59. MapReduce Example: Mapper This is a cat Cat sits on a roof > > The roof is a tin roof There is a tin can on the roof > > > > > Cat kicks the can It rolls on the roof and falls on the next roof > > > The cat rolls too It sits on the can > 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011 59

60. MapReduce Example: Combiner, Reducer > > > > > > > > > > > Combine the counts of all the same words: > … Reduce (sum in this case) the counts: 6/22/2016 Bina Ramamurthy 2011 60

61. Summary We discussed the features of the Hadoop File System, a peta-scale file system to handle big-data sets. We discussed: Architecture, Protocol, API, etc. Also MapReduce Engine, Application Architecture Next task is to understand mapreduce and implement a simple mapreduce job on HDFS 6/22/2016 61 Bina Ramamurthy 2011