Why to use spark-submit if spark-shell is there ? 1. Spark shell spawns executors on random nodes and hence chances of data Locality will be very less. 2. Spark-submit based on the Nodes where the data is saved spawns the excutors hence spark-submit will be more performant as compared to spark-shell. 3. Spark shell is good in situations when data exploration needs to be done as it provides a interactive CLI to run your code. ... View more

Apache Spark is a fast, in-memory data processing engine with elegant and expressive development APIs to allow data workers to efficiently execute streaming, machine learning or SQL workloads that require fast iterative access to datasets. With Spark running on Apache Hadoop YARN, developers everywhere can now create applications to exploit Spark’s power, derive insights, and enrich their data science workloads within a single, shared dataset in Hadoop. The Hadoop YARN-based architecture provides the foundation that enables Spark and other applications to share a common cluster and dataset while ensuring consistent levels of service and response. Spark is now one of many data access engines that work with YARN in HDP. https://hortonworks.com/apache/spark/ Spark code samples: http://bytepadding.com/spark/ Take Away 1. Spark is a library and not a service. 2. Spark interacts with multiple services like HDFS and YARN to process data. 3. Spark client also has YARN client wrapped within it. 4. Spark can be configured to run both locally and on the cluster 5. Spark context is the entry point to interact with a Spark process. 6. Spark is a JVM based execution engine. Take Away 1. Each line of your code is parsed to prepare a spark Plan. 2. sc.TextFile => results in fetching the metaInfo from Name Node of where are the file Blocks are located and requesting YARN for containers on those host. Text File also provides the information about the record delimeter used ( new line character in case of Text). 3. The transformations are all grouped together in a Task. The transformation are serialized on driver and send to the executors. Do appreciate all transformation and object creation happens on Driver and subsequently sent to executors. 4. Reduce by results in Data Shuffling know as Stages in Spark. 5. saveAsTextFile interacts with Name Node to get information about where to save the file and saves the file on HDFS. ... View more

Hadoop Distributed File System HDFS is a Java-based file system that provides scalable and reliable data storage, and it was designed to span large clusters of commodity servers. HDFS has demonstrated production scalability of up to 200 PB of storage and a single cluster of 4500 servers, supporting close to a billion files and blocks. When that quantity and quality of enterprise data is available in HDFS, and YARN enables multiple data access applications to process it, Hadoop users can confidently answer questions that eluded previous data platforms. HDFS is a scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed storage system that works closely with a wide variety of concurrent data access applications, coordinated by YARN. HDFS will “just work” under a variety of physical and systemic circumstances. By distributing storage and computation across many servers, the combined storage resource can grow linearly with demand while remaining economical at every amount of storage. Take Away 1. HDFS is based on a master Slave Architecture with Name Node (NN) being the master and Data Nodes (DN) being the slaves. 2. Name Node stores only the meta Information about the files, actual data is stored in Data Node. 3. Both Name Node and Data Node are processes and not any super fancy Hardware. 4. The Data Node uses the underlying OS file System to save the data. 4. You need to use HDFS client to interact with HDFS. The hdfs clients always talks to Name Node for meta Info and subsequently talks to Data Nodes to read/write data. No Data IO happens through Name Node. 5. HDFS clients never send data to Name Node hence Name Node never becomes a bottleneck for any Data IO in the cluster 6. HDFS client has "short-circuit" feature enabled hence if the client is running on a Node hosting Data Node it can read the file from the Data Node making the complete read/write Local. 7. To even make it simple imagine HDFSclient is a web client and HDFS as whole is a web service which has predefined task to GET, PUT, COPYFROMLOCAL etc. How is a 400 MB file Saved on HDFS with hdfs block size of 100 MB. The diagram shows how first block is saved. In case of replication each block will be saved 3 on different Data Nodes. The meta info saved on Name Node (Replication Factor of 3 is used hence each block is saved thrice) Block Placement Strategy Place the first replica somewhere – either a random node (if the HDFS client is outside the Hadoop/DataNode cluster) or on the local node (if the HDFS client is running on a node where data Node is running. "short-circuit" optimization). Place the second replica in a different rack. (This ensures if power supply of one rock goes down still the block can be read from other rack.) Place the third replica in the same rack as the second replica. ( This ensures in case a yarn container can be allocated on a give host, the data will be served from a host in the same rack. Data transfer in same rack is faster as compared to across rack ) If there are more replicas – spread them across the rest of the racks. YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator ) "does it ring a bell 'Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle' YAHOO" YARN is essentially a system for managing distributed applications. It consists of a central Resource manager (RM), which arbitrates all available cluster resources, and a per-node Node Manager (NM), which takes direction from the Resource manager. The Node manager is responsible for managing available resources on a single node. http://hortonworks.com/hadoop/yarn/ Take Away 1. YARN is based on a master Slave Architecture with Resource Manager being the master and Node Manager being the slaves. 2. Resource Manager keeps the meta info about which jobs are running on which Node Manage and how much memory and CPU is consumed and hence has a holistic view of total CPU and RAM consumption of the whole cluster. 3. The jobs run on the Node Manager and jobs never get execute on Resource Manager. Hence RM never becomes a bottleneck for any job execution. Both RM and NM are processes and not some fancy hardware 4. Container is logical abstraction for CPU and RAM. 5. YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) is scheduling container (CPU and RAM ) over the whole cluster. Hence for end user if he needs CPU and RAM in the cluster it needs to interact with YARN 6. While Requesting for CPU and RAM you can specify the Host one which you need it. 7. To interact with YARN you need to use yarn-client which How HDFS and YARN work in TANDEM 1. Name Node and Resource Manager process are hosted on two different host. As they hold key meta information. 2. The Data Node and Node manager processes are co-located on same host. 3. A file is saved onto HDFS (Data Nodes) and to access a file in Distributed way one can write a YARN Application (MR2, SPARK, Distributed Shell, Slider Application) using YARN client and to read data use HDFSclient. 4. The Distributed application can fetch file location ( meta info From Name Node ) ask Resource Manager (YARN) to provide containers on the hosts which hold the file blocks. 5. Do remember the short-circuit optimization provided by HDFS, hence if the Distributed job gets a container on a host which host the file block and tries to read it, the read will be local and not over the network. 6. The same file If read sequentially would have taken 4 sec (100 MB/sec speed) can be read in 1 second as Distributed process is running parallely on different YARN container( Node Manager) and reading 100 MB/sec *4 in 1 second. ... View more

Cluster In Solr, a cluster is a set of Solr nodes operating in coordination with each other via ZooKeeper, and managed as a unit. A cluster may contain many collections. See also SolrCloud. Collection In Solr, one or more Documents grouped together in a single logical index using a single configuration and Schema. In SolrCloud a collection may be divided up into multiple logical shards, which may in turn be distributed across many nodes, or in a Single node Solr installation, a collection may be a single Core. Commit To make document changes permanent in the index. In the case of added documents, they would be searchable after a commit. Core An individual Solr instance (represents a logical index). Multiple cores can run on a single node. See also SolrCloud. Key Take Away 1. Solr works on a non master-slave architecture, every solr node is master of its own. Solr nodes uses Zookeper to learn about the state of the cluster. 2. A solr Node (JVM) can host multiple core 3. Core is the place where Lucene (Index) engine is running. Every core has its own Lucene engine 4. A collection will be divided in shards. 5. A shard will be represented as core (A part of JVM) in the Solr Node (JVM) 6. Every solr node keeps sending heartbeat to Zookeeper to inform about its availability. 7. Usage of Local FS provides the most stable and best IO for solr. 8. A replication factor of 2 should be maintained on local mode to avoid any data loss. 9. Do remember every replication will have a core attached to it and also space is disk. 10. If a collection is divided into 3 shards with replication factor of 3 : in total 9 cores will be hosted across the solr nodes. Data saved on local fs will be 3X 11. Solr node doesnt publish data to ambari metrics by default. A solr metric process ( a seperate process that solr node) needs to be run on every node where solr node is hosted. The metric process fetches data from solr node and pushes to ambari metrics. Solr on HDFS 1. Solr node should be colocated with data nodes for best performance. 2. Because of DataNodes are used used by Spark, Hbase this setup can result into unstable Solr Cloud easily. 3. Because of heavy CPU consumption on data nodes solr nodes can loose to establish heart beat connection to zookeeper resulting in the solr node being removed from solr cluster. 4. Watch for solr logs to make sure short-circuit writes are being used. 5. At collection level you are compelled to use replication factor of 2 else a restart of one node will result in the collection being unavailable. 6. Replication of 2 at collection level and Replication Factor of 3 at HDFS can significantly impact the Write peroformance. 7. Ensure the RF of the Sole HDFS directory is set to 1. Lucene Indexing on single Core Pic taken from : https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-internal-architecture-of-Apache-solr Reference : https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/solr-glossary.html#solrclouddef ... View more

Sqoop is used for importing data from multiple sources onto HDFS. One of the most common use can is to use Hive imports sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sqoop --username root -P --split-by id --columns id,name --table customer --target-dir /user/cloudera/ingest/raw/customers --fields-terminated-by "," --hive-import --create-hive-table --hive-table sqoop_workspace.customers If you want to specify a specific Queue for sqoop job -Dmapred.job.queuename=queueName needs to be immediately added after the import keyword. sqoop import -Dmapred.job.queuename=queueName --connect jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sqoop --username root -P --split-by id --columns id,name --table customer --target-dir /user/cloudera/ingest/raw/customers --fields-terminated-by "," --hive-import --create-hive-table --hive-table sqoop_workspace.customers 
 This will launch the sqoop job in the specific queu but the hive job will be launched in the default queue. To launch the hive job is specific queue make a copy of tez-site.xml and in the queue name add the queue you want the hive job to be executed. Property of tez-site.xml <property> <name>tez.queue.name</name> <value>custom Queue Name </value> </property> export HIVE_CONF_DIR=PATH OF DIR WHERE CUSTOM tez-site.xml is placed run the sqoop job with the export statement executed. Do remember to add -Dmapred.job.queuename=queueName (immediately after import) to set the sqoop queue name and tez-site.xml for hive queue name ... View more