Transcript cassandra

Cassandra in xPatterns
Seattle Java User’s Group
May 2014
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Agenda
• xPatterns Architecture
• Export to NoSql API & GUI (Demo)
• xPatterns dashboard application (Demo)
• xPatterns monitoring and instrumentation (Demo)
• Data model optimization
• Publishing from HDFS/Hive/Shark to Cassandra
• Generated REST API’s
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Instrumentation
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Throttling & auto-retries
• Geo-Replication
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Cross-data-center replication, encryption & failover
• Lessons Learned since 0.6 till 2.0.6
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Export to NoSql API
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Datasets in the warehouse need to be exposed to high-throughput low-latency real-time
APIs. Each application requires extra processing performed on top of the core datasets,
hence additional transformations are executed for building data marts inside the
warehouse
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Exporter tool builds the efficient data model and runs an export of data from a Shark/Hive
table to a Cassandra Column Family, through a custom Spark job with configurable
throughput (configurable Spark processors against a Cassandra ring) (instrumentation
dashboard embedded, logs, progress and instrumentation events pushed though SSE)
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Data Modeling is driven by the read access patterns provided by an application engineer
building dashboards and visualizations: lookup key, columns (record fields to read), paging,
sorting, filtering
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The end result of a job run is a REST API endpoint (instrumented, monitored, resilient, georeplicated) that uses the underlying generated Cassandra data model and fuels the data in
the dashboards
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Configuration API provided for creating export jobs and executing them (ad-hoc or
scheduled).
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Mesos/Spark cluster
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Cassandra multi DC ring – write latency
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Nagios monitoring
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Referral Provider Network
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One of the many applications that we built for our largest healthcare customers using
the xPatterns APIs and tools on the new upgraded infrastructure: ELT Pipeline, Jaws,
Export to NoSql API. The dashboard for the RPN application was built using D3.js and
angular against the generic api published by the export tool.
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The application allows for building a graph of downstream and upstream referred and
referring providers, grouped by specialty, with computed aggregates like patient counts,
claim counts and total charged amounts. RPN is used for both fraud detection and for
aiding a clinic buying decision, by following the busiest graph paths.
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The dataset behind the app consists of 8 billion medical records, from which we
extracted 1.7 million providers (Shark warehouse) and built 53 million relationships in
the graph (persisted in Cassandra)
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While we demo the graph building we will also look at the Graphite instrumentation
dashboard for analyzing the runtime performance of the geo-replicated Cassandra read
operations (latency in the 20-50ms range)
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Graphite – Cassandra multi DC ring
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VPC-to-VPC IPSEC Tunnel
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Lessons learned 0.6 - 2.0.6
• NTP: synchronize ALL clocks (servers and clients)
• Reduce the number of CFs (avoid OOM)
• Rows not too skinny and not too wide (avoid OOM)
o Less memory pressure during high-throughput writes
o Reduced network I/O, less rows, more column slices
o Key cache & bloom filter index size affects perf
o Efficient compaction, avoid hot spots
• Custom serialization and dynamic columns for maximum perf gain
• Do not drop CFs before emptying them (truncate/compact first)
• Monitoring, instrumentation, automatic restarts
• ConsistencyLevel: ONE is best … for our use cases
• Key cache, Snappy compression, vnodes
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Q&A
Oh btw … we’re hiring!
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