Big Data
Analysis Patterns
Atlanta Big Data User Group
8/15/2013
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whoami
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Brad Anderson

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Solutions Architect at MapR (Atlanta)

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ATLHUG co-chair

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NoSQL East Conference 2009

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“boorad” most places (twitter, github)

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banderson@maprtech.com
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Announcements
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Next ATLHUG Meeting - Sept. 26
– How Google Does Big Data

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Wednesday – MapR Data Warehouse Offload
Roadshow

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MapR Upcoming Training
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MapR M7 & HBase for Developers on August 27 in Campbell, CA
MapR M7 & HBase for Developers on Sept 17 in Reston, VA
MapR M5 for Administrators on Oct 3 in Campbell, CA

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BIG DATA
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Big Data is not new!
but the tools are.

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The Good News in Big Data:

“Simple algorithms and lots of data
trump complex models”

Halevy, Norvig, and Pereira, Google
IEEE Intelligent Systems
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The Challenge: So Many Solutions!
What solutions fit your business problem?
For example, do you need…
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Apache Mahout?

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Storm?

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Apache Solr/Lucene?

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Apache HBase (or MapR M7)?

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Apache Drill (or Impala?)

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d3.js or Tableau?

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Node.js

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Apache Hadoop?

Titan?
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Ask a Different Question
It may be more useful to better define the problem by asking some
of these questions:
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How large is the data to be queried? (the analysis volume)

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What time frame is appropriate for your query response?

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How fast is data arriving? (bursts or continuously?)

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Are queries by sophisticated users?

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Are you looking for common patterns or outliers?

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How large is the data to be stored?

How are your data sources structures?

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Picking the Best Solution
Your responses to these questions can help you better:
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define the problem

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recognize the analysis pattern to which it belongs

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guide the choice of solutions to try

But first, here’s a quick review of a few of the technologies you
might choose, and then we will focus on three of the questions as a
part of the landscape.

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Apache Solr/Lucene
Solr/Lucene is a powerful search engine used for flexible, heavily
indexed queries including data such as
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Full text

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Geographical data

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Statistically weighted data

Solr is a small data tool that has flourished in a big data world

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Apache Mahout
Mahout provides a library of scalable machine learning algorithms
useful for big data analysis based on Hadoop or other storage
systems.

Mahout algorithms mainly are used for
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Recommendation (collaborative filtering)

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Clustering

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Classification

Mahout can be used in conjunction with solutions such as Solr: You
might use Mahout to create a co-occurrence data base that could
then be queried using a search tool such as Solr

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Apache Drill
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Google Dremel clone

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Pluggable Query Languages
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Pluggable Storage Backends
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Starts with ANSI SQL 2003
Hive, Pig, Cascading, MongoQL, …
Hadoop, Hbase
MongoDB (BSON)
RDBMS?

Bypasses MapReduce

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Storm
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Realtime Stream Computation Engine

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Horizontal Scalability

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Guaranteed Data Processing

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Fault Tolerance

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Higher level abstraction over:
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Message Queues
Worker Logic

“The Hadoop of Realtime”

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Titan
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Distributed Graph Database

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Property Graph

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Pluggable Backend Storage
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Search Integrated
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Solr/Lucene
Elastic Search

Faunus
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HBase or M7
Cassandra
Berkeley DB

Batch processing of large graphs

Fulgora
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Graph traversals on subset
In-memory
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Using the Answers to Guide Your Choices
For simplicity, let’s focus in on the first three questions:
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How large is the data to be stored?

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How large is the data to be queried? (the analysis volume)

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What time frame is appropriate for your query response?

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Big Data Decision Tree
How big is your data?
<10 GB

mid
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?

A

Single element
at a time

>200 GB

What size queries?
One pass
over 100%

B

Response time?

C

Big storage

Multiple passes
over big chunks

Streaming

< 100s
(human scale)
D
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throughput
not response
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Use Cases
Company
 Data Shape
 Technique(s)
 Business Value
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Business Value
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Business Value
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Telecommunications Giant

ETL Offload
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Telecommunications

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Data Shape

Lots of Data
Lots of Queries across Large Sets
Throughput important

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Telecommunications

Techniques
Analytics

ETL

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Telecommunications

Techniques

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ETL (Hadoop)

Analytics (Teradata)
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Telecommunications

Business Value

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Credit Card
Issuer

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Credit Card
Issuer

Data Shape
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Customer Purchase History (big)
Merchant Designations
Merchant Special Offers
Throughput important
Recommendations
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Credit Card
Issuer

Techniques
A Recommendation Engine with Mahout and Solr/Lucene

History matrix
One row per user
One column per thing
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Credit Card
Issuer

Techniques
Recommendation based on
cooccurrence
Cooccurrence gives item-item
mapping
One row and column per thing
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Credit Card
Issuer

Techniques
Cooccurrence matrix can also be
implemented as a search index

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Credit Card
Issuer

Techniques
Complete
history

Cooccurrence
(Mahout)

SolR
SolR
Indexer
Solr
Indexer
indexing

Item metadata

Index
shards

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20 Hrs  3 Hrs
Credit Card
Issuer

Techniques
User
history

SolR
SolR
Indexer
Solr
Indexer
search

Web tier

8Hrs  3 Min

Item metadata

Index
shards

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Credit Card
Issuer

Techniques
Hadoop
Purchase
History

Export
(4 hrs)

App
App

Merchant
Information

Recommendation
Engine Results
(Mahout)

Presentation
Data Store
(DB2)

App
App

Merchant
Offers

App

Import
(4 hrs)
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Credit Card
Issuer

Techniques
Hadoop
Purchase
History
Merchant
Information

Recommendation
Engine Results
(Mahout)

Index
Update
(3 min)

App
App

Recommendation
Search Index
(Solr)

App
App

Merchant
Offers

App

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Credit Card
Issuer

Business Value

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Waste & Recycling Leader

Idle Alerts
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Data Shape
Truck Geolocation Data
– 20,000 trucks
– 5 sec interval (arriving quickly)
 Landfill Geographic Boundaries
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Techniques
Realtime Stream Computation
(Storm)

Truck
Geolocation

Data

Hadoop
Storage

Immediate
Alerts

Batch Computation
(MapReduce)

Tax Reduction
Reporting

Shortest Path
Graph Algorithm
(Titan)

Route
Optimization

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Business Value

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Beverage Company

Social Engagement Application

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Data Shape

Tweets, FB Messages
 Person, Activity links
 Graph Traversal
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Consumer Activity Graph
Wal*Mart.com
Ebay
Shopping.com
Sam’s
Ebay Motors
Dollar General
StubHub
CVS

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Toys R Us
Techniques
Property Graph
(Titan)

Social
Activity
Stream
Key/Value Store
(MapR M7)

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Graph Traversal
(Faunus/Fulgora)
Business Value

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Fraud Detection
Data Lake
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Data Sources
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Anti-Money Laundering
Consumer Transactions

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Techniques
Anti-Money Laundering
System

Consumer Transactions
System

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Techniques
AML
Data Lake
(Hadoop)

Suspicious
Events

Consumer
Transactions

Analyst
Latent Dirichlet Allocation,
Bayesian Learning Neural Network,
Peer Group Analysis
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Business Value

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Machine Learning
Search Relevance
DNA Matching
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Data Sources

Birth, Death, Census, Military, I
mmigration records
 Search Behavior Activity
 DNA SNP (snips)
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Techniques
Record Linking
 Search Relevance
 Clickstream Behavior
 Security Forensics
 DNA Matching
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Business Value

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Traffic Analytics
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Data Sources
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Inrix Road Segment Data

Avg Speed / minute / segment
– Reference Speeds
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Road Segment Geolocation Data
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Techniques
 Bottleneck Detection Algorithm
 Time Offset Correlations
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Alternate Routes

Predictive Congestion Analysis

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Growth & Term Assumptions
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Business Value

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Similar Characteristics
Lots of Data
 Structured, Semi-Structured, Unstructured
 Varied Systems Interoperating
– Hadoop, Storm, Solr, MPP, Visualizations
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Increase Revenue
 Decrease Costs
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Questions?

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Big Data Analysis Patterns with Hadoop, Mahout and Solr