Apache Apex and Apache Geode are two of the most promising incubating open source projects. Combined, they promise to fill gaps of existing big data analytics platforms. Apache Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that unifies stream and batch processing. Apex is highly scalable, performant, fault tolerant, and strong in operability. Apache Geode provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing. We will also look at some use cases where how these two projects can be used together to form distributed, fault tolerant, reliable in memory data processing layer. Presented at Geode summit - https://2016.event.geodesummit.com/schedule/sessions/apex_geode_in_memory_streaming_storage_analytics.html

1. In-Memory Streaming, Storage & Analy4cs
Apache Apex + Apache Geode
Thomas Weise Ashish Tadose

2. • In-memory Stream Processing
• Par22oning and Scaling out
• Windowing Support (temporal)
• Stateful Fault-tolerance, Operability
• Processing Guarantees
• Compute Locality
• Dynamic updates
Apex Features …

3. Apex PlaGorm Overview

4. Applica2on Programming Model Applica2on Programming Model
§ Stream is a sequence of data tuples
§ Operator takes one or more input streams, performs computations & emits one or more output streams
– Each Operator is YOUR custom business logic in java, or built-in operator from our open source library
– Operator has many instances that run in parallel and each instance is single-threaded
§ Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is made up of operators and streams
– Iterative processing supported
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
Output StreamTuple Tuple
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5. Apache Apex-Malhar

6. Apex Na2ve Hadoop Integra2on
YARN is the resource
manager
HDFS used for storing
any persistent state

7. • Operator state is checkpointed to a persistent store
– Automa2cally performed by engine, no addi2onal work needed by operator
– In case of failure operators are restarted from checkpoint state
– Frequency configurable per operator
– Asynchronous and distributed by default
– Default store is HDFS
• Automa2c detec2on and recovery of failed operators
– Heartbeat mechanism
• Buffering mechanism to ensure replay of data from recovered point so that
there is no loss of data
• Applica2on master state checkpointed
Apex Fault Tolerance

8. At-least-once
• On recovery data will be replayed from a previous checkpoint
– No messages lost
– Default, suitable for most applica2ons
• Can be used to ensure data is wriUen once to store
– Transac2ons with meta informa2on, Rewinding output, Feedback from external en2ty,
Idempotent opera2ons
At-most-once
• On recovery the latest data is made available to operator
– Useful where data loss is acceptable and latest data is sufficient
Exactly-once
– At-least-once + idempotency + transac2onal mechanisms (operator logic) to achieve end-to-end
exactly once behavior
Apex Processing Seman2cs

9. • Data flow in-memory, no disk
• Incremental recovery – buffer server
• In-memory data for querying data
IMC Benefits for Apex

10. Streaming meets In Memory Data Grid

11. Apex + Geode Integra2on
Completed
• Operator check-poin2ng in Geode.
• Output operator to store tuples in Geode region.
Proposed
• Geode output operator with Transac2onal support.
• Ingest data from Geode to Apex DAG.
• Distributed Cache Operator.
• Scan operator for parallel query execu2on & result retrieval.

12. Operator Checkpoin2ng in Geode
Apex Operator check-poin4ng in an IMDG (Geode store)
• Checkpoin2ng is an essen2al mechanism to ensure Fault Tolerance
• Apex checkpoints operator state to HDFS
• Slower HDFS checkpoin2ng hurts applica2on performance
• Checkpoin2ng in Geode ensures that applica2on performance is not impacted
• Geode has beUer latency for write opera2ons than HDFS.
Implementa4on: GeodeStorageAgent
hUps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-283

13. Data Streams to Geode Store
Apex Output Operator to write to Geode store
• Apex Output operator – Egress data from Apex DAG to external store
• Store incoming tuples in binary / POJO format in Geode region
• Geode Efficient Query integra2on – OQL
• Geode region supports data replica2on, overflow to disk, persistence & many evic2on
strategies
Implementa4on: GeodeStore
GeodePOJOPutOperator
AbstractGeodePutOperator
hUps://malhar.atlassian.net/projects/MLHR/issues/MLHR-1942

14. Geode Transac2ons writes
Apex Output Operator to write to Geode store with Transac4ons
• Apex DAG uses Transac2onableStore to provide guarantee that records are wriUen are
exactly once. E.g. JdbcTransac2onalStore
• Geode provides Transac2on support for efficient and safe coordinated opera2ons
• Geode store using transac2ons guarantee that records are wriUen exactly once
• Put operator backed by GeodeTransac2onal store can help to achieve Exactly once
seman2cs
Implementa4on: GeodeWindowStore as Transac2onableStore

15. Streaming Geode data in Apex
Apex Input Operator to read from Geode store
• Apex Input operators – Ingest data from external sources into Apex DAG
• Geode provides versa2le and reliable event distribu2on to provide Real Time
updates to data
• Use case – Apex operator to stream async events from Geode in DAG
• Call back events reduce polling cycles over network
Implementa4on: GeodeRegionStreamOperator
receives a newly added tuples and emits in DAG

16. Geode Cache Operator
Apex Geode Cache Operator
• Geode provides efficient Events & No2fica2ons
• Register interest – update local copies
• Con2nuous Query
• Receive no2fica2on when Query condi2on met on server
• Eg.g SELECT * FROM /tradeOrder t WHERE t.price > 100.00
• Use Geode events no2fica2on framework to maintain & invalidate cache.
Implementa4on: GeodeCacheOperator
maintains consistent cache based on subscribed keyset/query

17. Geode Scan Operator
Apex Geode Scan Operator
• Func2on Execu2on provides Parallel Query Execu2on
• MapReduce like execu2on - concurrent execu2on on members & results are
collected from members & sent to caller.
• Use case: Streaming applica2on depending on large scan result from external store
Implementa4on: GeodeQueryOperator
execute data dependent queries on distributed region
emit results in DAG

18. Join the Apache Geode Community!
• Check out: http://geode.incubator.apache.org
• Subscribe: user-subscribe@geode.incubator.apache.org
• Download: http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/

19. Ques4ons ???
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