Axibase Time-Series Database (ATSD) is a purpose-built solution for analyzing and reporting on massive volumes of time-series data collected at high frequency.

1. Axibase Time Series Database

2. Axibase Time Series Database
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Axibase Time-Series Database (ATSD) is a clustered non-relational database for the storage of
various information coming out of the IT infrastructure. ATSD is specifically designed to store and
analyze large amounts of statistical data collected at high frequency.

3. Database History
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• 1970 – IBM introduced relational algebra for data processing.
• Cambrian explosion of relational database management systems:
• 2000 – first large-scale applications emerge, such as Google Search.
• 2004 – Google Big Table – first non-relational database using distributed file system.
• Currently we are experiencing Cambrian explosion of non-relational (a.k.a. NoSQL) databases:

4. Key Differences Between SQL and NoSQL
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SQL NoSQL
High-level Programming Language SQL
Transactions
Query Optimizer
Non-key indexes

5. Key Differences Between SQL and NoSQL
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SQL NoSQL
Scalability TB PB
Maximum Cluster Size 48 (Oracle RAC) 1000+
Distributed
Read Time
Depends on table size and
indexes
Linear
Write Time
Depends on table size and
indexes
Linear
Table Schema (column names,
data types)
Predetermined
Raw bytes. Schema
determined by application

6. How Proven Is NoSQL Technology
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NoSQL is the leading technology behind big data applications.
• Google – search, gmail, AppEngine
• Yahoo/Microsoft – search
• Amazon – e-commerce, search, cloud computing (AWS DynamoDB)
• IBM Big Insights, Microsoft Azure HD Insight

7. Big Data Adoption
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HBase behind Facebook Messages:
• 6+ billion messages per day
• 75+ billion R/W operations per day
• Peak throughput: 1.5 million R/W operations per second
• 2+ petabytes of data (6+ PB including replicas) with data growth of over 8 TB per day

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IBM BigInsights behind Vestas:
• A wind energy company in Denmark is reducing the time to analyze petabytes of data from
several weeks to 15 minutes to improve the accuracy of wind turbine placement.
• Stores 2.8 PB of company historical data together with over 178 external parameters:
temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, precipitation, wind direction, wind velocity etc.
• Stores precise data on weather over the past 11 years.
• Collects data from over 35,000 meteorological stations.

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HBase behind Explorys:
• Explorys uses HBase to enable search and analysis of patient populations, treatment protocols,
and clinical outcomes.
• Stores over 275 billion clinical, financial and operational data elements.
• 48 million unique patient files.
• Collecting data from over 340 hospitals and 300,000 healthcare providers.
• Pull data from 22 integrated major healthcare systems.

10. Axibase Time Series Database
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Scalability & Speed
• Collects billions of samples per day. Retains detailed data forever.
Features
• Combines database, rule engine, and visualization in one product.
Analytical Rule Engine
• Applies aggregate functions and filters on streaming data.
Integration
• Accepts data from any source based on industry-standard protocols.
Visualization
• Built-in portals with smart widgets.

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12. Big Data for IT Monitoring
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• Retain detailed data forever.
• Collect statistics at high-frequency, for example every 15 seconds.
• Consolidate performance statistics from all systems into one database: facilities, network,
storage, servers, applications, databases, transactions, service providers, user activity etc.
• Monitor infrastructure based on abnormal deviations instead of manual thresholds.
• Apply statistical formulas to predict outages.
• Take advantage of schema-less database to collect data from any source.

13. Big Data for Developers
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• Support for annotation-style instrumentation.
• Alternative to byte-code instrumentation and
file logging.
• Collect detailed performance and usage
statistics for reporting and analytics, without
writing custom monitors.

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• Gather and analyze statistical data generated by the various systems and sensors.
• Analytics that can support decision control systems.
• Allows for better real‐time operations decision‐support.
• Generate accurate forecasts of upcoming issues:
• Delays
• Scheduled maintenance based on product usage and sensor data instead of warranty
periods
• Improved customer service times and standards.

15. ATSD Architecture
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• ATSD architecture combines database,
analytics and reporting tools into one
complete product.
• Data locality makes analytics run faster.
• Application server layer is simplified to
provide core shared services

16. ATSD Components
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• Pluggable driver provides support for
different storage engines
• Compute, persistence and data
collection layers scaled independently

17. Fault Tolerance
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• ATSD is a distributed system,
with high fault tolerance.
• Each data sample is
automatically replicated 3
times for recovery.

18. ATSD Scalability
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• ATSD is a distributed, non-relational database with high throughput, fault tolerance and reading
speed.
• ATSD can collect billions of metrics per day and store petabytes of data.
• ATSD supports millisecond resolution and sampling intervals of up to several measurements per
second. The data is stored without losing accuracy.
• Additional nodes can be added at runtime to handle increasing volumes. ATSD automatically
distributes the table across active nodes.
• New nodes can be added in remote data centers to minimize network traffic.

19. Supported Data Types
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• Two types of data ingestion: push and pull.
• ATSD supports numeric values, log messages and properties (collection of key-values).
• ATSD uses collectors for retrieving structured and unstructured data from remote sources.
• Support for standard protocols: Telnet, ICMP, CSV/TSV, FILE, JMX, HTTP, and JSON.

20. Data Collection
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• Collection is agentless; data is pushed by external systems into ATSD.
• New metrics are auto-registered. No need to update schema or restart any server components.
• Existing monitoring tools can be instrumented to stream data into ATSD.
• Each data sample can be tagged (key = value) at source for subsequent querying, aggregations,
and roll-ups.

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• Built-in data compression provides 70%-80% disk space savings over raw data.
• No data needs to be deleted. Seek time is almost linear regardless of the dataset size.
• Data storage is sparse and efficient. ATSD stores only what is collected instead of long rows with
NULLs or zeros, as is the case in relational model.
• VMware VMFS-attached disks are sufficient for small to medium clusters.
• Direct attached disks with JBOD are recommended for larger clusters.
• JBOD alternatives to minimize node recovery time are available from leading storage vendors,
such as NetApp E-Series.

22. Built-in Instruments
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Unlike conventional data warehouses, ATSD comes with a set of built-in tools for data analysis:
• Analytical Rule Engine
• Forecasting
• Visualization

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• Evaluates incoming data in memory based on statistical rules.
• Statistical rules are applied to the incoming data stream before data is
stored on disk.
• As data is ingested by ATSD server, a subset of samples that match rule
queries are routed to the rule engine for processing.
• Rule Engine supports both time- and count- based data windows.
• Rule expressions and filters can reference not just numeric values but also
tags such as system type, location, priority to ensure that alerts are raised
only for critical issues.
• Multiple metrics and entities can be correlated within the same rule.

24. Analytical Rule Engine – Rule Examples
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Type Window Example Description
threshold none value > 75 Raise an alert if last metric value exceeds threshold
range none value > 50 AND value <= 75 Raise an alert if value is outside of specified range
statistical-count count(10) avg(value) > 75 Raise an alert if average value of the last 10 samples exceeds threshold
statistical-time time('15 min') avg(value) > 75 Raise an alert if average value for the last 15 minutes exceeds threshold
statistical-deviation time('15 min') avg(value) / avg(value(time: '1 hour')) >
1.25
Raise an alert if 15-minute average exceeds 1-hour average by more than 25%
statistical-ungrouped time('15 min') avg(value) > 75 Raise an alert if 15-minute average values for all entities in the group exceeds threshold
metric correlation time('15 min') avg(value) > 75 AND avg(value(metric:
'loadavg.1m')) > 0.5
Raise an alert if average values for two separate metrics for the last 15 minutes exceed predefined
thresholds
entity correlation time('15 min') avg(value) > 75 AND avg(value(entity:
'host2')) > 75
Raise an alert if average values for two entities for the last 15 minutes exceed thresholds
threshold override time('15 min') avg(value) >= entity.groupTag('cpu
_avg').min()
Raise an alert if 15-minute average value exceeds minimum threshold specified for groups to which
the entity belongs
cpu forecast deviation time('5 min') abs(forecast_deviation(wavg())) > 2 Raise an alert if 5-minute average deviates from forecast by more than two standard deviations
cpu forecast diff time('10 min') abs(wavg() - forecast()) > 25 Raise alert if absolute forecast deviates from average by more than specified value
disk threshold time('15 min') new_maximum() &&
threshold_linear_time(99) < 120
Raise alert if last value is the highest observed and linear threshold is expected to violate the 99%
threshold in less than 120 minutes

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27. Forecasting
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• Customers have a growing need to predict problems before they occur. The accuracy of
predictions and the percentage of false positives/negatives highly depends on the frequency of
data collection, the retention interval, and algorithms.
• The use of built-in autoregressive time-series extrapolation algorithms (Holt-Winters, ARIMA,
etc.) in ATSD allows predicting of system failures at early stages.
• The forecasting process is resource intensive and is most effective in a clustered system with
data locality such as ATSD.
• Dynamic predictions eliminate the need to set manual thresholds.

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• ATSD selects the most accurate
forecasting algorithm for each
time-series separately based on a
ranking system.
• The winning algorithm is used to
compute forecast for the next day,
week or month.
• Pre-computed forecasts can be
used in rule engine.

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32. Visualization
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• ATSD can be integrated with Axibase Enterprise Reporting using the ATSD adapter
• ATSD comes with a wide variety of widgets for creating interactive portals directly in ATSD.
• ATSD widgets are designed from the ground-up to handle large data sets and calculations on the
client.
• ATSD visualization is supported on mobile devices and Smart TVs.

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34. Search
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• Implemented in ATSD is log file search system to detect problems in distributed systems for the
purposes of security, audit and change control.
Notifications
• Supports standard notification mechanisms: email, console, web service, and notification in the
environment.
• For example, Axibase LED lighting system - the "Data Cube", which changes colors depending on
the status of IT services.

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• Enables customers to extract value from data that already exists in their operational and IT
infrastructures.
• Delivers preemptive monitoring through identification of abnormal behaviors in production
systems.
• Eliminates most manually-defined rules from the customer’s monitoring catalog.
• Serves as a centralized repository for historical data.
• Directly supported by AER for Dashboards, Reports, Capacity Planning

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• Operating Systems:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6+
• Ubuntu 12.04+
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10+
• Computing Hardware:
Edition Community - FREE Standard Enterprise
ATSD Nodes 1 1 + 1 > 5
Processors 2 vCPU, 2+ GHz 4 vCPU, 2+ GHz 4 vCPU, 2+ GHz
Memory 4 GB (2GB for JVM) 16 GB (8GB for JVM) 16 GB (8GB for JVM)

37. Use Cases
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• ITM long-term history extension
• nmon reporting for AIX, Linux and Solaris
• Minimize exceptions in monitoring catalog
• Collect environmental data from SCADA
• Predictive Maintenance – based on sensors

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• ITM can be instrumented to write streaming data into CSV files.
• CSV can be instantly uploaded into ATSD using inotify utility and wget.
• Example: private history streaming in ITM
• KHD_CSV_OUTPUT_ACTIVATE = Y

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• Warehouse Proxy Agent is setup to save history data to CSV file
on the local machine.
• ATSD ingests the CSV files for analytics and long-term storage.
• ATSD converts the data using built in parsers.

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• Consolidate trusted statistics from UNIX systems in one database
• ATSD is able to collect, parse and analyze nmon files
• Analyze nmon data with forecasting algorithms
• Capitalize on nmon data with two predefined visualization portals or easily create your own
portals using built-in HTML5 widgets

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Predefined AIX Portal

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Predefined Linux Portal

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