The document discusses in-depth the capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as a powerful analytics platform built on open-source R, emphasizing its performance, scalability, and integration with big data systems like Teradata. It presents case studies illustrating RRE's effectiveness in optimizing workflows and reducing processing times dramatically, such as cutting down a 3-day analysis to just 10 minutes. Additionally, the document highlights the growth of R as a leading programming language in data science and analytics among professionals worldwide.

1. Mario Inchiosa
Chief Scientist, Revolution Analytics
In-Database Analytics Deep Dive with
Teradata and Revolution R
Tim Miller
Partner Integration Lab, Teradata

2. • Introduction
• Revolution R Enterprise
• Case Study – Global Internet Marketplace
• Under the Hood
• Summary & Questions
Agenda

3. • What data storage/management software do you use?
> Hadoop
> Teradata
> LSF Clusters/Grids
> Servers
Please choose all that apply
Poll Question #1

4. • Most powerful statistical programming language
– Flexible, extensible and comprehensive for productivity
• Most widely used data analysis software
– Used by 2M+ data scientists, statisticians and analysts
• Create beautiful and unique data visualizations
– As seen in New York Times, Twitter and Flowing Data
• Thriving open-source community
– Leading edge of analytics research
• Fills the talent gap
– New graduates prefer R
What is R?
R is Hot
bit.ly/r-is-
hot
WHITE PAPER

5. Exploding growth and demand for R
• R is the highest paid IT skill
> Dice.com, Jan 2014
• R most-used data science language after
SQL
> O’Reilly, Jan 2014
• R is used by 70% of data miners
> Rexer, Sep 2013
• R is #15 of all programming languages
> RedMonk, Jan 2014
• R growing faster than any other data
science language
> KDnuggets, Aug 2013
• More than 2 million users worldwide
R Usage Growth
Rexer Data Miner Survey, 2007-2013
70% of data miners report using R
R is the first choice of more
data miners than any other
software
Source: www.rexeranalytics.com

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Results
Desktop and Server Analytic Architecture
In-Database Analytic Architecture
Results
Server Based vs. In-Database Architectures
Why Is Teradata Different?
Exponential
Performance Improvement
Analyst

7. Node level calculation: 1 2 7 9 = 4.5
• R is distributed across nodes or servers
• Runs independently of the other nodes/servers
> Great for row independent processing such as Model Scoring
> However, for analytic functions requiring all the data such as Model Building…
– Onus is on the R programmer to understand data parallelism
Challenges Running R in Parallel
1 1 1 1 2 9 1 7 9 3 9 9
System level calculation: 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 7 9 9 9 9 = 2.5
Example: Median (Midpoint)
Node Level
1. Find median per node
2. Consolidate and find
the midpoint of the
results
3. Produce the wrong
answer
System Level
1. Sort all the data
2. Take midpoint
3. Produce the right
answer
< Wrong
< Right

8. R Operations on Data
R operates on independent rows
> Score models for a given observation
> Parsing Text field
> Log(x)
R operates on independent
partitions
> Fit a model to a partition such as region,
time, product or store
R operates on the entire data set
> Global sales average
> Regression on all customers
R Client
R Client
R Client

9. • What statistical programming tools do you use?
> R/RRE
> SAS
> SPSS
> Statistica
> KXEN
Please choose all that apply
Poll Question #2

10. Who is Revolution Analytics?
Revolution Analytics

11. OUR COMPANY
The leading provider
of advanced
analytics software
and services
based on open source
R, since 2007
OUR SOFTWARE
The only Big Data, Big
Analytics software
platform based on the
data science language R
SOME KUDOS
Visionary
Gartner Magic Quadrant
for Advanced Analytics
Platforms, 2014

12. Finance Insurance
Healthcare & Pharma Digital Economy Analytics Service Providers
Manufacturing & High Tech

13. Revolution R Enterprise
is….
the only big data big analytics platform
based on open source R, the de facto
statistical computing language for
modern analytics
• High Performance, Scalable Analytics
• Portable Across Enterprise Platforms
• Easier to Build & Deploy Analytics

14. Big Data In-memory bound
Hybrid memory & disk
scalability
Operates on bigger
volumes & factors
Speed of
Analysis
Single threaded Parallel threading Shrinks analysis time
Enterprise
Readiness
Community support Commercial support
Delivers full service
production support
Analytic
Breadth &
Depth
5000+ innovative
analytic packages
Leverage open source
packages plus Big Data
ready packages
Supercharges R
Commercial
Viability
Risk of deployment of
open source
Commercial license
Eliminate risk with open
source
It Has Some Limitations for Enterprises
R: Open Source that Drives Innovation, but…

15. The Big Data Big Analytics Platform
Introducing Revolution R Enterprise (RRE)
DistributedR
DevelopR DeployR
ScaleR
ConnectR
• Big Data Big Analytics Ready
> Enterprise readiness
> High performance analytics
> Multi-platform architecture
> Data source integration
> Development tools
> Deployment tools

16. The Platform Step by Step:
R Capabilities
R+CRAN
• Open source R interpreter
• UPDATED R 3.1.1
• Freely-available R algorithms
• Algorithms callable by RevoR
• Embeddable in R scripts
• 100% Compatible with existing
R scripts, functions and
packages
RevoR
• Based on open source R
• Adds high-performance math
Available On:
• Teradata Database
• Hortonworks Hadoop
• Cloudera Hadoop
• MapR Hadoop
• IBM Platform LSF Linux
• Microsoft HPC Clusters
• Windows & Linux Servers
• Windows & Linux Workstations

17. DeployR
• Web services software
development kit for integration
analytics via Java, JavaScript or
.NET APIs
• Integrates R Into application
infrastructures
Capabilities:
• Invokes R Scripts from
web services calls
• RESTful interface for
easy integration
• Works with web & mobile apps,
leading BI & Visualization tools and
business rules engines
DevelopR
• Integrated development
environment for R
• Visual ‘step-into’ debugger
• Based on Visual Studio Isolated
Shell
Available on:
• Windows
DevelopR DeployR
The Platform Step by Step:
Tools & Deployment

18. DevelopR - Integrated Development Environment
Script with type ahead
and code snippets Solutions window for
organizing code and
data
Packages
installed and
loaded
Objects loaded
in the R
Environment
Object
details
Sophisticated debugging
with breakpoints ,
variable values etc.

19. DeployR - Integration with 3rd Party Software
• Seamless
– Bring the power of R to any web enabled application
• Simple
– Leverage common APIs including JS, Java, .NET
• Scalable
– Robustly scale user and compute workloads
• Secure
– Manage enterprise security with LDAP & SSO
Data Analysis
Business Intelligence
Mobile Web Apps
Cloud / SaaS
R / Statistical
Modeling Expert
DeployR
Deployment
Expert

20. The Platform Step by Step:
Parallelization & Data Sourcing
ConnectR
• High-speed & direct connectors
Available for:
• High-performance XDF
• SAS, SPSS, delimited & fixed format
text data files
• Hadoop HDFS (text & XDF)
• Teradata Database
• ODBC
ScaleR
• Ready-to-Use high-performance
big data big analytics
• Fully-parallelized analytics
• Data prep & data distillation
• Descriptive statistics & statistical
tests
• Correlation & covariance matrices
• Predictive Models – linear, logistic,
GLM
• Machine learning
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Tools for distributing customized
algorithms across nodes
DistributedR
• Distributed computing framework
• Delivers portability across platforms
Available on:
• Teradata Database
• Hortonworks / Cloudera / MapR
• Windows Servers / HPC Clusters
• IBM Platform LSF Linux Clusters
• Red Hat Linux Servers
• SuSE Linux Servers

21. Revolution R Enterprise ScaleR:
High Performance Big Data Analytics
Data Prep, Distillation & Descriptive Analytics
R Data Step
Descriptive
Statistics
Statistical
Tests
Sampling
• Data import – Delimited, Fixed,
SAS, SPSS, ODBC
• Variable creation &
transformation using any R
functions and packages
• Recode variables
• Factor variables
• Missing value handling
• Sort
• Merge
• Split
• Aggregate by category
(means, sums)
• Min / Max
• Mean
• Median (approx.)
• Quantiles (approx.)
• Standard Deviation
• Variance
• Correlation
• Covariance
• Sum of Squares (cross
product matrix)
• Pairwise Cross tabs
• Risk Ratio & Odds Ratio
• Cross-Tabulation of Data
• Marginal Summaries of
Cross Tabulations
• Chi Square Test
• Kendall Rank Correlation
• Fisher’s Exact Test
• Student’s t-Test
• Subsample (observations &
variables)
• Random Sampling

22. Revolution R Enterprise ScaleR (continued)
Predictive
Models
• Covariance/Correlation/Sum
of Squares/Cross-product
Matrix
• Multiple Linear Regression
• Logistic Regression
• Generalized Linear Models
(GLM) - All exponential
family distributions:
binomial, Gaussian, inverse
Gaussian, Poisson, Tweedie.
Standard link functions
including: cauchit, identity,
log, logit, probit.
- User defined distributions
& link functions.
• Classification & Regression
Trees and Forests
• Gradient Boosted Trees
• Residuals for all models
• Histogram
• ROC Curves (actual
data and predicted
values)
• Lorenz Curve
• Line and Scatter Plots
• Tree Visualization
Data
Visualization
Variable
Selection
• Stepwise Regression
• Linear
• Logistic
• GLM
• Monte Carlo
• Run open source R
functions and
packages across
cores and nodes
Cluster
Analysis
• K-Means
Classification
& Regression
• Decision Trees
• Decision Forests
• Gradient Boosted Trees
• Prediction (scoring)
• PMML Export
Simulation
and HPC
Deployment
Statistical Modeling Machine Learning

23. DistributedR
ScaleR
ConnectR
DeployR
Write Once…Deploy Anywhere.
DESIGNED FOR SCALE, PORTABILITY & PERFORMANCE
In the Cloud Amazon AWS
Workstations & Servers Windows
Linux
Clustered Systems IBM Platform LSF
Microsoft HPC
Hadoop Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR
EDW Teradata Database

24. • Challenge: Model and score 250M
customers
• Server-based workflow was
taking 3 days
• Move calculation in-database to
drastically reduce runtime,
process twice as many
customers, and increase lift
Case Study - Global Internet Marketplace

25. • Binomial Logistic Regression
> 50+ Independent variables including categorical with indicator
variables
> Train from small sample (many thousands) – not a problem in and
of itself
> Scoring across entire corpus (many hundred millions) – slightly
more challenging
Existing Open Source R model

26. • Same Binomial Logistic Regression
> 50+ Independent variables including categorical with indicator
variables
> Train from large sample (many millions) – more accurately
captures user patterns and increases lift
> Scoring across entire corpus (many hundred millions) – completes
in minutes
Revolution R Enterprise model

27. By moving the compute to the data
RRE Used to Optimized the Current Process
Before After
Reduced 3 day process to 10 minutes

28. Scaling study: Time vs. Number of Rows
Benchmarking the Optimized Process
rows
time
NOTE:
• Teradata Environment
> 4 node, 1700 Appliance
• RRE Environment
> version 7.2,
> R 3.0.2
Server-based (Not In-DB) In-DB

29. • Before
trainit <- glm(as.formula(specs[[i]]), data = training.data, family='binomial', maxit=iters)
fits <- predict(trainit, newdata=test.data, type='response')
• After
trainit <- rxGlm(as.formula(specs[[i]]), data = training.data, family='binomial', maxIterations=iters)
fits <- rxPredict(trainit, newdata=test.data, type='response')
Recode Open Source R to Revolution R Enterprise
Optimization process

30. Revolution R
Enterprise
How RRE Scale R
Actually Works

31. Open
Source R
Revolution R
Enterprise
Computation (4-core laptop) Open Source R Revolution R Speedup
Linear Algebra1
Matrix Multiply 176 sec 9.3 sec 18x
Cholesky Factorization 25.5 sec 1.3 sec 19x
Linear Discriminant Analysis 189 sec 74 sec 3x
General R Benchmarks2
R Benchmarks (Matrix Functions) 22 sec 3.5 sec 5x
R Benchmarks (Program Control) 5.6 sec 5.4 sec Not appreciable
1. http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/why-revolution-r/benchmarks.php
2. http://r.research.att.com/benchmarks/
Customers report 3-50x
performance improvements
compared to Open Source R —
without changing any code
RevoR - Performance Enhanced R
Revolution R Enterprise:

32. Across Cores and Nodes
Scalable and Parallelized

33. • Anatomy of a PEMA: 1) Initialize, 2) Process Chunk,
3) Aggregate, 4) Finalize
• Process a chunk of data at a time, giving linear scalability
• Process an unlimited number of rows of data in a fixed amount of
RAM
• Independent of the “compute context” (number of cores,
computers, distributed computing platform), giving portability
across these dimensions
• Independent of where the data is coming from, giving portability
with respect to data sources
“Parallel External Memory Algorithms”
Scalability and Portability of PEMAs

34. • Efficient computational algorithms
• Efficient memory management – minimize data copying and
data conversion
• Heavy use of C++ templates; optimal code
• Efficient data file format; fast access by row and column
• Models are pre-analyzed to detect and remove duplicate
computations and points of failure (singularities)
• Handle categorical variables efficiently
ScaleR Performance

35. Speed and Scalability Comparison
• Unique PEMAs: Parallel, external-
memory algorithms
• High-performance, scalable
replacements for R/SAS analytic
functions
• Parallel/distributed processing
eliminates CPU bottleneck
• Data streaming eliminates
memory size limitations
• Works with in-memory and disk-
based architectures

36. In-Database Billion Row Logistic Regression
• 114 seconds on Teradata
2650 (6 nodes, 72 cores),
including time to read data
• Scales linearly with number
of rows
• Scales linearly with number
of nodes: 3x faster than on 2
node Teradata system

37. Allstate compares SAS, Hadoop, and R for
Big-Data Insurance Models
Approach Platform Time to fit
SAS 16-core Sun Server 5 hours
rmr/MapReduce 10-node 80-core
Hadoop Cluster
> 10 hours
R 250 GB Server Impossible (> 3 days)
Revolution R Enterprise In-Teradata on
6-node 2650
3.3 minutes
Generalized linear model, 150 million observations, 70 degrees of freedom
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/10/allstate-big-data-glm.html

38. • At what stage are you in your in-database analytics
deployment project?
> Still researching tools and methods
> Evaluating/Selecting data storage/management platform
> Evaluating/Selecting analytics programming tools
> Launched the project/working on it now
> We’re done and looking for another one!
Please select one answer
Poll Question #3

39. • Revolution R Enterprise has a new “data source”, RxTeradata (ODBC and
TPT)
# Change the data source if necessary
tdConn <- "DRIVER=…; IP=…; DATABASE=…; UID=…; PWD=…“
teradataDS <- RxTeradata(table=“…", connectionString=tdConn, …)
• Revolution R Enterprise has a new “compute context”, RxInTeradata
# Change the “compute context”
tdCompute <- rxInTeradata(connectionString=..., shareDir=..., remoteShareDir=...,
revoPath=..., wait=.., consoleOutput=...)
• Sample code for R Logistic Regression
# Specify model formula and parameters
rxLogit(ArrDelay>15 ~ Origin + Year + Month + DayOfWeek + UniqueCarrier
+ F(CRSDepTime), data=teradataDS)
RRE End-User’s Perspective

40. • Table User Defined Functions (UDFs) allow users to place a
function in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement
• Table Operators extend the existing table UDF capability:
> Table Operators are Object Oriented
– Inputs and outputs can be arbitrary and not “fixed” as Table UDF’s require
> Table Operators have a simpler row iterator interface
– Interface simply produces output rows providing a more natural application development
interface than Table UDF’s
> Table operators operate on a stream of rows.
– Rows are buffered for high-performance, eliminating row at a time processing
> Table operators support PARTITON BY and ORDER BY
– Allows the development of Map Reduce style operators in-database
Table Operators – Teradata 14.10+

41. RRE Architecture in Teradata 14.10+
Worker
Process
Message Passing Layer
Master Process …
Request Response Teradata 14.10+
Data
Partition
Data
Partition
Data
Partition
Data
Partition
Master Process
Worker
Process
Worker
Process
Worker
Process…
* All communication is done by binary BLOB’s
PE Layer
AMP Layer
1. RRE commands are sent to a “Master
Process” - an External Stored Procedure
(XSP) in the Parsing Engine that provides
parallel coordination
2. RRE analytics are split into “Worker
Process” tasks that run in a Table Operator
(TO) on every AMP.
a. HPA analytics iterate over the data,
and intermediate results are
analyzed and managed by the XSP.
b. HPC analytics do not iterate, and
final results from each AMP are
returned to the XSP
3. Final combined results are assembled by
the XSP and returned to the user
tdConnect <- rxTeradata(<data, connection string, …>)
tdCompute <- rxInTeradata(<data, server arguments, …>)
** PUT-based Installer

42. • High-performance, scalable, portable, fully-featured
algorithms
• Integration with R ecosystem
• Compatibility with Big Data ecosystem
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