The document outlines the 3 Ts of Hadoop—Transfer, Transform, and Translate—as a framework for managing enterprise big data. It emphasizes the need for continuous data capture, in-place data transformation, and the creation of actionable data products to enhance business decision-making. The approach aims to reduce latency and streamline the data processing cycle within an integrated Hadoop ecosystem.

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The 3 Ts of Hadoop
Wuheng Luo
Ankur Gupta
06.2013

2. The 3 Ts of Hadoop
3-Stage Circular Process of Enterprise Big Data

3. What is the 3Ts?
3Ts = Transfer, Transform, and Translate
A new enterprise big data pattern
 to bring disruptive change to conventional ETL
 To leverage Hadoop for streamlining data processes
 To move toward real-time analytics

4. The 3Ts Goal
To simplify enterprise data processing, reduce latency to
turn enterprise data from raw form to products of discovery
so as to better support business decisions.

5. The 3Ts One Liners
Transfer
Once the Hadoop system is in place, a mandate is needed to
immediately and continuously capture and deliver all enterprise data,
from all data sources, through all data systems, to Hadoop, and store the
data under HDFS.
Transform
When source data is in, clean, standardize, and convert the data through
dimensional modeling. Data transformation should be performed in-place
within Hadoop, without moving the data out again for integration reasons.
Translate
Finish the data flow cycle by turning analytical data aggregated in
Hadoop to data products of business wisdom. Use batch and streaming
tools built on top of Hadoop to Interact with data scientists and end users.

6. Hadoop as Enterprise Data Hub
“Data Hub” is not a new concept, but:
Conventional Data Hub Hadoop Enterprise Data Hub
RDBMS or EDW based Hadoop ecosystem based
No consistent architectural style:
ODS, MDM, messaging or publish-
subscribe, etc.
3-phased architecture to cover full
enterprise data flow cycle from data
source to data products
Heavily reply on ETL 3Ts-driven
Intermediate, partial, siloed True center of enterprise data
… …

7. TRANSFER
Sourcing Data into Hadoop
Intent
Capture continuously all enterprise data at earliest touch
points possible, deliver the data from all sources, through
all source data systems, to Hadoop, and store the data
under HDFS.

8. TRANSFER
Motivation
To gain distinctive competing capability, enterprises need to
build an integrated data infrastructure as the foundation
for big data analytics. Use Hadoop as THE centralized
enterprise data repository, and make it the grand
destination for all enterprise source data.

9. TRANSFER
(3 Ts’) Transfer vs. (ETL’s) Extract
Traditional ETL - Extract Hadoop - Transfer
Bottom-up Top-down
Task/project specific Enterprise-wide mandate
Passive Proactive
Data is not available when needed Data is ready when needed
Same datasets are moved around
again and again, with no value added
Move the data once, and use it many
times, each time with value increased

10. TRANSFER
Consequences
Before After
Isolated, disconnected in various
siloed data/file systems
Consolidated and centralized in
Hadoop
Monolithically segmented Heterogeneous, diverse, huge
Separated and partial Federated and holistic

11. TRANSFER
Implementation
 Always do a data gap analysis first
 Fork the ingestion in both batch and streaming if needed
 Have a delivery plan for the data feed
 Synchronize data changes between source system and Hadoop

12. TRANSFORM
Integrating Data within Hadoop
Intent
Keep the data flow beyond the ingest phase by transforming
the data from dirty to clean, from raw to standardized, and
from transactional to analytical, all within Hadoop.

13. TRANSFORM
Motivation
As the latency or speed from raw data to business insight
becomes the focal point of enterprise data analytics, use
Hadoop as data integration platform to perform in-place
data transformation.

14. TRANSFORM
Implementation
 Partition enterprise-wide standardized data and job-specific analytical
data in HDFS, and retain history.
 Use dimensional modeling to transform and standardize, make
dimensional data as the atomic unit of enterprise data.
 Identify all enterprise data entities, and add finest grain attributes to
each entity as dimensional data.
 Take a bottom-up approach, also think about data usage across the
enterprise, not specific task bound.

15. TRANSFORM
(3 Ts’) Transform vs. (ETL’s) Transform
Transform in ETL / ELT Transform in 3 Ts
in vitro, outside Hadoop in vivo, within Hadoop
Use Hadoop as rental space Use Hadoop as integration platform
Non-value adding data movement in
between data storage and
transformation
Data is transformed while flowing
from one partition to another under
HDFS
High latency Low latency
Network bottleneck Data locality

16. TRANSLATE
Making Data Products out of Hadoop
Intent
Turn analytical data into data products of business wisdom
using home-made or commercial tools of analytics built on
top of Hadoop. Business decisions supported by data
products will help generate more new data, thus a new
round of enterprise data flow cycle…

17. TRANSLATE
Motivation
Low-latency big data analytics requires right platform/tools
Use Hadoop as the platform of choice for enterprise data
analytics because of its openness and flexibility
Choose analytical tools that are flexible, agile, interactive
and user friendly

18. TRANSLATE
Implementation
 Big data analytics takes a team effort
 Include statisticians, data scientists and developers
 Utilize both generic and Hadoop specific technologies
 Consider both batch and streaming based approaches
 Provide access to pre-computed view and on-the-fly query
 Use both home-made and Hadoop-based commercial tools
 Use web-based, mobile friendly UI
 Visualize

19. The 3 Ts of Hadoop
Continuous Iteration of Enterprise Data Flow

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