Stratio Crossdata is a distributed data hub that integrates batch and streaming query capabilities, enabling efficient data management and analysis. The platform offers features like easy deployment, high read/write performance, and support for various data sources and processing engines. It leverages Apache Spark for enhanced performance and includes capabilities such as full-text search and ODBC integration for business intelligence tools.

1. Stratio Meta
An efficient distributed datahub with batch and
streaming query capabilities
Daniel Higuero
Alvaro Agea
dhiguero@stratio.com
alvaro@stratio.com
#CassandraSummit-20141"

2. Stratio Crossdata
An efficient distributed datahub with batch and
streaming query capabilities
Daniel Higuero
Alvaro Agea
dhiguero@stratio.com
alvaro@stratio.com
#CassandraSummit-20142"

3. Who are we?
STRATIO
• Stra3o-is-a-Big-Data-Company
• Founded-in-2013
• Commercially-launched-in-2014
• 50+-employees-in-Madrid
• Office-in-San-Francisco
• Cer3fied-Spark-distribu3on
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4. We love…
Cassandra
• P2P-architecture
• Read/write-performance
• Fault-tolerance
• Easy-to-deploy
• CQL
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5. • Introduction
• Crossdata architecture
• Metadata management
• Streaming sources
• Full text search
• Spark and Crossdata
• ODBC
• The future
Agenda
5"

6. Introduction
o Big-Data-analysis-is-commonly-associated-with-batch-processing
• Users-aiming-to-combine-batch-and-stream-processing-have-to-
rely-on-tailorRmade-architectures
o Users-buy-Big-Data-plaSorms,-but
• How-do-I-start?
• What-is-my-entry-point-to-the-plaSorm?
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7. What our clients demand?
o Easy-deployment
o Easy-administra3on
o Read/write-performance
o EasyRtoRlearn-query-language-o
Integra3on-with-BI-Tools
o Join-opera3ons
o Support-for-streaming-sources
o Integra3on-with-other-data-stores
o Ability-to-query-data-without-thinking-about-the-schema-(nonRindexed-data)
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8. What our clients demand?
! Easy%deployment%
! Easy%administra0on%
! Read/write%performance%
! Easy6to6learn%query%language%
o Integra3on-with-BI-Tools
o Join-opera3ons
o Support-for-streaming-sources
o Integra3on-with-other-data-stores
o Ability-to-query-data-without-thinking-about-the-schema-(nonRindexed-data)
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9. What our clients demand?
! Easy"deployment"
! Easy"administra8on"
! Read/write"performance"
! Easy>to>learn"query"language"
! Integra3on-with-BI-Tools
! Join-opera3ons
! Support-for-streaming-sources
! Integra3on-with-other-data-stores
! Ability-to-query-data-without-thinking-about-the-schema-(nonRindexed-data)
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10. Crossdata
o A-new-technology-that:
• Is-not-limited-by-the-underlying-datastore-capabili3es
• Leverages-Spark-to-perform-nonRna3vely-supported-opera3ons
• Supports-batch-and-streaming-queries
• Supports-mul3ple-clusters-and-technologies
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11. Our architecture
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12. Connecting to the outside world
o Crossdata-defines-an-IConnector-extension-interface
o User-can-easily-add-new-connectors-to-support
• Different-datastores
• Different-processing-engines
• Different-versions
o Where-each-connector-defines-its-capabili3es
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Our planner will choose the best connector for each query

13. Query execution
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Parsing" Valida8on" Planning" Execu8on"
C*"
Connector1"
Connector2"
Connector3"
Our planner will choose the best connector for each query

14. Multi-cluster support
o Stra3o-Crossdata-offers-the-possibility-of-accessing-a-single-catalog-
across-a-set-of-datastores.-
• Mul3ple-clusters-can-coexist-to-op3mize-plaSorm-performance
" E.g.,-produc3on-cluster,-test-cluster,-writeRop3mized-cluster,-
readRop3mized-cluster,-etc.-
• A-table-is-saved-in-a-unique-datastore
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15. Logical and physical mapping
SELECT&*&FROM&app.users;&
Users"table" Test"table" old_users"table"
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App"catalog"
C*"produc8on" C*"development" Other"datastores"

16. Metadata
Management
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17. Metadata in the era of Schemaless NoSQL datastores
o Some-datastores-are-schemaless-but-our-applica3ons-are-not!-
• Flexible-schemas-vs-Schemaless
• Crossdata-provides-a-Metadata-manager-that-stores-schemas-
for-any-datasource
" Remember-ODBC-and-those-BI-tools
"
1010010101010
1010110101010
1111010001111
?" 001000"
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18. Metadata management
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Connector"
C*"produc8on"
Metadata"Store"
Infinispan"
Metadata"Manager"
2%
Updated"metadata"
informa8on"is"
maintained"among"
Crossdata"servers"
using"Infinispan"
If"the"connector"does"
not"support"metadata"
opera8ons"those"are"
skipped" 1% 2%

19. Streaming sources
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20. Managing streaming sources
o Nowadays-use-cases-expect-some-type-of-streaming-datasource
• Streaming-data-has-an-ephemeral-nature
• In-Stra3o-Crossdata-we-defined-the-ephemeral-table-abstrac3on-
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to-work-with-streaming-sources-as-classical-
RDBMS-tables
20"
streaming"
source"
{schema:{col1:…},…}"
col1:text" col2:int" col3:int" col4:text"
Streaming_query0"
…"
Streaming_queryn"

21. Streaming queries
o Streaming-queries-are-infinite-by-defini3on
• A-3me-window-is-defined-to-create-a-batch-like-view-of-the-rows-
ingested-by-the-system-in-that-period
• The-user-launches-queries-specifying-a-processing-3me-window
" Crossdata-provides-methods-to-list-and-stop-running-streaming-
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queries
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22. Streaming queries: windows syntax
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SELECT fieldGroup,avg(Field2)
FROM eph_table
WITH WINDOW 5 minutes
WHERE field1=100 AND field2>100
GROUP BY fieldGroup;

23. Joining batch and streaming
SELECT * FROM demo.temporal
WITH WINDOW 10 secs
INNER JOIN demo.users
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ON users.name = temporal.name;
SELECT * FROM
demo.temporal
WITH WINDOW 10 secs
"
SELECT *
FROM demo.users
"
INNER JOIN ON
users.name =
temporal.name
"
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24. Full text search
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25. Full text search with
o Clients-request-the-ability-to-perform-full-text-searches
o We-have-developed-an-integra3on-between-Lucene-and-
Cassandra
o C*-users-can-now-enjoy-all-Lucene-features:
• Full-text-searches,-range-queries,-fuzzy-queries….
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https://github.com/Stratio/stratio-cassandra

26. Stratio Lucene 2i
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C*"
node"
C*"
node"
Lucene"
index"
C*"
node"
Lucene"
index"
C*"
node"
Lucene"
index"
C*"
node"
Lucene"
index"
Lucene"
index"

27. Full text search queries
o With-Crossdata,-we-simplify:
• The-crea3on-syntax-
• The-query-syntax-using-the-match-operator
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CREATE&FULLTEXT&INDEX&ON&app.users(name,email);&
SELECT&*&FROM&app.users&&
where&email&MATCH&‘*@stratio.com’;&

28. & Stratio Crossdata
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29. Why Spark?
o Stra3o-Crossdata-uses-Spark-to-perform-nonRna3vely-supported-opera3ons
o Spark-brings-several-benefits-over-Hadoop-o
InRMemory-processing
o RDD-abstrac3on
o Simpler-API-o
Increased-flexibility-(e.g.,-not-need-for-iden3ty-mapping)
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30. What about Spark SQL?
o Different-approach-to-query-execu3on
• We-only-use-Spark-when-it-speedups-queries
" Na3ve-drivers-are-faster-for-simple-queries
" Spark-SQL-has-limited-RDD-sources
• Avoid-some-Spark-limita3ons
• Several-batch-and-streaming-contexts-in-a-single-JVM-SPARKR2243
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31. Query approach
SparkSQL"approach" Crossdata"approach"
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SparkSQL"
Spark"
Cassandra"
Spark" Na8ve"driver"
Cassandra"
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Stra8o"Crossdata"

32. Our Cassandra-Spark integration
o Project-started-in-June-2013
" With-the-objec3ve-of-providing-a-method-to-interact-with-
Cassandra-from-Spark
" Ini3al-approach-based-on-the-HadoopInputFormat-interface
" Current-version-uses-the-na3ve-Datastax-Java-driver
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https://github.com/Stratio/stratio-deep

33. Our Cassandra-Spark integration
o Benchmark-in-process-comparing-our-solu3on-with-the-
Datastax-Spark-driver
• Results-highly-influenced-by-the-split-size
• Ini3al-results-are-promising-for-Stra3o-Spark-Integra3on-using-
Datastax-default-values
• Group-by-–-up-to-40%-faster
• Join-–-up-to-17%-faster
• Stay-tuned-for-the-benchmark-publica3on!
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34. Spark vs Lucene 2i
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Time"
Spark"
Lucen"2i"
Records"returned"

35. ODBC
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36. Stratio Crossdata ODBC
o WellRknown-interface-standard-(for-BI-tools,-external-apps,-…)
o We-have-implemented-it-using-Simba-SDK
o ODBC-opens-the-full-poten3al-of-Stra3o-Crossdata-to-the-external-
world
o Currently-tested-with-Tableau,-Qlikview-and-MS-Excel
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One ODBC for all datastores!

37. The future
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38. The future
o Security
o Query-op3mizer-and-smart-query-planner
o Leverage-system-sta3s3cs
o Support-for-UDFs
o Become-an-Apache-project
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https://github.com/Stratio/stratio-meta

39. We are looking for an Apache Champion
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Can"you"
help"us?"

40. A wish list for Cassandra
o Ability-to-stop-running-queries
o Interac3ve-users-are-unpredictable
o Some-excep3on-paths-are-not-clear-or-defined-(e.g.,-secondary-indexes)
o Distribute-some-of-the-opera3ons-currently-performed-on-the-coordinator
• E.g.,-aggrega3ons-like-count(*)
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41. Stratio Crossdata
An efficient distributed datahub with batch and
streaming query capabilities
Daniel Higuero
Alvaro Agea
dhiguero@stratio.com
alvaro@stratio.com
#CassandraSummit-201441"