Dremio is a startup founded in 2015 by experts in big data and open source. It aims to provide a platform for interactive analysis across disparate data sources through a storage-agnostic and client-agnostic approach leveraging Apache Arrow for high performance in-memory columnar execution. Dremio uses Apache Drill as its query engine, allowing users to query data across different systems like HDFS, S3, MongoDB as if it was a single relational database through SQL. It has an extensible architecture that allows new data sources to be easily added via plugins.

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The Heterogeneous Data Lake
Tomer Shiran, Co-Founder & CEO at Dremio
tshiran@dremio.com | @tshiran
Hadoop Summit Europe 2016
April 13, 2016

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Company Background
Jacques Nadeau
Founder & CTO
• Recognized SQL & NoSQL expert
• Apache Arrow & Drill PMC Chair
• Quigo (AOL); Offermatica (ADBE);
aQuantive (MSFT)
Tomer Shiran
Founder & CEO
• MapR (VP Product); Microsoft; IBM
Research
• Apache Drill Founder
• Carnegie Mellon, Technion
Julien Le Dem
Architect
• Apache Parquet Founder
• Apache Pig PMC Member
• Twitter (Lead, Analytics Data
Pipeline); Yahoo! (Architect)
Top Silicon Valley VCs• Stealth data analytics startup
• Founded in 2015
• Led by experts in Big Data and open source

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The Rise of Heterogeneous Data Infrastructure
1980 2016

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Can’t Simply Connect a BI Tool…
• Too slow for interactive
analysis
• Manual process to map
data to relational model
• NoSQL data often
inconsistent & unclean
(eg, mixed types)
X

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Can’t Simply ETL the Data Into One System…
DWRDBMS RDBMS
RDBMS
RDBMS
RDBMSRDBMS
RDBMS RDBMS
• ETL between similar systems
• SQL -> SQL
• Flat -> flat
• Small & slowly evolving data
• Even then, ETL was hard!
DW
S3
HDFS
Solr S3
Oracle
Mongo
DB
SQL
Server
HBase
Elastic HDFS
• ETL between very different systems
• Search -> SQL
• Complex –> flat
• Big & rapidly evolving data
• ETL is now much harder…
The Relational World Today

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Towards a Heterogeneous Data Lake…
• A platform that enables data analysis across disparate data sources
• Storage-agnostic
– The data can live anywhere
– Join across disparate data sources
– Leverage the strengths of each data source
• There’s a reason it was chosen to store that data…
• Client-agnostic
– Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, Excel, R, …
• Scalability & performance
– It’s the era of Big Data…
• Simple & complex analysis

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Apache Arrow: Columnar In-Memory Execution
Arrow is backed by the lead developers of the major open source Big Data technologies
10-100x speedup
on modern CPUs
High-performance
sharing & interchange
High-speed Python
and R integration
Apache Arrow is the new standard for columnar in-memory execution technology
Data Sources:
Execution:
Data Science:
Parauet, HBase, Kudu, Phoenix, Hadoop, Cassandra
Drill, Spark, Impala, Storm
Pandas (Python), R, Ibis

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Arrow Enables High Performance Interchange
Pre-Arrow With Arrow
• Each system has its own internal
memory format
• 70-80% CPU wasted on serialization
and deserialization
• Similar functionality implemented in
multiple projects
• All systems utilize the same memory
format
• No overhead for cross-system
communication
• Projects can share functionality (eg,
Parquet-to-Arrow reader)

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Arrow is Designed for CPU Efficiency
Traditional
Memory Buffer
Arrow
Memory Buffer
• Cache locality
• Super-scalar & vectorized
operation
• Minimal structure overhead
• Constant value access
• Operate directly on
columnar compressed data

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Apache Drill: A Storage-Agnostic Query Engine
Tableau, Excel, Qlik, … Custom Applications
MongoDB*
CLI
HBase Elasticsearch* MapR
HDFS NAS Local Files Amazon S3
* Currently being developed/enhanced
RDBMS*
Azure Blob Storage
Apache Drill
Query any data source as if it’s a
relational database
Join data from multiple data sources
in a single query
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Omni-SQL (“SQL-on-Everything”)
Drill: Omni-SQL
Whereas the other engines we're discussing here create a relational
database environment on top of Hadoop, Drill instead enables a SQL
language interface to data in numerous formats, without requiring a formal
schema to be declared. This enables plug-and-play discovery over a huge
universe of data without prerequisites and preparation. So while Drill uses
SQL, and can connect to Hadoop, calling it SQL-on-Hadoop kind of misses
the point. A better name might be SQL-on-Everything, with very low setup
requirements.
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ARCHITECTURE

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Everything Starts With a Drillbit…
• High performance query executor
• In-memory columnar execution
• Directly interacts with data, acquiring
knowledge as it reads
• Built to leverage large amounts of memory
• Networked or not
• Exposes ODBC, JDBC, REST
• Built-in Web UI and CLI
• Extensible
Single process
(daemon or CLI)
drillbit

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Data Lake, More Like Data Maelstrom
Clustered Services Desktops
HDFS HDFS HDFS
HBase HBase HBase
HDFS HDFS HDFS
ES ES ES
MongoDB MongoDB MongoDB
Cloud Services
DynamoDB
Amazon S3
Linux
Mac
Windows
MongoDB Cluster
Elasticsearch Cluster
Hadoop Cluster
HBase Cluster

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Run Drill Co-Located with the Data, or Not
Clustered Services Desktops
HDFS HDFS HDFS
HBase HBase HBase
HDFS HDFS HDFS
ES ES ES
MongoDB MongoDB MongoDB
Cloud Services
DynamoDB
Amazon S3
Linux
Mac
Windows
drillbit drillbit drillbit
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drillbit

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Extensible Datastore Architecture
Storage Plugin API
MongoDB
Plugin
File Plugin
Execution Engine
Format Plugin APIFileSystem API
HDFS
S3
MapR-FS
Parquet
JSON
CSV
HBase
Plugin
Hive
Plugin
Chapter 2: Connecting to Datastores
Kudu
Plugin
Phoenix
Plugin

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QUERYING DATA

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Referencing a Table
SELECT * FROM production.website.users;
Chapter 3: The Universal Namespace
Datastore Workspace Table

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Run Your First Query
> SELECT name FROM mongo.yelp.business LIMIT 1;
+--------------------+
| name |
+--------------------+
| Eric Goldberg, MD |
+--------------------+
> SELECT name FROM dfs.root.`/opt/tutorial/yelp/business.json`
LIMIT 1;
+--------------------+
| name |
+--------------------+
| Eric Goldberg, MD |
+--------------------+

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Namespaces & Tables
Storage Plugin Type Workspace Table
mongo Database Collection
hive Database Table
hbase Namespace Table
file (HDFS cluster, S3, …) Directory File or directory
… … …
User defines these in the
datastore configuration

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> SELECT *
FROM dfs.root.`yelp/review.json` r,
mongo.yelp.business b
WHERE r.business_id = b.business_id;
Joining Across Datastores is Easy!
Alias to a specific file system (S3, HDFS, local, NAS)
Alias to a specific MongoDB cluster

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> SELECT b.name AS name, COUNT(*) AS reviews
FROM dfs.yelp.`review.json` r,
mongo.yelp.business b
WHERE r.business_id = b.business_id
GROUP BY b.business_id, b.name
ORDER BY reviews DESC
LIMIT 3;
+-------------------+----------+
| name | reviews |
+-------------------+----------+
| Mon Ami Gabi | 3695 |
| Earl of Sandwich | 3263 |
| Wicked Spoon | 3011 |
+-------------------+----------+
What Business Has the Most Reviews on Yelp?

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Native JSON Data Model
Access Arrays
SELECT categories[0]
{
"business_id": 123,
"name": "McDonalds",
"categories": ["restaurant", "fast food"],
"attributes": {
"family friendly": true,
"fast": true,
"romantic": false
}
}
Access Maps
WHERE t.attributes.romantic IS TRUE
Flatten Arrays
SELECT name, FLATTEN(categories)
Extract Keys
SELECT name, KVGEN(attributes)
Flatten Maps
SELECT name, FLATTEN(KVGEN(attributes))
Access Embedded JSON Blobs
SELECT d.address.state
FROM (SELECT CONVERT_FROM(t.data, JSON) d FROM t)

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Accessing Array Elements
> SELECT categories FROM business LIMIT 2;
+-------------------------------------------+
| categories |
+-------------------------------------------+
| ["American (Traditional)","Restaurants"] |
| ["Chinese","Restaurants"] |
+-------------------------------------------+
> SELECT categories[0] FROM business LIMIT 2;
+-------------------------+
| EXPR$0 |
+-------------------------+
| American (Traditional) |
| Chinese |
+-------------------------+

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FLATTEN
• FLATTEN converts single record with array field into multiple records
– One output record for each array element
• Non FLATTENed fields are repeated in each of the output records
> SELECT categories
FROM business LIMIT 2;
+-------------------------------------------+
| categories |
+-------------------------------------------+
| ["American (Traditional)","Restaurants"] |
| ["Chinese","Restaurants"] |
+-------------------------------------------+
> SELECT FLATTEN(categories)
FROM business LIMIT 4;
+-------------------------+
| EXPR$0 |
+-------------------------+
| American (Traditional) |
| Restaurants |
| Chinese |
| Restaurants |
+-------------------------+

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Non-FLATTENed Fields are Repeated
> SELECT name, categories FROM business LIMIT 2;
+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| name | categories |
+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Deforest Family Restaurant | ["American (Traditional)","Restaurants"] |
| Chang Jiang Chinese Kitchen | ["Chinese","Restaurants"] |
+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
> SELECT name, FLATTEN(categories) FROM business LIMIT 4;
+------------------------------+-------------------------+
| name | EXPR$1 |
+------------------------------+-------------------------+
| Deforest Family Restaurant | American (Traditional) |
| Deforest Family Restaurant | Restaurants |
| Chang Jiang Chinese Kitchen | Chinese |
| Chang Jiang Chinese Kitchen | Restaurants |
+------------------------------+-------------------------+

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ODBC and JDBC
• Drill includes standard
ODBC/JDBC drivers
– ODBC for native apps
– JDBC for Java apps
• User installs the driver
on the client
– The same machine as
the BI tool
• Driver communicates
with Drill cluster(s)
• Make sure driver and
cluster are compatible
versions
Drill Cluster
Drill JDBC Driver
TIBCO Spotfire
Client
Drill ODBC Driver
Tableau
Client (eg, Laptop)

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DEMO TIME!

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Thank You
• Learn about Apache Arrow
• Jacques Nadeau’s blog post: www.dremio.com/blog/Apache-Arrow/
• Apache Arrow website: arrow.apache.org
• Download Apache Drill: drill.apache.org
• Reach out to learn more about the Dremio private beta
• Email me: tshiran@dremio.com
• Sign up on the site: www.dremio.com

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APPENDIX

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Questions
• User trends based on yelping_since (Mongo)
• Top business categories, with coloring by state
• Which businesses are gross? (Elastic<->Mongo)
• Which of those had the most website clicks?
– distinct(business_id) on elastic, mongo.business,
hdfs.default.click