[BIGTOP-1089] BigPetStore: A polyglot big data processing blueprint

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: blueprints
• Assignee: jay vyas
• Reporter: jay vyas
• Created: 24/Sep/13 16:40
• Updated: 25/Apr/14 02:40
• Resolved: 16/Apr/14 00:47

Description

The need for templates for processing big data pipelines is obvious - and also - given the increasing amount of overlap across different big data and nosql projects, it will provide a ground truth in the future for comparing the behaviour and approach of different tools to solve a common, easily comprehended problem.

This ticket formalizes the conversation in mailing list archives regarding the BigPetStore proposal.

At the moment, (with the exception of word count), there are very few examples of bigdata problems that have been solved by a variety of different technologies. And, even with wordcount, there arent alot of templates which can be customized for applications.

Comparatively: Other application developer communities (i.e.the Rails folks, those using maven archetypes, etc.. ) have a plethora of template applications which can be used to kickstart their applications and use cases.

This big pet store JIRA thus aims to do the following:

0) Curate a single, central, standard input data set . (modified: generating a large input data set on the fly).

1) Define a big data processing pipeline (using the pet store theme - except morphing it to be analytics rather than transaction oriented), and implement basic aggregations in hive, pig, etc...

2) Sink the results of 2 into some kind of NoSQL store or search engine.

Some implementation details – open to change these, please comment/review – .

• initial data source will be raw text or (better yet) some kind of automatically generated data.
• the source will initially go in bigtop/blueprints
• the application sources can be in any modern JVM language (java,scala,groovy,clojure), since bigtop supports scala, java, groovy natively already and clojure is easy to support with the right jars.
• each "job" will be named according to the corresponding DAG of the big data pipeline .
• all jobs should (not sure if requirement?) be controlled by a global program (maybe oozie?) which runs the tasks in order, and can easily be customized to use different tools at different stages.
• for now, all outputs will be to files: so that users don't require servers to run the app.
• final data sinks will be into a highly available transaction oriented store (solr/hbase/...)

This ticket will be completed once a first iteration of BigPetStore is complete using 3 ecosystem components, along with a depiction of the pipeline which can be used for development.

I've assigned this to myself I hope thats okay? Seems like at the moment im the only one working on it.

Issue Links

• is related to: BIGTOP-1212 Pick or build a framework for building fake data sets
• relates to: BIGTOP-1212 Pick or build a framework for building fake data sets