On our way to build a central repository that stores consolidated audit and log data generated by the databases, we needed to develop several components that will help us to achieve such purpose. In this case, we will be talking about two custom sources for Apache Flume that have been developed in order to collect data from databases tables and (alert & listener) log files. Both these sources are implemented in a generic way, without any project dependency, so they can be used for any other project and the code is publicly accessible.

Introduction

HDFS is part of the core Hadoop ecosystem and serves as a storage layer for the Hadoop computational frameworks like Spark, MapReduce. Like other distributed file systems, HDFS is based on an architecture where namespace is decoupled from the data. The namespace contains the file system metadata which is maintained by dedicated server called namenode and the data itself resides on other servers called datanodes.

This blogpost is about dumping HDFS metadata into Impala/Hive table for examination and offline analysis using SQL semantics

Introduction

Alluxio is an open source memory speed virtual distributed storage system. A brief overview of Alluxio has been covered in a previous blog. This post will cover one of the most powerful features of Alluxio, which is its tiered storage capabilities.

Introduction

Alluxio refers to itself as an "Open Source Memory Speed Virtual Distributed Storage" platform. It sits between the storage and processing framework layers in the distributed computing ecosystem and claims to heavily improve performance when multiple jobs are reading/writing from/to the same data. This post will cover some of the basic features of Alluxio and will compare its performance for accessing data against caching in Spark.