Data Consistency Model in Alluxio

When applications are only reading and writing through Alluxio, the Alluxio file system provides strong consistency. However, when clients are writing data across both Alluxio and under storage, the consistency depends on the Alluxio write type and under storage type. This article discusses what to expect in each scenario.

Accelerating and Scaling Big Data Analytics with Alluxio and Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory

International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that the global datasphere will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025. This trend becomes more and more complicated with the variety and velocity of data growth, and it continuously changes the ways how data is collected, stored, processed and analyzed. New analytics solutions from machine … Continued

What’s new in Alluxio 2.2

With this release comes the General Availability (GA) of Alluxio Structured Data Services (SDS), the subsystem of Alluxio responsible for managing and transforming structured data, such as databases, tables, and partitions.

Data Orchestration Summit Recap and Highlights!

We are delighted by the success of the inaugural Data Orchestration Summit on Nov. 7, 2019! Organized by Alluxio, this one-day event was sold out with nearly 400 attendees! Data engineers, cloud engineers, data scientists joined the talks of 24 industry leaders from all over the globe to share their experiences building cloud-native data and … Continued

Improving Spark Memory Resource with Off-Heap In-Memory Storage

In the previous tutorial ”Getting Started with Spark Caching using Alluxio in 5 Minutes”, we demonstrated how to get started with Spark and Alluxio. To share more thoughts and experiments on how Alluxio enhances Spark workloads, this article focuses on how Alluxio helps to optimize the memory utilization of Spark applications.  For users who are … Continued