Testing Methodology Decision support workload is a typical workload that models multiple aspects of a decision support system, including queries and data maintenance. We selected 54 queries that represent a typical SQL query behavior in Hadoop for the test. The tests include three different configurations: Without Alluxio, Alluxio on PMem and Alluxio on DRAM. The … Continued
This article describes how Alluxio can accelerate the training of deep learning models in a hybrid cloud environment when using Intel’s Analytics Zoo open source platform, powered by oneAPI. Details on the new architecture and workflow, as well as Alluxio’s performance benefits and benchmarks results will be discussed.
Are you using SQL engines, such as Presto, to query existing Hive data warehouse and experiencing challenges including overloaded Hive Metastore with slow and unpredictable access, unoptimized data formats and layouts such as too many small files, or lack of influence over the existing Hive system and other Hive applications?
This article goes through a simple example to illustrate how Structured Data Management available in the latest Alluxio 2.2.0 release to help SQL and structured data workloads.
This article introduces Structured Data Management available in the latest Alluxio 2.2.0 release, a new effort to provide further benefits to SQL and structured data workloads using Alluxio.
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.
Kubernetes, Alluxio and the disaggregated analytics stack TL;DR: First the news – Alluxio support for K8s Helm charts now available! K8s is a certified environment for Alluxio. Now the take away- Alluxio brings back data locality for the disaggregated analytics stack in K8s. How? Read on. There’s no arguing the rise of containers in real-world … Continued
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
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