HBaseCon 2012 | HBase and HDFS: Past, Present, Future - Todd Lipcon, Cloudera
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The document discusses the evolution of HBase and HDFS from Hadoop pre-1.0 to future versions, highlighting improvements in reliability, performance, and feature sets. It details historical milestones, key developments in Hadoop 1.x and 2.x, and future enhancements aimed at better supporting HBase use cases. The author emphasizes that HBase has gained significant advancements, leading to enhanced performance and availability in the Hadoop ecosystem.
HBaseCon 2012 | HBase and HDFS: Past, Present, Future - Todd Lipcon, Cloudera
- 1. HBase and HDFS: Past, Present, Future Todd Lipcon [email protected] Twitter: @tlipcon #hbase IRC: tlipcon May 22, 2012
- 2. Intro / who am I? Been working on data stuff for a few years HBase, HDFS, MR committer Cloudera engineer since March ’09 (a) My posts to hbase-dev (b) My posts to (core|hdfs|mapreduce)-dev A You know I’m an engineer since my slides are ugly and written in LTEX
- 3. Framework for discussion Time periods Past (Hadoop pre-1.0) Present (Hadoop 1.x, 2.0) Future (Hadoop 2.x and later) Categories Reliability/Availability Performance Feature set
- 4. HDFS and HBase History - 2006 Author: Douglass Cutting <[email protected]> Date: Fri Jan 27 22:19:42 2006 +0000 Create hadoop sub-project.
- 5. HDFS and HBase History - 2007 Author: Douglass Cutting <[email protected]> Date: Tue Apr 3 20:34:28 2007 +0000 HADOOP-1045. Add contrib/hbase, a BigTable-like online database.
- 6. HDFS and HBase History - 2008 Author: Jim Kellerman <[email protected]> Date: Tue Feb 5 02:36:26 2008 +0000 2008/02/04 HBase is now a subproject of Hadoop. The first HBase release as a subproject will be release 0.1.0 which will be equivalent to the version of HBase included in Hadoop 0.16.0...
- 7. HDFS and HBase History - Early 2010 HBase has been around for 3 years, But HDFS still acts like MapReduce is the only important client! § People have accused HDFS of being like a molasses train: high throughput but not so fast
- 8. HDFS and HBase History - 2010 HBase becomes a top-level project Facebook chooses HBase for Messages product Jump from HBase 0.20 to HBase 0.89 and 0.90 First CDH3 betas include HBase HDFS community starts to work on features for HBase. Infamous hadoop-0.20-append branch
- 9. What did we get done? And where are we going?
- 10. Reliability in the past: Hadoop 1.0 Pre-1.0, if the DN crashed, HBase would lose its WALs (and your beloved data). 1.0 integrated hadoop-0.20-append branch into a main-line release True durability support for HBase We have a fighting chance at metadata reliability! Numerous bug fixes for write pipeline recovery and other error paths HBase is not nearly so forgiving as MapReduce! “Single-writer” fault tolerance vs “job-level” fault tolerance
- 11. Reliability in the past: Hadoop 1.0 Pre-1.0: if any disk failed, entire DN would go offline Problematic for HBase: local RS would lose all locality! 1.0: per-disk failure detection in DN (HDFS-457) Allows HBase to lose a disk without losing all locality Tip: Configure dfs.datanode.failed.volumes.tolerated = 1
- 12. Reliability today: Hadoop 2.0 Integrates Highly Available HDFS Active-standby hot failover removes SPOF Transparent to clients: no HBase changes necessary Tested extensively under HBase read/write workloads Coupled with HBase master failover, no more HBase SPOF!
- 13. HDFS HA
- 14. Reliability in the future: HA in 2.x Remove dependency on NFS (HDFS-3077) Quorum-commit protocol for NameNode edit logs Similar to ZAB/Multi-Paxos Automatic failover for HA NameNodes (HDFS-3042) ZooKeeper-based master election, just like HBase Merge to trunk should be this week.
- 15. Other reliability work for HDFS 2.x 2.0: current hflush() API only guarantees data is replicated to three machines – not fully on disk. A cluster-wide power outage can lose data. Upcoming in 2.x: Support for hsync() (HDFS-744, HBASE-5954) Calls fsync() for all replicas of the WAL Full durability of edits, even with full cluster power outages
- 17. HDFS wire compatibility in Hadoop 2.0 In 1.0: HDFS client version must match server version closely. How many of you have manually copied HDFS client jars? Client-server compatibility in 2.0: Protobuf-based RPC Easier HBase installs: no more futzing with jars Separate HBase upgrades from HDFS upgrades Intra-cluster server compatibility in the works Allow for rolling upgrade without downtime
- 18. Performance: Hadoop 1.0 Pre-1.0: even for reads from local machine, client connects to DN via TCP 1.0: Short-circuit local reads Obtains direct access to underlying local block file, then uses regular FileInputStream access. 2x speedup for random reads Configure dfs.client.read.shortcircuit = true Configure dfs.block.local-path-access.user = hbase Configure dfs.datanode.data.dir.perm = 755 Currently does not support security §
- 19. Performance: Hadoop 2.0 Pre-2.0: Up to 50% CPU spent verifying CRC 2.0: Native checksums using SSE4.2 crc32 asm (HDFS-2080) 2.5x speedup reading from buffer cache Now only 15% CPU overhead to checksumming Pre-2.0: re-establishes TCP connection to DN for each seek 2.0: Rewritten BlockReader, keepalive to DN (HDFS-941) 40% improvement on random read for HBase 2-2.5x in micro-benchmarks Total improvement vs 0.20.2: 3.4x!
- 20. Performance: Hadoop 2.x Currently: lots of CPU spent copying data in memory “Direct-read” API: read directly into user-provided DirectByteBuffers (HDFS-2834) Another ˜2x improvement to sequential throughput reading from cache Opportunity to avoid two more buffer copies reading compressed data (HADOOP-8148) Codec APIs still in progress, needs integration into HBase
- 21. Performance: Hadoop 2.x True “zero-copy read” support (HDFS-3051) New API would allow direct access to mmaped block files No syscall or JNI overhead for reads Initial benchmarks indicate at least ˜30% gain. Some open questions around best safe implementation
- 24. Performance: why emphasize CPU? Machines with lots of RAM now inexpensive (48-96GB common) Want to use that to improve cache hit ratios. Unfortunately, 50GB+ Java heaps still impractical (GC pauses too long) Allocate the extra RAM to the buffer cache OS caches compressed data: another win! CPU overhead reading from buffer cache becomes limiting factor for read workloads
- 25. What’s up next in 2.x? HDFS Hard-links (HDFS-3370) Will allow for HBase to clone/snapshot tables efficiently! Improves HBase table-scoped backup story HDFS Snapshots (HDFS-2802) HBase-wide snapshot support for point-in-time recovery Enables consistent backups copied off-site for DR
- 26. What’s up next in 2.x? Improved block placement policies (HDFS-1094) Fundamental tradeoff between probability of data unvailability and the amount of data that becomes unavailable Current scheme: if any 3 nodes not on the same rack die, some very small amount of data is unavailable Proposed scheme: lessen chances of unavailability, but if a certain three nodes die, a larger amount is unavailable For many HBase applications: any single lost block halts whole operation. Prefer to minimize probability.
- 27. What’s up next in 2.x? HBase-specific block placement hints (HBASE-4755) Assign each region a set of three RS (primary and two backups) Place underlying data blocks on these three DNs Could then fail-over and load-balance without losing any locality!
- 28. Summary Hadoop 1.0 Hadoop 2.0 Hadoop 2.x Availability - DN volume - NameNode HA - HA without NAS failure isolation - Wire Compat - Rolling upgrade Performance - Short-circuit - Native CRC - Direct-read API reads - DN Keepalive - Zero-copy API - Direct codec API Features - durable hflush() - hsync() - Snapshots - Hard links - HBase-aware block placement
- 29. Summary HBase is no longer a second-class citizen. We’ve come a long way since Hadoop 0.20.2 in performance, reliability, and availability. New features coming in the 2.x line specifically to benefit HBase use cases Hadoop 2.0 features available today via CDH4 beta. Several Cloudera customers already using CDH4b2 with HBase with great success. Official Hadoop 2.0 release and CDH4 GA coming soon.
- 30. Questions? [email protected] Twitter: @tlipcon #hbase IRC: tlipcon P.S. we’re hiring!