Search Analytics Business Value & NoSQL Backend
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This document discusses search analytics and Sematext's search analytics product. It summarizes Sematext's search analytics software, which collects search data using Flume and stores it in HBase. It then generates reports to help optimize search experiences. The software provides insights to help search providers and satisfies the needs of search users.
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Search Analytics Business Value & NoSQL Backend
- 1. Search Analytics Business Value & NoSQL Backend Otis Gospodnetić – Sematext International @otisg ◦ @sematext ◦ sematext.com sematext.com/search-analytics
- 2. About Otis Gospodnetić • ASF Member: Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout • Author: Lucene in Action 1 & 2 • Entrepreneur: Sematext, Simpy 2 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 3. Sematext Metrics ● 100% organic: no GMO, no VC ● 4 years old ● < 10 people ● 7 countries ● 3 timezones ● 2 continents ● > 100 customers 3 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 4. About Sematext Products & Services Consulting, Development, Tech Support: ● Search (Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch...) ● Big Data (Hadoop, HBase, Voldemort...) ● Web Crawling (Nutch, Droids) ● Machine Learning (Mahout) 4 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 5. Agenda ● What is Search Analytics and why it matters ● Example reports and their value ● What we built, why, and how 5 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 6. Communication ● twitter.com/sematext ● twitter.com/otisg ● hash tags: #stsa or #stanalytics ● http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html ● Raise your hand! ● [email protected] 6 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 7. The Compass Search logs are your Map Search Analytics is your Compass 7 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 8. High Level Why search users search experience search providers 8 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 9. High Level Why This search sucks! It takes 17 tries to find anything here! F!?@#$%^&?!? search users search experience search providers Cool, the latest search tweaks made our site really sticky! Awesome! 9 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 10. Don't Be Like This Dude 10 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 11. Got Clue? Performance Monitoring Tuning Search Analytics UI Quality Assurance 11 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 12. More Concrete Why ● Measure and monitor everything. Introspection. ● Supports (re)design, navigation choices ● Helps with content acquisition & enhancement ● Improve search experience ● Mula 12 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 13. The Moment of Truth Question for the audience #1 What do you use for Search Analytics? a) Home grown stuff b) Google Analytics c) Omniture d) Webtrends e) Other f ) Nothing 13 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 14. Search Analytics Outline ● Collect: queries & clicks & interactions & ... ● Analyze: actions / xactions / conversions ● Output: reports – over time ● Output++: feedback loop remember this ● The means, not the goal ● Ongoing, not one-off 14 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 15. Search vs. Web Analytics ● User intent and information needs vs. inferring ● Hand in hand ● Ideally you can relate data from both or even unify it 15 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 16. Example Core Reports ● Rate & Volume, Latency (mean, avg, 90%) ● Click Through Rate, Mean Reciprocal Rank ● Top Queries by count, clicks, 0 hits... ● Query Trending ● Top Seen Docs, Top Clicked Docs (msft) ● Page & Click Depth ● Facet & Sort Usage ● ... 16 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 17. More Reports in More Detail ● See Search Analytics What? Why? How? http://blog.sematext.com/tag/analytics/ 17 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 18. Part Dos Switching gears... Juno digs NoSQL 18 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 19. What We've Built ● Search Analytics SaaS ● Numerous reports (e.g. query volume, rate, latency, term frequencies / comparisons, hit buckets, search origins, etc.) ● Trending over time ● Comparisons of time periods ● Top N reports ● Filter, slice and dice 19 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 20. Who Needs a Compass? ● We need it ● search-hadoop.com & search-lucene.com ● Our customers need it! ● You? 20 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 21. Sematext Search Analytics 21 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 22. Big Dreams ● SaaS ● Multitenant ● Large Scale – Massive Data ● Cloud 22 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 23. Storage Choices ● RDBMS: MySQL, PostgreSQL ● HDFS ● Hive ● HBase ● Cassandra 23 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 24. SaaS vs. In-House Question for the audience #2 SaaS vs in-house Search Analytics? a) SaaS b) in-house 24 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 25. Sematext Search Analytics 25 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 26. Sematext Search Analytics 26 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 27. Sematext Search Analytics 27 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 28. Sematext Search Analytics 28 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 29. Data Flow ● See Search Analytics with Flume and HBase http://blog.sematext.com/2010/10/16/search-analytics-hadoop-world-flume-hbase/ 29 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 30. Data Collection ● See Search Analytics with Flume and HBase http://blog.sematext.com/2010/10/16/search-analytics-hadoop-world-flume-hbase/ 30 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 31. Core Tech ● JavaScript Beacons ● Metric Capture Web App aka Receiver ● Flume Agents, Collectors, Sinks ● HBase ● MapReduce Aggregations ● Search Analytics Reporting Web App 31 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 32. What is Flume ● Distributed data/log collection service ● Scalable, configurable, extensible ● Centrally manageable, open source ● Agents get data from app, Collectors save it ● Abstractions: Source → Decorator(s) → Sink 32 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 33. What is HBase ● Scalable, reliable, distributed, column-oriented DB ● On top of HDFS ● MapReducable 33 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 34. Data Flow, Detailed 34 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 35. Why Flume ● Reliable delivery ● e.g. queue msgs locally if destination unreachable ● Easy, centralized management via Web UI or console ● Good community, good progress, now @ASF ● But: more complex, more moving parts ● On Flume: slideshare.net/cloudera/inside-flume ● Alternatives: Kafka, Scribe... 35 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 36. Why HBase ● Scalable raw & aggregate data storage ● MapReduce data input ● Fast scans for time ranges, fast key lookups ● Easy storage and compute power expansion ● Good looking roadmap, community, progress 36 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 37. Open Sourcing ● 2 open-source projects: github.com/sematext/HBaseWD github.com/sematext/HBaseHUT ● See sematext.com/open-source/index.html ● Patches for Flume and HBase blog.sematext.com/tag/flume/ 37 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 38. Challenges ● Data size. Solutions: ● Compression (4-5x smaller with lzo) ● Data pruning (variable levels) ● Query string distribution: very long-tail ● Lots of data to process, update, aggregate ● Young tools: Flume, HBase ● Poor IO on EC2 ● Hadoop distributions 38 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 39. Output++ ● AutoComplete - $MM improvement ● Better DYM Spellchecker ● Related Searches ● Recommendations ● Relevance Feedback ● ... 39 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 40. Closing the Loop search users search experience search providers 40 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 41. Resource Search Analytics for Your Site Louis Rosenfeld http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/searchanalytics/ 41 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 42. We're Hiring Dig Search? Dig Analytics? Dig Big Data? Dig Performance? Dig working with and in open-source? We're hiring world-wide! http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html 42 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.
- 43. Contact sematext.com blog.sematext.com @sematext @otisg [email protected] Want SA? Grab me or go to: sematext.com/search-analytics Hash tags: #stsa or #stanalytics 43 Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved.