Accelerating Data Computation on Ceph Objects using Alluxio
December 13, 2020
By 
Leonardo Militano

In most of the distributed storage systems, the data nodes are decoupled from compute nodes. This is motivated by an improved cost efficiency, storage utilization and a mutually independent scalability of computation and storage. While this consideration is indisputable, several situations exist where moving computation close to the data brings important benefits. Whenever the stored data is to be processed for analytics purposes, all the data needs to be repeatedly moved from the storage to the compute cluster, which leads to reduced performance.

In this talk, we will present how using Alluxio computation and storage ecosystems can better interact benefiting of the “bringing the data close to the code” approach. Moving away from the complete disaggregation of computation and storage, data locality can enhance the computation performance. During this talk, we will present our observations and testing results that will show important enhancements in accelerating Spark Data Analytics on Ceph Objects Storage using Alluxio.

In most of the distributed storage systems, the data nodes are decoupled from compute nodes. This is motivated by an improved cost efficiency, storage utilization and a mutually independent scalability of computation and storage. While this consideration is indisputable, several situations exist where moving computation close to the data brings important benefits. Whenever the stored data is to be processed for analytics purposes, all the data needs to be repeatedly moved from the storage to the compute cluster, which leads to reduced performance.

In this talk, we will present how using Alluxio computation and storage ecosystems can better interact benefiting of the “bringing the data close to the code” approach. Moving away from the complete disaggregation of computation and storage, data locality can enhance the computation performance. During this talk, we will present our observations and testing results that will show important enhancements in accelerating Spark Data Analytics on Ceph Objects Storage using Alluxio.

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