A Comparative Performance
Evaluation of Flink
Dongwon Kim
POSTECH
About Me
• Postdoctoral researcher @ POSTECH
• Research interest
• Design and implementation of distributed systems
• Performance optimization of big data processing engines
• Doctoral thesis
• MR2: Fault Tolerant MapReduce with the Push Model
• Personal blog
• http://eastcirclek.blogspot.kr
• Why I’m here 
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Outline
• TeraSort for various engines
• Experimental setup
• Results & analysis
• What else for better performance?
• Conclusion
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TeraSort
• Hadoop MapReduce program for the annual terabyte sort competition
• TeraSort is essentially distributed sort (DS)
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Typical DS phases :
4Total order
• Included in Hadoop distributions
• with TeraGen & TeraValidate
• Identity map & reduce functions
• Range partitioner built on sampling
• To guarantee a total order & to prevent partition skew
• Sampling to compute boundary points within few seconds
TeraSort for MapReduce
Reduce taskMap task
read shuffling sortsort reducemap write
read shufflinglocal sort writelocal sortDS phases :
reducemap
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Record range
…
Partition 1 Partition 2 Partition r
boundary points
• Tez can execute TeraSort for MapReduce w/o any modification
• mapreduce.framework.name = yarn-tez
• Tez DAG plan of TeraSort for MapReduce
TeraSort for Tez
finalreduce vertex
initialmap vertex
Map task
read sortmap
Reduce task
shuffling sort reduce write
input data
output data
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TeraSort for Spark & Flink
• My source code in GitHub:
• https://github.com/eastcirclek/terasort
• Sampling-based range partitioner from TeraSort for MapReduce
• Visit my personal blog for a detailed explanation
• http://eastcirclek.blogspot.kr
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RDD1 RDD2
• Code
• Two RDDs
TeraSort for Spark
Stage 1Stage 0
Shuffle-Map Task
(for newAPIHadoopFile)
read sort
Result Task
(for repartitionAndSortWithinPartitions)
shuffling sort write
read shufflinglocal sort writelocal sort
Create a new RDD to read from HDFS
# partitions = # blocks
Repartition the parent RDD
based on the user-specified partitioner
Write output to HDFS
DS phases :
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Pipeline
• Code
• Pipelines consisting of four operators
TeraSort for Flink
read shuffling writelocal sort
Create a dataset to read tuples
from HDFS
partition tuples
Sort tuples of each partition
DataSource Partition SortPartition DataSink
local sort
No map-side sorting
due to pipelined execution
Write output to HDFS
DS phases :
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Importance of TeraSort
• Suitable for measuring the pure performance of big data engines
• No data transformation (like map, filter) with user-defined logic
• Basic facilities of each engine are used
• “Winning the sort benchmark” is a great means of PR
10
Outline
• TeraSort for various engines
• Experimental setup
• Machine specification
• Node configuration
• Results & analysis
• What else for better performance?
• Conclusion
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Machine specification (42 identical machines)
DELL PowerEdge R610
CPU
Two X5650 processors
(Total 12 cores)
Memory
Total 24Gb
Disk
6 disks * 500GB/disk
Network
10 Gigabit Ethernet
My machine Spark team
Processor
Intel Xeon X5650
(Q1, 2010)
Intel Xeon E5-2670
(Q1, 2012)
Cores 6 * 2 processors 8 * 4 processors
Memory 24GB 244GB
Disks 6 HDD's 8 SSD's
Results can be different
in newer machines
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24GB on each node
Node configuration
Total 2 GB
for daemons
13 GB
Tez-0.7.0
NodeManager (1 GB)
ShuffleService
MapTask (1GB)
DataNode (1 GB)
MapTask (1GB)
ReduceTask (1GB)
ReduceTask (1GB)
MapTask (1GB)
MapTask (1GB)
MapTask (1GB)
…
MapReduce-2.7.1
NodeManager (1 GB)
ShuffleService
DataNode (1 GB)
MapTask (1GB)
MapTask (1GB)
ReduceTask (1GB)
ReduceTask (1GB)
MapTask (1GB)
MapTask (1GB)
MapTask (1GB)
…
12 GB
Flink
Spark
Spark-1.5.1
NodeManager (1 GB)
Executor (12GB)
Internal
memory layout
Various managers
DataNode (1 GB)
Task slot 1
Task slot 2
Task slot 12
...
Thread pool
Flink-0.9.1
NodeManager (1 GB)
TaskManager (12GB)
DataNode (1 GB)
Internal
memory layout
Various managers
Task slot 1
Task slot 2
Task slot 12
...
Task threads
Tez
MapReduce
ReduceTask (1GB)ReduceTask (1GB)
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12 simultaneous tasks
at most
Driver (1GB) JobManager (1GB)
Outline
• TeraSort for various engines
• Experimental setup
• Results & analysis
• Flink is faster than other engines due to its pipelined execution
• What else for better performance?
• Conclusion
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How to read a swimlane graph & throughput graphs
Tasks
Time since job starts (seconds)
2nd stage
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
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Cluster network throughput
Cluster disk throughput
In
Out
Disk read
Disk
Write
- 6 waves of 1st stage tasks
- 1 wave of 2nd stage tasks
- Two stages are hardly overlapped
1st stage
2nd stage
1st stage
2nd stage
No network traffic during 1st stage
Each line : duration of each task
Different patterns for different stages
Result of sorting 80GB/node (3.2TB)
1480 sec
1st stage
1st stage
1st stage
2nd stage
2157 sec
2nd stage
2171 sec
1 DataSource
2 Partition
3 SortPartition
4 DataSink
• Flink is the fastest due to its pipelined execution
• Tez and Spark do not overlap 1st and 2nd stages
• MapReduce is slow despite overlapping stages
MapReduce
in Hadoop-2.7.1
Tez-0.7.0
Spark-1.5.1
Flink-0.9.1
2nd stage
1887 sec
2157
1887
2171
1480
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
MapReduce
in Hadoop-2.7.1
Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1
Time(seconds)
16* Map output compression turned on for Spark and Tez
* *
Tez and Spark do not overlap 1st and 2nd stages
Cluster network
throughput
Cluster disk throughput
In
Out
Disk read
Cluster network
throughput
Cluster disk throughput
In
Out
Disk read
Disk
write
Disk
write
Disk read
Disk write
Out
In
(1) 2nd stage starts
(2)
Output of 1st stage is sent
(1) 2nd stage starts
(2)
Output of 1st stage is sent
(1)
Network traffic
occurs from start
Cluster network
throughput
(2)
Write to HDFS occurs
right after shuffling is done
1 DataSource
2 Partition
3 SortPartition
4 DataSink
idle idle
(3)
Disk write to HDFS occurs
after shuffling is done
(3)
Disk write to HDFS occurs
after shuffling is done
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Tez does not overlap 1st and 2nd stages
• Tez has parameters to control the degree of overlap
• tez.shuffle-vertex-manager.min-src-fraction : 0.2
• tez.shuffle-vertex-manager.max-src-fraction : 0.4
• However, 2nd stage is scheduled early but launched late
scheduled launched
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Spark does not overlap 1st and 2nd stages
• Spark cannot execute multiple stages simultaneously
• also mentioned in the following VLDB paper (2015)
Spark doesn’t support the overlap
between shuffle write and read stages.
…
Spark may want to support this overlap
in the future to improve performance.
Experimental results of this paper
- Spark is faster than MapReduce for WordCount, K-means, PageRank.
- MapReduce is faster than Spark for Sort.
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MapReduce is slow despite overlapping stages
• mapreduce.job.reduce.slowstart.completedMaps : [0.0, 1.0]
• Wang’s attempt to overlap spark stages
0.05
(overlapping, default)
0.95
(no overlapping)
2157 sec
10%
improvement
20
Wang proposes to overlap stages
to achieve better utilization
10%???
Why Spark & MapReduce
improve just 10%?
2385 sec
2nd stage
1st stage
Disk
Data transfer between tasks of different stages
Output file
P1 P2 Pn
Shuffle server
…
Consumer
Task 1
Consumer
Task 2
Consumer
Task n
P1
…
P2
Pn
Traditional pull model
- Used in MapReduce, Spark, Tez
- Extra disk access & simultaneous disk access
- Shuffling affects the performance of producers
Producer
Task
(1)
Write output
to disk
(2)
Request P1
(3)
Send P1
Pipelined data transfer
- Used in Flink
- Data transfer from memory to memory
- Flink causes fewer disk access during shuffling
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Leads to only 10% improvement
Flink causes fewer disk access during shuffling
Map
Reduce
Flink diff.
Total disk write
(TB)
9.9 6.5 3.4
Total disk read
(TB)
8.1 6.9 1.2
Difference comes
from shuffling
Shuffled data are sometimes
read from page cache
Cluster disk throughput
Disk read
Disk write
Disk read
Disk write
Cluster disk throughput
FlinkMapReduce
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Total amount of disk read/write
equals to
the area of blue/green region
Result of TeraSort with various data sizes
node data size
(GB)
Time (seconds)
Flink Spark MapReduce Tez
10 157 387 259 277
20 350 652 555 729
40 741 1135 1085 1709
80 1480 2171 2157 1887
160 3127 4927 4796 3950
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100
1000
10000
10 20 40 80 160
Time(seconds)
node data size (GB)
Flink Spark MapReduce Tez
What we’ve seen
Log scale
* Map output compression turned on for Spark and Tez
Result of HashJoin
• 10 slave nodes
• org.apache.tez.examples.JoinDataGen
• Small dataset : 256MB
• Large dataset : 240GB (24GB/node)
• Result :
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Visit my blog

Flink is
~2x faster than Tez
~4x faster than Spark
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200
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1000
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1600
1800
Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1
Time(seconds)
* No map output compression for both Spark and Tez unlike in TeraSort
Result of HashJoin with swimlane & throughput graphs
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Idle
1 DataSource
2 DataSource
3 Join
4 DataSink
Idle
Cluster network throughput
Cluster disk throughput
In
Out
Disk
read
Disk
write
Disk read
Disk write
In
Out
In
Out
Disk read
Disk
write
Cluster network throughput
Cluster disk throughput
0.24 TB
0.41 TB
0.60 TB 0.84 TB
0.68 TB
0.74 TB
Overlap
2nd
3rd
Flink’s shortcoming
• No support for map output compression
• Small data blocks are pipelined between operators
• Job-level fault tolerance
• Shuffle data are not materialized
• Low disk throughput during the post-shuffling phase
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Low disk throughput during the post-shuffling phase
• Possible reason : sorting records from small files
• Concurrent disk access to small files  too many disk seeks
 low disk throughput
• Other engines merge records from larger files than Flink
• “Eager pipelining moves some of the sorting work from the mapper to the
reducer”
• from MapReduce online (NSDI 2010)
Flink Tez MapReduce
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Outline
• TeraSort for various engines
• Experimental setup
• Results & analysis
• What else for better performance?
• Conclusion
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MR2 – another MapReduce engine
• PhD thesis
• MR2: Fault Tolerant MapReduce with the Push Model
• developed for 3 years
• Provide the user interface of Hadoop MapReduce
• No DAG support
• No in-memory computation
• No iterative-computation
• Characteristics
• Push model + Fault tolerance
• Techniques to boost up HDD throughput
• Prefetching for mappers
• Preloading for reducers
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MR2 pipeline
• 7 types of components with memory buffers
1. Mappers & reducers : to apply user-defined functions
2. Prefetcher & preloader : to eliminate concurrent disk access
3. Sender & reducer & merger : to implement MR2’s push model
• Various buffers : to pass data between components w/o disk IOs
• Minimum disk access (2 disk reads & 2 disk writes)
• +1 disk write for fault tolerance
W1 R2 W2R1
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1 12 23 3 3
W3
Prefetcher & Mappers
• Prefetcher loads data for multiple mappers
• Mappers do not read input from disks
<MR2><Hadoop MapReduce>
Mapper1 processing Blk1
Mapper2 processing Blk2
Time
Disk
throughput
CPU
utilization
2 mappers
on a node
Blk1
Time
Prefetcher Blk2 Blk3
Blk1
2
Blk1
1
Blk2
2
Blk2
1
Blk3
2
Blk3
1
Blk4
Blk4
2
Blk4
1
Disk
throughput
CPU
utilization
2 mappers
on a node
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Push-model in MR2
• Node-to-node network connection for pushing data
• To reduce # network connections
• Data transfer from memory buffer
• Mappers stores spills in send buffer
• Spills are pushed to reducer sides by sender
• Fault tolerance (can be turned on/off)
• Input ranges of each spill are known to master for reproduce
• For fast recovery
• store spills on disk for fast recovery (extra disk write)
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similar to Flink’s pipelined execution
MR2 does local sorting
before pushing data
similar to Spark
Receiver’s managed memory
Receiver & merger & preloader & reducer
• Merger produces a file from different partition data
• sorts each partition data
• and then does interleaving
• Preloader preloads each group into reduce buffer
• Reducers do not read data directly from disks
• MR2 can eliminate concurrent disk reads from reducers thanks to Preloader
P1 P2 P3 P4
P1 P2 P3 P4
P1 P2 P3 P4
… …
Preloader loads each group
(1 disk access for 4 partitions)
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Result of sorting 80GB/node (3.2TB) with MR2
MapReduce
in Hadoop-2.7.1
Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1 MR2
Time (sec) 2157 1887 2171 1480 890
MR2 speedup
over other engines
2.42 2.12 2.44 1.66 -
2157
1887
2171
1480
890
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
MapReduce
in Hadoop-2.7.1
Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1 MR2
Time(seconds)
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Disk & network throughput
1. DataSource / Mapping
• Prefetcher is effective
• MR2 shows higher disk
throughput
2. Partition / Shuffling
• Records to shuffle are
generated faster from in MR2
3. DataSink / Reducing
• Preloader is effective
• Almost 2x throughput
Disk read
Disk write
Out
In
Cluster network throughput
Cluster disk throughput
Out
In
Disk read
Disk write
Flink MR2
1
1
2
2
3
3
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• Experimental results using 10 nodes
PUMA (PUrdue MApreduce benchmarks suite)
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Outline
• TeraSort for various engines
• Experimental setup
• Experimental results & analysis
• What else for better performance?
• Conclusion
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Conclusion
• Pipelined execution for both batch and streaming processing
• Even better than other batch processing engines for
TeraSort & HashJoin
• Shortcomings due to pipelined execution
• No fine-grained fault tolerance
• No map output compression
• Low disk throughput during the post-shuffling phase
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Thank you!
Any question?
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A Comparative Performance Evaluation of Apache Flink

  • 1.
    A Comparative Performance Evaluationof Flink Dongwon Kim POSTECH
  • 2.
    About Me • Postdoctoralresearcher @ POSTECH • Research interest • Design and implementation of distributed systems • Performance optimization of big data processing engines • Doctoral thesis • MR2: Fault Tolerant MapReduce with the Push Model • Personal blog • http://eastcirclek.blogspot.kr • Why I’m here  2
  • 3.
    Outline • TeraSort forvarious engines • Experimental setup • Results & analysis • What else for better performance? • Conclusion 3
  • 4.
    TeraSort • Hadoop MapReduceprogram for the annual terabyte sort competition • TeraSort is essentially distributed sort (DS) a4 b3 a1 a2 b1 b2 a2 b1 a3 a4 b3 b4 Disk a2 a4 b3 b1 a1 b4 a3 b2 a1 a3 b4 b2 Disk a2 a4 a1 a3 b3 b1 b4 b2 read shufflinglocal sort write Disk Disk local sort Node 1 Node 2 Typical DS phases : 4Total order
  • 5.
    • Included inHadoop distributions • with TeraGen & TeraValidate • Identity map & reduce functions • Range partitioner built on sampling • To guarantee a total order & to prevent partition skew • Sampling to compute boundary points within few seconds TeraSort for MapReduce Reduce taskMap task read shuffling sortsort reducemap write read shufflinglocal sort writelocal sortDS phases : reducemap 5 Record range … Partition 1 Partition 2 Partition r boundary points
  • 6.
    • Tez canexecute TeraSort for MapReduce w/o any modification • mapreduce.framework.name = yarn-tez • Tez DAG plan of TeraSort for MapReduce TeraSort for Tez finalreduce vertex initialmap vertex Map task read sortmap Reduce task shuffling sort reduce write input data output data 6
  • 7.
    TeraSort for Spark& Flink • My source code in GitHub: • https://github.com/eastcirclek/terasort • Sampling-based range partitioner from TeraSort for MapReduce • Visit my personal blog for a detailed explanation • http://eastcirclek.blogspot.kr 7
  • 8.
    RDD1 RDD2 • Code •Two RDDs TeraSort for Spark Stage 1Stage 0 Shuffle-Map Task (for newAPIHadoopFile) read sort Result Task (for repartitionAndSortWithinPartitions) shuffling sort write read shufflinglocal sort writelocal sort Create a new RDD to read from HDFS # partitions = # blocks Repartition the parent RDD based on the user-specified partitioner Write output to HDFS DS phases : 8
  • 9.
    Pipeline • Code • Pipelinesconsisting of four operators TeraSort for Flink read shuffling writelocal sort Create a dataset to read tuples from HDFS partition tuples Sort tuples of each partition DataSource Partition SortPartition DataSink local sort No map-side sorting due to pipelined execution Write output to HDFS DS phases : 9
  • 10.
    Importance of TeraSort •Suitable for measuring the pure performance of big data engines • No data transformation (like map, filter) with user-defined logic • Basic facilities of each engine are used • “Winning the sort benchmark” is a great means of PR 10
  • 11.
    Outline • TeraSort forvarious engines • Experimental setup • Machine specification • Node configuration • Results & analysis • What else for better performance? • Conclusion 11
  • 12.
    Machine specification (42identical machines) DELL PowerEdge R610 CPU Two X5650 processors (Total 12 cores) Memory Total 24Gb Disk 6 disks * 500GB/disk Network 10 Gigabit Ethernet My machine Spark team Processor Intel Xeon X5650 (Q1, 2010) Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Q1, 2012) Cores 6 * 2 processors 8 * 4 processors Memory 24GB 244GB Disks 6 HDD's 8 SSD's Results can be different in newer machines 12
  • 13.
    24GB on eachnode Node configuration Total 2 GB for daemons 13 GB Tez-0.7.0 NodeManager (1 GB) ShuffleService MapTask (1GB) DataNode (1 GB) MapTask (1GB) ReduceTask (1GB) ReduceTask (1GB) MapTask (1GB) MapTask (1GB) MapTask (1GB) … MapReduce-2.7.1 NodeManager (1 GB) ShuffleService DataNode (1 GB) MapTask (1GB) MapTask (1GB) ReduceTask (1GB) ReduceTask (1GB) MapTask (1GB) MapTask (1GB) MapTask (1GB) … 12 GB Flink Spark Spark-1.5.1 NodeManager (1 GB) Executor (12GB) Internal memory layout Various managers DataNode (1 GB) Task slot 1 Task slot 2 Task slot 12 ... Thread pool Flink-0.9.1 NodeManager (1 GB) TaskManager (12GB) DataNode (1 GB) Internal memory layout Various managers Task slot 1 Task slot 2 Task slot 12 ... Task threads Tez MapReduce ReduceTask (1GB)ReduceTask (1GB) 13 12 simultaneous tasks at most Driver (1GB) JobManager (1GB)
  • 14.
    Outline • TeraSort forvarious engines • Experimental setup • Results & analysis • Flink is faster than other engines due to its pipelined execution • What else for better performance? • Conclusion 14
  • 15.
    How to reada swimlane graph & throughput graphs Tasks Time since job starts (seconds) 2nd stage 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 15 Cluster network throughput Cluster disk throughput In Out Disk read Disk Write - 6 waves of 1st stage tasks - 1 wave of 2nd stage tasks - Two stages are hardly overlapped 1st stage 2nd stage 1st stage 2nd stage No network traffic during 1st stage Each line : duration of each task Different patterns for different stages
  • 16.
    Result of sorting80GB/node (3.2TB) 1480 sec 1st stage 1st stage 1st stage 2nd stage 2157 sec 2nd stage 2171 sec 1 DataSource 2 Partition 3 SortPartition 4 DataSink • Flink is the fastest due to its pipelined execution • Tez and Spark do not overlap 1st and 2nd stages • MapReduce is slow despite overlapping stages MapReduce in Hadoop-2.7.1 Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1 2nd stage 1887 sec 2157 1887 2171 1480 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 MapReduce in Hadoop-2.7.1 Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1 Time(seconds) 16* Map output compression turned on for Spark and Tez * *
  • 17.
    Tez and Sparkdo not overlap 1st and 2nd stages Cluster network throughput Cluster disk throughput In Out Disk read Cluster network throughput Cluster disk throughput In Out Disk read Disk write Disk write Disk read Disk write Out In (1) 2nd stage starts (2) Output of 1st stage is sent (1) 2nd stage starts (2) Output of 1st stage is sent (1) Network traffic occurs from start Cluster network throughput (2) Write to HDFS occurs right after shuffling is done 1 DataSource 2 Partition 3 SortPartition 4 DataSink idle idle (3) Disk write to HDFS occurs after shuffling is done (3) Disk write to HDFS occurs after shuffling is done 17
  • 18.
    Tez does notoverlap 1st and 2nd stages • Tez has parameters to control the degree of overlap • tez.shuffle-vertex-manager.min-src-fraction : 0.2 • tez.shuffle-vertex-manager.max-src-fraction : 0.4 • However, 2nd stage is scheduled early but launched late scheduled launched 18
  • 19.
    Spark does notoverlap 1st and 2nd stages • Spark cannot execute multiple stages simultaneously • also mentioned in the following VLDB paper (2015) Spark doesn’t support the overlap between shuffle write and read stages. … Spark may want to support this overlap in the future to improve performance. Experimental results of this paper - Spark is faster than MapReduce for WordCount, K-means, PageRank. - MapReduce is faster than Spark for Sort. 19
  • 20.
    MapReduce is slowdespite overlapping stages • mapreduce.job.reduce.slowstart.completedMaps : [0.0, 1.0] • Wang’s attempt to overlap spark stages 0.05 (overlapping, default) 0.95 (no overlapping) 2157 sec 10% improvement 20 Wang proposes to overlap stages to achieve better utilization 10%??? Why Spark & MapReduce improve just 10%? 2385 sec 2nd stage 1st stage
  • 21.
    Disk Data transfer betweentasks of different stages Output file P1 P2 Pn Shuffle server … Consumer Task 1 Consumer Task 2 Consumer Task n P1 … P2 Pn Traditional pull model - Used in MapReduce, Spark, Tez - Extra disk access & simultaneous disk access - Shuffling affects the performance of producers Producer Task (1) Write output to disk (2) Request P1 (3) Send P1 Pipelined data transfer - Used in Flink - Data transfer from memory to memory - Flink causes fewer disk access during shuffling 21 Leads to only 10% improvement
  • 22.
    Flink causes fewerdisk access during shuffling Map Reduce Flink diff. Total disk write (TB) 9.9 6.5 3.4 Total disk read (TB) 8.1 6.9 1.2 Difference comes from shuffling Shuffled data are sometimes read from page cache Cluster disk throughput Disk read Disk write Disk read Disk write Cluster disk throughput FlinkMapReduce 22 Total amount of disk read/write equals to the area of blue/green region
  • 23.
    Result of TeraSortwith various data sizes node data size (GB) Time (seconds) Flink Spark MapReduce Tez 10 157 387 259 277 20 350 652 555 729 40 741 1135 1085 1709 80 1480 2171 2157 1887 160 3127 4927 4796 3950 23 100 1000 10000 10 20 40 80 160 Time(seconds) node data size (GB) Flink Spark MapReduce Tez What we’ve seen Log scale * Map output compression turned on for Spark and Tez
  • 24.
    Result of HashJoin •10 slave nodes • org.apache.tez.examples.JoinDataGen • Small dataset : 256MB • Large dataset : 240GB (24GB/node) • Result : 24 Visit my blog  Flink is ~2x faster than Tez ~4x faster than Spark 770 1538 378 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1 Time(seconds) * No map output compression for both Spark and Tez unlike in TeraSort
  • 25.
    Result of HashJoinwith swimlane & throughput graphs 25 Idle 1 DataSource 2 DataSource 3 Join 4 DataSink Idle Cluster network throughput Cluster disk throughput In Out Disk read Disk write Disk read Disk write In Out In Out Disk read Disk write Cluster network throughput Cluster disk throughput 0.24 TB 0.41 TB 0.60 TB 0.84 TB 0.68 TB 0.74 TB Overlap 2nd 3rd
  • 26.
    Flink’s shortcoming • Nosupport for map output compression • Small data blocks are pipelined between operators • Job-level fault tolerance • Shuffle data are not materialized • Low disk throughput during the post-shuffling phase 26
  • 27.
    Low disk throughputduring the post-shuffling phase • Possible reason : sorting records from small files • Concurrent disk access to small files  too many disk seeks  low disk throughput • Other engines merge records from larger files than Flink • “Eager pipelining moves some of the sorting work from the mapper to the reducer” • from MapReduce online (NSDI 2010) Flink Tez MapReduce 27
  • 28.
    Outline • TeraSort forvarious engines • Experimental setup • Results & analysis • What else for better performance? • Conclusion 28
  • 29.
    MR2 – anotherMapReduce engine • PhD thesis • MR2: Fault Tolerant MapReduce with the Push Model • developed for 3 years • Provide the user interface of Hadoop MapReduce • No DAG support • No in-memory computation • No iterative-computation • Characteristics • Push model + Fault tolerance • Techniques to boost up HDD throughput • Prefetching for mappers • Preloading for reducers 29
  • 30.
    MR2 pipeline • 7types of components with memory buffers 1. Mappers & reducers : to apply user-defined functions 2. Prefetcher & preloader : to eliminate concurrent disk access 3. Sender & reducer & merger : to implement MR2’s push model • Various buffers : to pass data between components w/o disk IOs • Minimum disk access (2 disk reads & 2 disk writes) • +1 disk write for fault tolerance W1 R2 W2R1 30 1 12 23 3 3 W3
  • 31.
    Prefetcher & Mappers •Prefetcher loads data for multiple mappers • Mappers do not read input from disks <MR2><Hadoop MapReduce> Mapper1 processing Blk1 Mapper2 processing Blk2 Time Disk throughput CPU utilization 2 mappers on a node Blk1 Time Prefetcher Blk2 Blk3 Blk1 2 Blk1 1 Blk2 2 Blk2 1 Blk3 2 Blk3 1 Blk4 Blk4 2 Blk4 1 Disk throughput CPU utilization 2 mappers on a node 31
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    Push-model in MR2 •Node-to-node network connection for pushing data • To reduce # network connections • Data transfer from memory buffer • Mappers stores spills in send buffer • Spills are pushed to reducer sides by sender • Fault tolerance (can be turned on/off) • Input ranges of each spill are known to master for reproduce • For fast recovery • store spills on disk for fast recovery (extra disk write) 32 similar to Flink’s pipelined execution MR2 does local sorting before pushing data similar to Spark
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    Receiver’s managed memory Receiver& merger & preloader & reducer • Merger produces a file from different partition data • sorts each partition data • and then does interleaving • Preloader preloads each group into reduce buffer • Reducers do not read data directly from disks • MR2 can eliminate concurrent disk reads from reducers thanks to Preloader P1 P2 P3 P4 P1 P2 P3 P4 P1 P2 P3 P4 … … Preloader loads each group (1 disk access for 4 partitions) 33
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    Result of sorting80GB/node (3.2TB) with MR2 MapReduce in Hadoop-2.7.1 Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1 MR2 Time (sec) 2157 1887 2171 1480 890 MR2 speedup over other engines 2.42 2.12 2.44 1.66 - 2157 1887 2171 1480 890 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 MapReduce in Hadoop-2.7.1 Tez-0.7.0 Spark-1.5.1 Flink-0.9.1 MR2 Time(seconds) 34
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    Disk & networkthroughput 1. DataSource / Mapping • Prefetcher is effective • MR2 shows higher disk throughput 2. Partition / Shuffling • Records to shuffle are generated faster from in MR2 3. DataSink / Reducing • Preloader is effective • Almost 2x throughput Disk read Disk write Out In Cluster network throughput Cluster disk throughput Out In Disk read Disk write Flink MR2 1 1 2 2 3 3 35
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    • Experimental resultsusing 10 nodes PUMA (PUrdue MApreduce benchmarks suite) 36
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    Outline • TeraSort forvarious engines • Experimental setup • Experimental results & analysis • What else for better performance? • Conclusion 37
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    Conclusion • Pipelined executionfor both batch and streaming processing • Even better than other batch processing engines for TeraSort & HashJoin • Shortcomings due to pipelined execution • No fine-grained fault tolerance • No map output compression • Low disk throughput during the post-shuffling phase 38
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