Oficina de BD: Bigtable - Um Sistema de Armazenamento ... · Bigtable - Um Sistema de Armazenamento Distribu do para Dados Estruturados Bruno Velasco UFPR Fay Chang, Je rey Dean,

Sumario Introducao Modelo de dados API - Exemplos Blocos Funcionamento Refinamentos Desempenho Conclusao

Oficina de BD:Bigtable - Um Sistema de Armazenamento

Distribuıdo para Dados Estruturados

Bruno Velasco UFPR

Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C.Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra,

Andrew Fikes, Robert E. Gruber Google

Curitiba, 5 de Novembro de 2013

Bruno Velasco [email protected] Oficina de BD - Bigtable


1 IntroducaoBigtable

2 Modelo de dadosLinha, Coluna, Timestamp

3 API - Exemplos4 Blocos

ChubbySStableTablet

5 FuncionamentoEncontrar tabletServir tabletExemplo

6 Refinamentos7 Desempenho

Into the Wild8 Conclusao



Introducao

Alternativa a SGBD

Difıcil de escalar

Escalonamento vertical

Alto custo

Dificuldade em dados semi-estruturados

O que e Bigtable?

E um sistema de armazenamento distribuıdo para dadosestruturados

Nao da suporte a operacoes 100% relacionais

Escalavel

Autonomo



Bigtable

Utilizado em mais de 60 produtos

Google Analytics

Google Finance

Google Earth

Google ...

Objetivos

Aplicabilidade diversa

Escalabilidade

Alto desempenho

Alta disponibilidade



Modelo de dados

"CNN.com""CNN""<html>..."

"<html>...""<html>..."

t9t6

t3t5 8t

"anchor:cnnsi.com"

"com.cnn.www"

"anchor:my.look.ca""contents:"

Figure 1: A slice of an example table that stores Web pages. The row name is a reversed URL. The contents column family con-tains the page contents, and the anchor column family contains the text of any anchors that reference the page. CNN’s home pageis referenced by both the Sports Illustrated and the MY-look home pages, so the row contains columns named anchor:cnnsi.comand anchor:my.look.ca. Each anchor cell has one version; the contents column has three versions, at timestamps t3, t5, and t6.

We settled on this data model after examining a varietyof potential uses of a Bigtable-like system. As one con-crete example that drove some of our design decisions,suppose we want to keep a copy of a large collection ofweb pages and related information that could be used bymany different projects; let us call this particular tablethe Webtable. In Webtable, we would use URLs as rowkeys, various aspects of web pages as column names, andstore the contents of the web pages in the contents: col-umn under the timestamps when they were fetched, asillustrated in Figure 1.

Rows

The row keys in a table are arbitrary strings (currently upto 64KB in size, although 10-100 bytes is a typical sizefor most of our users). Every read or write of data undera single row key is atomic (regardless of the number ofdifferent columns being read or written in the row), adesign decision that makes it easier for clients to reasonabout the system’s behavior in the presence of concurrentupdates to the same row.

Bigtable maintains data in lexicographic order by rowkey. The row range for a table is dynamically partitioned.Each row range is called a tablet, which is the unit of dis-tribution and load balancing. As a result, reads of shortrow ranges are efficient and typically require communi-cation with only a small number of machines. Clientscan exploit this property by selecting their row keys sothat they get good locality for their data accesses. Forexample, in Webtable, pages in the same domain aregrouped together into contiguous rows by reversing thehostname components of the URLs. For example, westore data for maps.google.com/index.html under thekey com.google.maps/index.html. Storing pages fromthe same domain near each other makes some host anddomain analyses more efficient.

Column Families

Column keys are grouped into sets called column fami-lies, which form the basic unit of access control. All datastored in a column family is usually of the same type (wecompress data in the same column family together). Acolumn family must be created before data can be storedunder any column key in that family; after a family hasbeen created, any column key within the family can beused. It is our intent that the number of distinct columnfamilies in a table be small (in the hundreds at most), andthat families rarely change during operation. In contrast,a table may have an unbounded number of columns.A column key is named using the following syntax:family:qualifier. Column family names must be print-able, but qualifiers may be arbitrary strings. An exam-ple column family for the Webtable is language, whichstores the language in which a web page was written. Weuse only one column key in the language family, and itstores each web page’s language ID. Another useful col-umn family for this table is anchor; each column key inthis family represents a single anchor, as shown in Fig-ure 1. The qualifier is the name of the referring site; thecell contents is the link text.Access control and both disk and memory account-ing are performed at the column-family level. In ourWebtable example, these controls allow us to manageseveral different types of applications: some that add newbase data, some that read the base data and create derivedcolumn families, and some that are only allowed to viewexisting data (and possibly not even to view all of theexisting families for privacy reasons).

Timestamps

Each cell in a Bigtable can contain multiple versions ofthe same data; these versions are indexed by timestamp.Bigtable timestamps are 64-bit integers. They can be as-signed by Bigtable, in which case they represent “realtime” in microseconds, or be explicitly assigned by client

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Caracterısticas

Bigtable e um mapeamento esparso, distribuıdo, persistente,multidimensional e ordenado

(row:string, column:string, timestamp:int64) −→ string



Linha, Coluna, Timestamp

Modelo de dados

Linha

Atomicidade

Ordem lexografica

Intervalo conhecido por tablet

Coluna

Unidade basica de controle

Column Families - Grupamento

Poucas CF, muitas colunas

Timestamp

Cada celula possui varias versoes

Garbage collector



Exemplos

Escrevendo// Open the tableTable *T = OpenOrDie("/bigtable/web/webtable");

// Write a new anchor and delete an old anchorRowMutation r1(T, "com.cnn.www");r1.Set("anchor:www.c-span.org", "CNN");r1.Delete("anchor:www.abc.com");Operation op;Apply(&op, &r1);

Figure 2: Writing to Bigtable.

applications. Applications that need to avoid collisionsmust generate unique timestamps themselves. Differentversions of a cell are stored in decreasing timestamp or-der, so that the most recent versions can be read first.To make the management of versioned data less oner-ous, we support two per-column-family settings that tellBigtable to garbage-collect cell versions automatically.The client can specify either that only the last n versionsof a cell be kept, or that only new-enough versions bekept (e.g., only keep values that were written in the lastseven days).In our Webtable example, we set the timestamps ofthe crawled pages stored in the contents: column tothe times at which these page versions were actuallycrawled. The garbage-collection mechanism describedabove lets us keep only the most recent three versions ofevery page.

3 API

The Bigtable API provides functions for creating anddeleting tables and column families. It also providesfunctions for changing cluster, table, and column familymetadata, such as access control rights.Client applications can write or delete values inBigtable, look up values from individual rows, or iter-ate over a subset of the data in a table. Figure 2 showsC++ code that uses a RowMutation abstraction to per-form a series of updates. (Irrelevant details were elidedto keep the example short.) The call to Apply performsan atomic mutation to the Webtable: it adds one anchorto www.cnn.com and deletes a different anchor.Figure 3 shows C++ code that uses a Scanner ab-straction to iterate over all anchors in a particular row.Clients can iterate over multiple column families, andthere are several mechanisms for limiting the rows,columns, and timestamps produced by a scan. For ex-ample, we could restrict the scan above to only produceanchors whose columns match the regular expressionanchor:*.cnn.com, or to only produce anchors whosetimestamps fall within ten days of the current time.

Scanner scanner(T);ScanStream *stream;stream = scanner.FetchColumnFamily("anchor");stream->SetReturnAllVersions();scanner.Lookup("com.cnn.www");for (; !stream->Done(); stream->Next()) {printf("%s %s %lld %s\n",

scanner.RowName(),stream->ColumnName(),stream->MicroTimestamp(),stream->Value());

}

Figure 3: Reading from Bigtable.

Bigtable supports several other features that allow theuser to manipulate data in more complex ways. First,Bigtable supports single-row transactions, which can beused to perform atomic read-modify-write sequences ondata stored under a single row key. Bigtable does not cur-rently support general transactions across row keys, al-though it provides an interface for batching writes acrossrow keys at the clients. Second, Bigtable allows cellsto be used as integer counters. Finally, Bigtable sup-ports the execution of client-supplied scripts in the ad-dress spaces of the servers. The scripts are written in alanguage developed at Google for processing data calledSawzall [28]. At the moment, our Sawzall-based APIdoes not allow client scripts to write back into Bigtable,but it does allow various forms of data transformation,filtering based on arbitrary expressions, and summariza-tion via a variety of operators.Bigtable can be used with MapReduce [12], a frame-work for running large-scale parallel computations de-veloped at Google. We have written a set of wrappersthat allow a Bigtable to be used both as an input sourceand as an output target for MapReduce jobs.

4 Building Blocks

Bigtable is built on several other pieces of Google in-frastructure. Bigtable uses the distributed Google FileSystem (GFS) [17] to store log and data files. A Bigtablecluster typically operates in a shared pool of machinesthat run a wide variety of other distributed applications,and Bigtable processes often share the same machineswith processes from other applications. Bigtable de-pends on a cluster management system for schedulingjobs, managing resources on shared machines, dealingwith machine failures, and monitoring machine status.The Google SSTable file format is used internally tostore Bigtable data. An SSTable provides a persistent,ordered immutable map from keys to values, where bothkeys and values are arbitrary byte strings. Operations areprovided to look up the value associated with a specified


Scan

// Open the tableTable *T = OpenOrDie("/bigtable/web/webtable");

// Write a new anchor and delete an old anchorRowMutation r1(T, "com.cnn.www");r1.Set("anchor:www.c-span.org", "CNN");r1.Delete("anchor:www.abc.com");Operation op;Apply(&op, &r1);

Figure 2: Writing to Bigtable.

applications. Applications that need to avoid collisionsmust generate unique timestamps themselves. Differentversions of a cell are stored in decreasing timestamp or-der, so that the most recent versions can be read first.To make the management of versioned data less oner-ous, we support two per-column-family settings that tellBigtable to garbage-collect cell versions automatically.The client can specify either that only the last n versionsof a cell be kept, or that only new-enough versions bekept (e.g., only keep values that were written in the lastseven days).In our Webtable example, we set the timestamps ofthe crawled pages stored in the contents: column tothe times at which these page versions were actuallycrawled. The garbage-collection mechanism describedabove lets us keep only the most recent three versions ofevery page.

3 API

The Bigtable API provides functions for creating anddeleting tables and column families. It also providesfunctions for changing cluster, table, and column familymetadata, such as access control rights.Client applications can write or delete values inBigtable, look up values from individual rows, or iter-ate over a subset of the data in a table. Figure 2 showsC++ code that uses a RowMutation abstraction to per-form a series of updates. (Irrelevant details were elidedto keep the example short.) The call to Apply performsan atomic mutation to the Webtable: it adds one anchorto www.cnn.com and deletes a different anchor.Figure 3 shows C++ code that uses a Scanner ab-straction to iterate over all anchors in a particular row.Clients can iterate over multiple column families, andthere are several mechanisms for limiting the rows,columns, and timestamps produced by a scan. For ex-ample, we could restrict the scan above to only produceanchors whose columns match the regular expressionanchor:*.cnn.com, or to only produce anchors whosetimestamps fall within ten days of the current time.

Scanner scanner(T);ScanStream *stream;stream = scanner.FetchColumnFamily("anchor");stream->SetReturnAllVersions();scanner.Lookup("com.cnn.www");for (; !stream->Done(); stream->Next()) {printf("%s %s %lld %s\n",

scanner.RowName(),stream->ColumnName(),stream->MicroTimestamp(),stream->Value());

}

Figure 3: Reading from Bigtable.

Bigtable supports several other features that allow theuser to manipulate data in more complex ways. First,Bigtable supports single-row transactions, which can beused to perform atomic read-modify-write sequences ondata stored under a single row key. Bigtable does not cur-rently support general transactions across row keys, al-though it provides an interface for batching writes acrossrow keys at the clients. Second, Bigtable allows cellsto be used as integer counters. Finally, Bigtable sup-ports the execution of client-supplied scripts in the ad-dress spaces of the servers. The scripts are written in alanguage developed at Google for processing data calledSawzall [28]. At the moment, our Sawzall-based APIdoes not allow client scripts to write back into Bigtable,but it does allow various forms of data transformation,filtering based on arbitrary expressions, and summariza-tion via a variety of operators.Bigtable can be used with MapReduce [12], a frame-work for running large-scale parallel computations de-veloped at Google. We have written a set of wrappersthat allow a Bigtable to be used both as an input sourceand as an output target for MapReduce jobs.

4 Building Blocks

Bigtable is built on several other pieces of Google in-frastructure. Bigtable uses the distributed Google FileSystem (GFS) [17] to store log and data files. A Bigtablecluster typically operates in a shared pool of machinesthat run a wide variety of other distributed applications,and Bigtable processes often share the same machineswith processes from other applications. Bigtable de-pends on a cluster management system for schedulingjobs, managing resources on shared machines, dealingwith machine failures, and monitoring machine status.The Google SSTable file format is used internally tostore Bigtable data. An SSTable provides a persistent,ordered immutable map from keys to values, where bothkeys and values are arbitrary byte strings. Operations areprovided to look up the value associated with a specified




Blocos

Bigtable utiliza alguns servicos Google

GFS - logs e dados

Chubby - controle de replicas, e lock distribuıdo

SSTable - formato de arquivo



Chubby

Chubby

Caracterısticas

Servico de lock distribuıdo

Controle de replicas (usa Paxos)

Utiliza diretorios e arquivos

Responsavel por bootstrap do Bigtable

Completamente responsavel pelo Bigtable



SStable

SStable

Caracterısticas

Formato de arquivo

Chave - valor

Imutavel



Tablet

Tablet

Caracterısticas

Unidade basica de armazenamento

Composto por intervalos bem definidos

Construıdo sobre SSTables

Gerenciado por Tablet server



Tablet

Tabela



Funcionamento

Requisitos

Cliente carrega lib

1 master: responsavel por associar tablets a tablet servers. De10 a 1000. Monitora mudanca de esquemas. Balanceamentode carga

N tablet servers (gerenciamento dinamico). Clientes secomunicam diretamente com eles.



Encontrar tablet

Encontrando tablet

key, and to iterate over all key/value pairs in a specifiedkey range. Internally, each SSTable contains a sequenceof blocks (typically each block is 64KB in size, but thisis configurable). A block index (stored at the end of theSSTable) is used to locate blocks; the index is loadedinto memory when the SSTable is opened. A lookupcan be performed with a single disk seek: we first findthe appropriate block by performing a binary search inthe in-memory index, and then reading the appropriateblock from disk. Optionally, an SSTable can be com-pletely mapped into memory, which allows us to performlookups and scans without touching disk.Bigtable relies on a highly-available and persistentdistributed lock service called Chubby [8]. A Chubbyservice consists of five active replicas, one of which iselected to be the master and actively serve requests. Theservice is live when a majority of the replicas are runningand can communicate with each other. Chubby uses thePaxos algorithm [9, 23] to keep its replicas consistent inthe face of failure. Chubby provides a namespace thatconsists of directories and small files. Each directory orfile can be used as a lock, and reads and writes to a fileare atomic. The Chubby client library provides consis-tent caching of Chubby files. Each Chubby client main-tains a session with a Chubby service. A client’s sessionexpires if it is unable to renew its session lease within thelease expiration time. When a client’s session expires, itloses any locks and open handles. Chubby clients canalso register callbacks on Chubby files and directoriesfor notification of changes or session expiration.Bigtable uses Chubby for a variety of tasks: to ensurethat there is at most one active master at any time; tostore the bootstrap location of Bigtable data (see Sec-tion 5.1); to discover tablet servers and finalize tabletserver deaths (see Section 5.2); to store Bigtable schemainformation (the column family information for each ta-ble); and to store access control lists. If Chubby becomesunavailable for an extended period of time, Bigtable be-comes unavailable. We recently measured this effectin 14 Bigtable clusters spanning 11 Chubby instances.The average percentage of Bigtable server hours duringwhich some data stored in Bigtable was not available dueto Chubby unavailability (caused by either Chubby out-ages or network issues) was 0.0047%. The percentagefor the single cluster that was most affected by Chubbyunavailability was 0.0326%.

5 Implementation

The Bigtable implementation has three major compo-nents: a library that is linked into every client, one mas-ter server, and many tablet servers. Tablet servers can be

dynamically added (or removed) from a cluster to acco-modate changes in workloads.The master is responsible for assigning tablets to tabletservers, detecting the addition and expiration of tabletservers, balancing tablet-server load, and garbage col-lection of files in GFS. In addition, it handles schemachanges such as table and column family creations.Each tablet server manages a set of tablets (typicallywe have somewhere between ten to a thousand tablets pertablet server). The tablet server handles read and writerequests to the tablets that it has loaded, and also splitstablets that have grown too large.As with many single-master distributed storage sys-tems [17, 21], client data does not move through the mas-ter: clients communicate directly with tablet servers forreads and writes. Because Bigtable clients do not rely onthe master for tablet location information, most clientsnever communicate with the master. As a result, the mas-ter is lightly loaded in practice.A Bigtable cluster stores a number of tables. Each ta-ble consists of a set of tablets, and each tablet containsall data associated with a row range. Initially, each tableconsists of just one tablet. As a table grows, it is auto-matically split into multiple tablets, each approximately100-200 MB in size by default.

5.1 Tablet LocationWe use a three-level hierarchy analogous to that of a B+-tree [10] to store tablet location information (Figure 4).

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...

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tabletsMETADATA Other

Chubby file ...

UserTable1

UserTableN...

...

...

...

...Root tablet

(1st METADATA tablet)

Figure 4: Tablet location hierarchy.

The first level is a file stored in Chubby that containsthe location of the root tablet. The root tablet containsthe location of all tablets in a special METADATA table.Each METADATA tablet contains the location of a set ofuser tablets. The root tablet is just the first tablet in theMETADATA table, but is treated specially—it is neversplit—to ensure that the tablet location hierarchy has nomore than three levels.The METADATA table stores the location of a tabletunder a row key that is an encoding of the tablet’s table


Requisitos

Semelhante a arvore B+



Servir tablet

Servindo tablet

because the tablet server or the master died), the masterdetects the new tablet when it asks a tablet server to loadthe tablet that has now split. The tablet server will notifythe master of the split, because the tablet entry it finds inthe METADATA table will specify only a portion of thetablet that the master asked it to load.

5.3 Tablet ServingThe persistent state of a tablet is stored in GFS, as illus-trated in Figure 5. Updates are committed to a commitlog that stores redo records. Of these updates, the re-cently committed ones are stored in memory in a sortedbuffer called amemtable; the older updates are stored in asequence of SSTables. To recover a tablet, a tablet server

tablet log

GFS

Memory

Write OpSSTable Files

memtable Read Op

Figure 5: Tablet Representation

reads its metadata from the METADATA table. This meta-data contains the list of SSTables that comprise a tabletand a set of a redo points, which are pointers into anycommit logs that may contain data for the tablet. Theserver reads the indices of the SSTables into memory andreconstructs the memtable by applying all of the updatesthat have committed since the redo points.When a write operation arrives at a tablet server, theserver checks that it is well-formed, and that the senderis authorized to perform the mutation. Authorization isperformed by reading the list of permitted writers from aChubby file (which is almost always a hit in the Chubbyclient cache). A valid mutation is written to the commitlog. Group commit is used to improve the throughput oflots of small mutations [13, 16]. After the write has beencommitted, its contents are inserted into the memtable.When a read operation arrives at a tablet server, it issimilarly checked for well-formedness and proper autho-rization. A valid read operation is executed on a mergedview of the sequence of SSTables and the memtable.Since the SSTables and the memtable are lexicograph-ically sorted data structures, the merged view can beformed efficiently.Incoming read and write operations can continuewhile tablets are split and merged.

5.4 CompactionsAs write operations execute, the size of the memtable in-creases. When the memtable size reaches a threshold, thememtable is frozen, a new memtable is created, and thefrozen memtable is converted to an SSTable and writtento GFS. This minor compaction process has two goals:it shrinks the memory usage of the tablet server, and itreduces the amount of data that has to be read from thecommit log during recovery if this server dies. Incom-ing read and write operations can continue while com-pactions occur.Everyminor compaction creates a new SSTable. If thisbehavior continued unchecked, read operations mightneed to merge updates from an arbitrary number ofSSTables. Instead, we bound the number of such filesby periodically executing a merging compaction in thebackground. A merging compaction reads the contentsof a few SSTables and the memtable, and writes out anew SSTable. The input SSTables and memtable can bediscarded as soon as the compaction has finished.A merging compaction that rewrites all SSTablesinto exactly one SSTable is called a major compaction.SSTables produced by non-major compactions can con-tain special deletion entries that suppress deleted data inolder SSTables that are still live. A major compaction,on the other hand, produces an SSTable that containsno deletion information or deleted data. Bigtable cy-cles through all of its tablets and regularly applies majorcompactions to them. These major compactions allowBigtable to reclaim resources used by deleted data, andalso allow it to ensure that deleted data disappears fromthe system in a timely fashion, which is important forservices that store sensitive data.

6 Refinements

The implementation described in the previous sectionrequired a number of refinements to achieve the highperformance, availability, and reliability required by ourusers. This section describes portions of the implementa-tion in more detail in order to highlight these refinements.

Locality groups

Clients can group multiple column families together intoa locality group. A separate SSTable is generated foreach locality group in each tablet. Segregating columnfamilies that are not typically accessed together into sep-arate locality groups enables more efficient reads. Forexample, page metadata in Webtable (such as languageand checksums) can be in one locality group, and thecontents of the page can be in a different group: an ap-


Caracterısticas

memtable e uma cache ordenada

Recem commits vao para memtable

Compactacoes: pequenas, juncoes, grandes



Exemplo

Exemplo



Refinamentos

Grupos de localidade

Agrega column families em um mesmo servidor, permitindo estarna memoria tambem

Compressao

Cada SSTable pode ser comprimido



Experimentos

# of Tablet ServersExperiment 1 50 250 500random reads 1212 593 479 241random reads (mem) 10811 8511 8000 6250random writes 8850 3745 3425 2000sequential reads 4425 2463 2625 2469sequential writes 8547 3623 2451 1905scans 15385 10526 9524 7843 100 200 300 400 500

Number of tablet servers

1M

2M

3M

4M

Val

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ead/

wri

tten

per

seco

nd scansrandom reads (mem)random writessequential readssequential writesrandom reads

Figure 6: Number of 1000-byte values read/written per second. The table shows the rate per tablet server; the graph shows theaggregate rate.

signed the next available range to a client as soon as theclient finished processing the previous range assigned toit. This dynamic assignment helped mitigate the effectsof performance variations caused by other processes run-ning on the client machines. We wrote a single string un-der each row key. Each string was generated randomlyand was therefore uncompressible. In addition, stringsunder different row key were distinct, so no cross-rowcompressionwas possible. The randomwrite benchmarkwas similar except that the row key was hashed moduloR immediately before writing so that the write load wasspread roughly uniformly across the entire row space forthe entire duration of the benchmark.

The sequential read benchmark generated row keys inexactly the same way as the sequential write benchmark,but instead of writing under the row key, it read the stringstored under the row key (which was written by an earlierinvocation of the sequential write benchmark). Similarly,the random read benchmark shadowed the operation ofthe random write benchmark.

The scan benchmark is similar to the sequential readbenchmark, but uses support provided by the BigtableAPI for scanning over all values in a row range. Us-ing a scan reduces the number of RPCs executed by thebenchmark since a single RPC fetches a large sequenceof values from a tablet server.

The random reads (mem) benchmark is similar to therandom read benchmark, but the locality group that con-tains the benchmark data is marked as in-memory, andtherefore the reads are satisfied from the tablet server’smemory instead of requiring a GFS read. For just thisbenchmark, we reduced the amount of data per tabletserver from 1 GB to 100 MB so that it would fit com-fortably in the memory available to the tablet server.

Figure 6 shows two views on the performance of ourbenchmarks when reading and writing 1000-byte valuesto Bigtable. The table shows the number of operationsper second per tablet server; the graph shows the aggre-gate number of operations per second.

Single tablet-server performance

Let us first consider performance with just one tabletserver. Random reads are slower than all other operationsby an order of magnitude or more. Each random read in-volves the transfer of a 64 KB SSTable block over thenetwork from GFS to a tablet server, out of which only asingle 1000-byte value is used. The tablet server executesapproximately 1200 reads per second, which translatesinto approximately 75 MB/s of data read from GFS. Thisbandwidth is enough to saturate the tablet server CPUsbecause of overheads in our networking stack, SSTableparsing, and Bigtable code, and is also almost enoughto saturate the network links used in our system. MostBigtable applications with this type of an access patternreduce the block size to a smaller value, typically 8KB.Random reads from memory are much faster sinceeach 1000-byte read is satisfied from the tablet server’slocal memory without fetching a large 64 KB block fromGFS.Random and sequential writes perform better than ran-dom reads since each tablet server appends all incomingwrites to a single commit log and uses group commit tostream these writes efficiently to GFS. There is no sig-nificant difference between the performance of randomwrites and sequential writes; in both cases, all writes tothe tablet server are recorded in the same commit log.Sequential reads perform better than random readssince every 64 KB SSTable block that is fetched fromGFS is stored into our block cache, where it is used toserve the next 64 read requests.Scans are even faster since the tablet server can returna large number of values in response to a single clientRPC, and therefore RPC overhead is amortized over alarge number of values.

Scaling

Aggregate throughput increases dramatically, by over afactor of a hundred, as we increase the number of tabletservers in the system from 1 to 500. For example, the


Analises

Escritas melhor devido ao unico commit no log

Leitura sequencial melhor pois se beneficia da localidadeespacial

Scan melhor pois nao ha RCP

Escala em um fator de 100



Into the Wild

Into the Wild

Project Table size Compression # Cells # Column # Locality % in Latency-name (TB) ratio (billions) Families Groups memory sensitive?Crawl 800 11% 1000 16 8 0% NoCrawl 50 33% 200 2 2 0% No

Google Analytics 20 29% 10 1 1 0% YesGoogle Analytics 200 14% 80 1 1 0% YesGoogle Base 2 31% 10 29 3 15% YesGoogle Earth 0.5 64% 8 7 2 33% YesGoogle Earth 70 – 9 8 3 0% NoOrkut 9 – 0.9 8 5 1% Yes

Personalized Search 4 47% 6 93 11 5% Yes

Table 2: Characteristics of a few tables in production use. Table size (measured before compression) and # Cells indicate approxi-mate sizes. Compression ratio is not given for tables that have compression disabled.

Each row in the imagery table corresponds to a sin-gle geographic segment. Rows are named to ensure thatadjacent geographic segments are stored near each other.The table contains a column family to keep track of thesources of data for each segment. This column familyhas a large number of columns: essentially one for eachraw data image. Since each segment is only built from afew images, this column family is very sparse.The preprocessing pipeline relies heavily on MapRe-duce over Bigtable to transform data. The overall systemprocesses over 1 MB/sec of data per tablet server duringsome of these MapReduce jobs.The serving system uses one table to index data storedin GFS. This table is relatively small (˜500 GB), but itmust serve tens of thousands of queries per second perdatacenter with low latency. As a result, this table ishosted across hundreds of tablet servers and contains in-memory column families.

8.3 Personalized SearchPersonalized Search (www.google.com/psearch) is anopt-in service that records user queries and clicks acrossa variety of Google properties such as web search, im-ages, and news. Users can browse their search historiesto revisit their old queries and clicks, and they can askfor personalized search results based on their historicalGoogle usage patterns.Personalized Search stores each user’s data inBigtable. Each user has a unique userid and is assigneda row named by that userid. All user actions are storedin a table. A separate column family is reserved for eachtype of action (for example, there is a column family thatstores all web queries). Each data element uses as itsBigtable timestamp the time at which the correspondinguser action occurred. Personalized Search generates userprofiles using a MapReduce over Bigtable. These userprofiles are used to personalize live search results.

The Personalized Search data is replicated across sev-eral Bigtable clusters to increase availability and to re-duce latency due to distance from clients. The Personal-ized Search team originally built a client-side replicationmechanism on top of Bigtable that ensured eventual con-sistency of all replicas. The current system now uses areplication subsystem that is built into the servers.The design of the Personalized Search storage systemallows other groups to add new per-user information intheir own columns, and the system is now used by manyother Google properties that need to store per-user con-figuration options and settings. Sharing a table amongstmany groups resulted in an unusually large number ofcolumn families. To help support sharing, we added asimple quota mechanism to Bigtable to limit the stor-age consumption by any particular client in shared ta-bles; this mechanism provides some isolation betweenthe various product groups using this system for per-userinformation storage.

9 Lessons

In the process of designing, implementing, maintaining,and supporting Bigtable, we gained useful experienceand learned several interesting lessons.One lesson we learned is that large distributed sys-tems are vulnerable to many types of failures, not justthe standard network partitions and fail-stop failures as-sumed in many distributed protocols. For example, wehave seen problems due to all of the following causes:memory and network corruption, large clock skew, hungmachines, extended and asymmetric network partitions,bugs in other systems that we are using (Chubby for ex-ample), overflow of GFS quotas, and planned and un-planned hardware maintenance. As we have gainedmoreexperience with these problems, we have addressed themby changing various protocols. For example, we addedchecksumming to our RPC mechanism. We also handled




Consideracoes

Contempla requisitos de alta disponibilidade, desempenho,escalabilidade e armazenamento

Satisfatoriamente empregado em diversos produtos Google(mais de 60)

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