mikewalch closed pull request #148: Moved Percolator reference to design docs URL: https://github.com/apache/fluo-website/pull/148
This is a PR merged from a forked repository. As GitHub hides the original diff on merge, it is displayed below for the sake of provenance: As this is a foreign pull request (from a fork), the diff is supplied below (as it won't show otherwise due to GitHub magic): diff --git a/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md b/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md index 00d6f7a4..fb2dcd34 100644 --- a/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md +++ b/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md @@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ The diagram below provides an overview of Apache Fluo's design. ![fluo-architecture][1] +## Background + +The design of Apache Fluo is inspired by Google's [Percolator][percolator] which is described as +being used to populate Google's search index. + ## Fluo Application A **Fluo application** maintains a large scale computation using a series of small transactional @@ -42,4 +47,5 @@ Fluo requires the following software to be running on the cluster: * **Zookeeper** - Fluo stores its metadata and state information in Zookeeper. Zookeeper is also required for Accumulo. +[percolator]: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html [1]: /resources/docs/fluo-architecture.png diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index a4f9080d..92b7e45c 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ <h3>Apache Fluo™ is a distributed processing system that lets users make i <a href="https://twitter.com/apachefluo"; target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm navbar-btn"><i class="fa fa-twitter fa-lg"></i> Follow</a> </div> <h3 style="padding-top: 0px">Overview</h3> - <p>With Apache Fluo, users can set up workflows that execute cross node transactions when data changes. These workflows enable users to continuously join new data into large existing data sets without reprocessing all data. Apache Fluo is an open source implementation of <a href="https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html"; target="_blank">Percolator</a> (which populates Google's search index) that is built on <a href="https://accumulo.apache.org/"; target="_blank">Apache Accumulo</a>.</p> + <p>With Apache Fluo, users can set up workflows that execute cross node transactions when data changes. These workflows enable users to continuously join new data into large existing data sets without reprocessing all data. Apache Fluo is built on <a href="https://accumulo.apache.org/"; target="_blank">Apache Accumulo</a>.</p> <p>Take the <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/tour/">Fluo tour</a> if you are interested in learning more. Feel free to <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/contactus/">contact us</a> if you have questions.</p> </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] With regards, Apache Git Services
