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kishore gopalakrishna commented on S4-110:
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Hi Aimee,
Can you please elaborate on using PEtype to partition. I plan to work merging
the changes to with the dev branch. It would be great if you can explain the
pros and cons of using petype v/s stream to do partitioning. I might be able to
incorporate the required changes
> Enhance cluster management features in S4
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: S4-110
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/S4-110
> Project: Apache S4
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: kishore gopalakrishna
> Assignee: kishore gopalakrishna
> Fix For: 0.6
>
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> In S4 the number of partition is fixed for all streams and is dependent on
> the number of nodes in the cluster. Adding new nodes to S4 cluster causes
> the number of partitions to change. This results in lot of data movement. For
> example if there are 4 nodes and you add another node then nearly all keys
> will be remapped which result is huge data movement where as ideally only 20%
> of the data should move.
> By using Helix, every stream can be partitioned differently and independent
> of the number of nodes. Helix distributes the partitions evenly among the
> nodes. When new nodes are added, partitions can be migrated to new nodes
> without changing the number of partitions and minimizes the data movement.
>
> In S4 handles failures by having stand by nodes that are idle most of the
> time and become active when a node fails. Even though this works, its not
> ideal in terms of efficient hardware usage since the stand by nodes are idle
> most of the time. This also increases the fail over time since the PE state
> has to be transfered to only one node.
> Helix allows S4 to have Active and Standby nodes at a partition level so that
> all nodes can be active but some partitions will be Active and some in stand
> by mode. When a node fails, the partitions that were Active on that node
> will be evenly distributed among the remaining nodes. This provides automatic
> load balancing and also improves fail over time, since PE state can be
> transfered to multiple nodes in parallel.
> I have a prototype implementation here
> https://github.com/kishoreg/incubator-s4
> Instructions to build it and try it out are in the Readme.
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