Amplab Tachyon

Summary

Amplab-Tachyon is a fault tolerant distributed file system enabling reliable file sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks.

Owner

Name: Timothy St. Clair
Email: tstclair@redhat.com
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 21
Last updated: 25 March 2014
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Amplab-Tachyon is a fault tolerant distributed file system enabling reliable file sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks, such as Spark and MapReduce. It achieves high performance by leveraging lineage information and using memory aggressively. Amplab-Tachyon caches working set files in memory thereby avoiding going to disk to load datasets that are frequently read. This enables different jobs/queries and frameworks to access cached files at memory speed.

Benefit to Fedora

Amplab-Tachyon is an exciting project for Fedora as it enables in memory computation speeds for popular big-data frameworks that are part of fedora.

Scope

Proposal owners: Currently our Amplab-Tachyon package has been accepted into Fedora. It should feature all of the functionality available from the upstream release.

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A

How To Test

Detailed instructions here

User Experience

Users should be able to seamlessly deploy Amplab-Tachyon on an HDFS cluster to leverage in memory speeds using their exiting big-data frameworks.

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks product? N/A

Documentation