What is Pravega?
Pravega is Open Source
Streaming is motivating us to rethink fundamental data processing and storage principles. As storage experts, Dell EMC is doing its part by designing a new storage primitive purpose-built for streaming data. We are open sourcing Pravega under the Apache 2.0 License to accelerate the adoption of streaming technology. Open source is right for Pravega because we believe that disruptive technologies should be owned and driven by a community of passionate open source developers.
Pravega is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.
Exactly-Once Semantics
Ensure that each event is delivered and processed exactly once, with exact ordering guarantees, despite failures in clients, servers or the network.
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Key Features
Exactly-Once Semantics
Ensure that each event is delivered and processed exactly once, with exact ordering guarantees, despite failures in clients, servers or the network.
Auto-Scaling
Unlike systems with static partitioning, Pravega can automatically scale individual data streams to accommodate changes in data ingestion rate.
Distributed Computing Primitive
Pravega is great for distributed computing; it can be used as a data storage mechanism, for messaging between processes and for other distributed computing services such as leader election.
Write Efficiency
Pravega shrinks write latency to milliseconds, and seamlessly scales to handle high throughput reads and writes from thousands of concurrent clients, making it ideal for IoT and other time sensitive applications.
Unlimited Retention
Ingest, process and retain data in streams forever. Use same paradigm to access both real-time and historical events stored in Pravega.
Durability
Don't compromise between performance, durability and consistency. Pravega persists and protects data before the write operation is acknowledged to the client.
Storage Efficiency
Use Pravega to build pipelines of data processing, combining batch, real-time and other applications without duplicating data for every step of the pipeline.
Transaction Support
A developer uses a Pravega Transaction to ensure that a set of events are written to a stream atomically.
Key Features
Exactly-Once Semantics
Ensure that each event is delivered and processed exactly once, with exact ordering guarantees, despite failures in clients, servers or the network.
Auto-Scaling
Unlike systems with static partitioning, Pravega can automatically scale individual data streams to accommodate changes in data ingestion rate.
Distributed Computing Primitive
Pravega is great for distributed computing; it can be used as a data storage mechanism, for messaging between processes and for other distributed computing services such as leader election.
Write Efficiency
Pravega shrinks write latency to milliseconds, and seamlessly scales to handle high throughput reads and writes from thousands of concurrent clients, making it ideal for IoT and other time sensitive applications.
Unlimited Retention
Ingest, process and retain data in streams forever. Use same paradigm to access both real-time and historical events stored in Pravega.
Durability
Don't compromise between performance, durability and consistency. Pravega persists and protects data before the write operation is acknowledged to the client.
Storage Efficiency
Use Pravega to build pipelines of data processing, combining batch, real-time and other applications without duplicating data for every step of the pipeline.
Transaction Support
A developer uses a Pravega Transaction to ensure that a set of events are written to a stream atomically.
Use Cases
Use Cases
Consistent, high performance storage, ideal for IoT
IoT Renewable Energy: Harnessing wind power at commercial scale requires a large number of wind turbines distributed over a large area. Each wind turbine generates thousands of data points per second (e.g. temperature, rotation speed, wind direction, energy output). Collecting all this data for historical and real-time analysis is necessary for prediction of potential failures as well as controlling power distribution networks to manage the variable nature of renewable energy. Unique benefits that Pravega offers:
Coordinating distributed applications
Distributed applications like micro-services: Pravega is a storage primitive, it is a messaging mechanism and it is a distributed computing coordination framework. Using the State Synchronizer API, micro-services can use Pravega as their database, sharing data without the overhead of a database. Other distributed computing problems such as discovery, leader election and many more can be built using Pravega. Unique benefits that Pravega offers
Same storage API for both real-time and historical data
Telecommunications: Companies have vast networks of complex infrastructure distributed across the world. Each component generates its own log representing its limited view of the global state. It's crucial all logs are aggregated and analyzed in real-time to detect issues before they disrupt service. Unique benefits that Pravega offers:
Distributed Pub/Sub
Multi Player Gaming: Low latency and high speed message delivery is vital for online multi-player gaming platforms. Each player's movements, interactions and events need to be reflected across all connected devices as they happen in real-time. Game messaging data is also stored for generating player leader board statistics from historical data to troubleshooting. Unique benefits that Pravega offers:
Exactly once stream processing with Apache Flink
Targeted Web Advertising: Targeting advertising to a customer’s interests or needs is key to increasing its effectiveness. First, unique users are identified in streams of data by correlating specific identifiers from multiple sources. Next, a user profile is generated by aggregating historical session data - extrapolating interests or demographic criteria against which the advertising can be targeted. Finally, user interactions on a website are correlated with their profiles in real-time to embed relevant ads from a catalogue of available options. Unique benefits that Pravega offers:
Building modern, storage efficient data pipelines
Real-time and batch analytics: Historically, developers used a so-called Lambda architecture to build analytics platforms that process big data into accurate and real-time information. This approach required duplicate application development, one to provide accurate results over historical data using tools like HDFS and one to provide approximate but timely results using a different set of tools like Apache Storm. With Pravega, developers can build one application, satisfying both batch and real-time, eliminating complicated, hard to maintain dual infrastructures. Unique benefits that Pravega offers:
Use Cases
Coordinating distributed applications
Distributed applications like micro-services: Pravega is a storage primitive, it is a messaging mechanism and it is a distributed computing coordination framework. Using the State Synchronizer API, micro-services can use Pravega as their database, sharing data without the overhead of a database. Other distributed computing problems such as discovery, leader election and many more can be built using Pravega.
Same storage API for both real-time and historical data
Telecommunications: Companies have vast networks of complex infrastructure distributed across the world. Each component generates its own log representing its limited view of the global state. It's crucial all logs are aggregated and analyzed in real-time to detect issues before they disrupt service.
Distributed Pub/Sub
Multi Player Gaming: Low latency and high speed message delivery is vital for online multi-player gaming platforms. Each player's movements, interactions and events need to be reflected across all connected devices as they happen in real-time. Game messaging data is also stored for generating player leader board statistics from historical data to troubleshooting.
Exactly once stream processing with Apache Flink
Targeted Web Advertising: Targeting advertising to a customer’s interests or needs is key to increasing its effectiveness. First, unique users are identified in streams of data by correlating specific identifiers from multiple sources. Next, a user profile is generated by aggregating historical session data - extrapolating interests or demographic criteria against which the advertising can be targeted. Finally, user interactions on a website are correlated with their profiles in real-time to embed relevant ads from a catalogue of available options.
Building modern, storage efficient data pipelines
Real-time and batch analytics: Historically, developers used a so-called Lambda architecture to build analytics platforms that process big data into accurate and real-time information. This approach required duplicate application development, one to provide accurate results over historical data using tools like HDFS and one to provide approximate but timely results using a different set of tools like Apache Storm. With Pravega, developers can build one application, satisfying both batch and real-time, eliminating complicated, hard to maintain dual infrastructures.
Real-time Cybersecurity Threat Detection
To detect cybersecurity threads in real-time, huge volumes of streaming data from servers, network infrastructure, and applications logs must be analyzed in real-time using AI to identify possible threats. Event-driven applications must act quickly and reliably to notify system administrators and update firewall rules to block dangerous traffic.
Benefits that Pravega Offers
Example Solution Architecture
- A summary of inferred threats will be updated in the database.
- Threat details will be permanently stored in the Threads stream.
Benefits that Pravega Offers
Example Solution Architecture
- Pravega Sensor Collector or a similar component collects sensor data from IoT devices and forwards it to the Pravega stream Raw Sensors.
- A Spark streaming job reads from the Raw Sensors stream, performs inference, and writes inference results to a new Pravega stream Clean Sensors with Inference. Note that Pravega provides connectors for Spark and Flink they can be used interchangeably throughout this solution.
- A Flink job aggregates events from the Clean Sensors with Inference stream and updates a database for serving dashboard requests.
- The database can be PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Pravega Search, or anything else supported by Flink.
- A web server provides a UI to view a dashboard. If using Elasticsearch or Pravega Search, this can be Kibana.
- A Flink job is used to continuously copy stream events from an edge cluster to a data center or cloud instance of Pravega.
- Pravega stream retention is configured to keep just a few days of data in the edge cluster, to reduce the storage requirements at the edge. Older events will be automatically deleted.
- A Flink job in the data center or cloud can aggregate events from multiple edge clusters and write to the Aggregated stream.
- A Spark batch job can train or retrain an AI model based on the long-term historical events in the Aggregated stream. The new model can then be deployed as a new Spark AI Inference job in the edge cluster.
- By default, all stream data will be stored on Long Term Storage (HDFS, NFS, Dell ECS S3) forever. Retention policies can be applied as needed to delete older events.
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Benefits that Pravega Offers
Example Solution Architecture
- A summary of all billable events for the billing period will be updated in the database.
- An estimate of the monthly bill, based on historical patterns, will be updated in the database.
- At the end of the billing period, the actual bill will be generated, stored in the database for electronic billing, and permanently stored in the Monthly Bill stream
Use Cases
Predictive Maintenance for IoT
Harnessing wind power at commercial scale requires a large number of wind turbines distributed over a large area. Each wind turbine generates thousands of data points per second (e.g. temperature, rotation speed, wind direction, energy output). Collecting all this data for historical and real-time analysis is necessary for prediction of potential failures as well as controlling power distribution networks to manage the variable nature of renewable energy. Pravega can be a key component of a predictive maintenance solution for a wide variety of equipment, including wind turbines, machines on a factory floor, trains, computer hardware, and even roller coasters.
Real-time Billing
A typical billing system will collect billable events from a variety of sources such as online purchases, server usage metrics, network usage metrics, electrical meters, and much more. Traditional billing systems process these events once a month to provide monthly bills. In contrast, a real-time billing system is able to continuously provide billing information that is accurate up to the day (or better). This avoids surprising differences between an estimated bill based on inaccurate data and the actual bill.
Real-time Cybersecurity Threat Detection
To detect cybersecurity threads in real-time, huge volumes of streaming data from servers, network infrastructure, and applications logs must be analyzed in real-time using AI to identify possible threats. Event-driven applications must act quickly and reliably to notify system administrators and update firewall rules to block dangerous traffic.
Real-time Cybersecurity Threat Detection
To detect cybersecurity threads in real-time, huge volumes of streaming data from servers, network infrastructure, and applications logs must be analyzed in real-time using AI to identify possible threats. Event-driven applications must act quickly and reliably to notify system administrators and update firewall rules to block dangerous traffic.
Use Cases
Predictive Maintenance for IoT
Harnessing wind power at commercial scale requires a large number of wind turbines distributed over a large area. Each wind turbine generates thousands of data points per second (e.g. temperature, rotation speed, wind direction, energy output). Collecting all this data for historical and real-time analysis is necessary for prediction of potential failures as well as controlling power distribution networks to manage the variable nature of renewable energy. Pravega can be a key component of a predictive maintenance solution for a wide variety of equipment, including wind turbines, machines on a factory floor, trains, computer hardware, and even roller coasters.
Real-time Billing
A typical billing system will collect billable events from a variety of sources such as online purchases, server usage metrics, network usage metrics, electrical meters, and much more. Traditional billing systems process these events once a month to provide monthly bills. In contrast, a real-time billing system is able to continuously provide billing information that is accurate up to the day (or better). This avoids surprising differences between an estimated bill based on inaccurate data and the actual bill.
Real-time Cybersecurity Threat Detection
To detect cybersecurity threads in real-time, huge volumes of streaming data from servers, network infrastructure, and applications logs must be analyzed in real-time using AI to identify possible threats. Event-driven applications must act quickly and reliably to notify system administrators and update firewall rules to block dangerous traffic.
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Change Data Capture (CDC) is becoming a popular technique for interconnecting disparate systems, for replicating state across traditional boundaries, for decomposing existing monoliths into microservices, and for the recordation of audit trails. CDC is the idea of emitting a changelog of all INSERT‘s, UPDATE‘s, DELETE‘s, and schema changes performed on a database. Debezium.io is an […]
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