Performance Tuning a Distributed Structured Storage System on GCloud

Apache Accumulo is a distributed storage system for structured data. Like HBase, Hypertable, and Cassandra, Accumulo's design was inspired by Google's 2006 BigTable (http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html) paper.

In this talk we will discuss running Accumulo on GCloud Compute. The talk will provide some pointers on how to set up automated scripts for deployment and share some benchmarking results.

We will address the challenges of performance tuning Accumulo to achieve high-throughput ingest including experiments around: SSD vs. disk, local vs. network storage, disk to CPU ratios, etc.

The talk will also include a high-level discussion around high-volume data ingest use cases.

Speakers:

Calvin Feder is Quality Assurance Lead at Argyle Data. Calvin has extensive experience with deploying distributed systems in live operational environments. Previously Calvin was a Quality Assurance Specialist/Software Development Engineer at PlayNetwork.