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<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 2:33 AM Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > following up the [DISCUSS] thread on Wayang ( > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5fc03ae014f44c7c31a509a6db4ac07faedb2e1c6245cd917b744826%40%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E) > I would like to call a VOTE to accept Wayang Aka Rheem into the Apache > Incubator. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1, bring Wayang into the Incubator > [ ] +0, I don't care either way > [ ] -1, do not bring Wayang into the Incubator, because... > > The vote will open at least for 72 hours and only votes from the Incubator > PMC are binding, but votes from everyone are welcome. > > Chris > > ----- > > Wayang Proposal ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/WayangProposal) > > == Abstract == > > Wayang is a cross-platform data processing system that aims at decoupling > the business logic of data analytics applications from concrete data > processing platforms, such as Apache Flink or Apache Spark. Hence, it tames > the complexity that arises from the "Cambrian explosion" of novel data > processing platforms that we currently witness. > > Note that Wayang project is the Rheem project, but we have renamed the > project because of trademark issues. > > You can find the project web page at: https://rheem-ecosystem.github.io/ > > = Proposal = > > Wayang is a cross-platform system that provides an abstraction over data > processing platforms to free users from the burdens of (i) performing > tedious and costly data migration and integration tasks to run their > applications, and (ii) choosing the right data processing platforms for > their applications. To achieve this, Wayang: (1) provides an abstraction on > top of existing data processing platforms that allows users to specify > their data analytics tasks in a form of a DAG of operators; (2) comes with > a cross-platform optimizer for automating the selection of > suitable/efficient platforms; and (3) and finally takes care of executing > the optimized plan, including communication across platforms. In summary, > Wayang has the following salient features: > > - Flexible Data Model - It considers a flexible and simple data model > based on data quanta. A data quantum is an atomic processing unit in the > system, that can represent a large spectrum of data formats, such as data > points for a machine learning application, tuples for a database > application, or RDF triples. Hence, Wayang is able to express a wide range > of data analytics tasks. > - Platform independence - It provides a simple interface (currently Java > and Scala) that is inspired by established programming models, such as that > of Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Users represent their data analytic tasks > as a DAG (Wayang plan), where vertices correspond to Wayang operators and > edges represent data flows (data quanta flowing) among these operators. A > Wayang operator defines a particular kind of data transformation over an > input data quantum, ranging from basic functionality (e.g., > transformations, filters, joins) to complex, extensible tasks (e.g., > PageRank). > - Cross-platform execution - Besides running a data analytic task on any > data processing platform, it also comes with an optimizer that can decide > to execute a single data analytic task using multiple data processing > platforms. This allows for exploiting the capabilities of different data > processing platforms to perform complex data analytic tasks more > efficiently. > Self-tuning UDF-based cost model - Its optimizer uses a cost model fully > based on UDFs. This not only enables Wayang to learn the cost functions of > newly added data processing platforms, but also allows developers to tune > the optimizer at will. > - Extensibility - It treats data processing platforms as plugins to allow > users (developers) to easily incorporate new data processing platforms into > the system. This is achieved by exposing the functionalities of data > processing platforms as operators (execution operators). The same approach > is followed at the Wayang interface, where users can also extend Wayang > capabilities, i.e., the operators, easily. > > We plan to work on the stability of all these features as well as > extending Wayang with more advanced features. Furthermore, Wayang currently > supports Apache Spark, Standalone Java, GraphChi, relational databases (via > JDBC). We plan to incorporate more data processing platforms, such as > Apache Flink and Apache Hive. > > === Background === > > Many organizations and companies collect or produce large variety of data > to apply data analytics over them. This is because insights from data > rapidly allow them to make better decisions. Thus, the pursuit for > efficient and scalable data analytics as well as the > one-size-does-not-fit-all philosophy has given rise to a plethora of data > processing platforms. Examples of these specialized processing platforms > range from DBMSs to MapReduce-like platforms. > > However, today's data analytics are moving beyond the limits of a single > data processing platform. More and more applications need to perform > complex data analytics over several data processing platforms. For example, > IBM reported that North York hospital needs to process 50 diverse datasets, > which are on a dozen different internal systems, (ii) oil & gas companies > stated they need to process large amounts of data they produce everyday, > e.g., a single oil company can produce more than 1.5TB of diverse > (structured and unstructured) data per day, (iii) Fortune magazine stated > that airlines need to analyze large datasets, which are produced by > different departments, are of different data formats, and reside on > multiple data sources, to produce global reports for decision makers, and > (iv) Hewlett Packard has claimed that, according to its customer portfolio, > business intelligence typically require a single analytics pipeline using > different processing platforms at different parts of the pipeline. These > are just a few examples of emerging applications that require a diversity > of data processing platforms. > > Today, developers have to deal with this myriad of data processing > platforms. That is, they have to choose the right data processing platform > for their applications (or data analytic tasks) and to familiarize with the > intricacies of the different platforms to achieve high efficiency and > scalability. Several systems have also appeared with the goal of helping > users to easily glue several platforms together, such as Apache Drill, > PrestoDB, and Luigi. Nevertheless, all these systems still require quite > good expertise from users to decide which data processing platforms to use > for the data analytic task at hand. In consequence, great engineering > effort is required to unify the data from various sources, to combine the > processing capabilities of different platforms, and to maintain those > applications, so as to unleash the full potential of the data. In the worst > case, such applications are not built in the first place, as it seems too > much of a daunting endeavor. > > === Rationale === > > It is evident that there is an urgent need to release developers from the > burden of knowing all the intricacies of choosing and glueing together data > processing platforms for supporting their applications (data analytic > tasks). Developers must focus only on the logics of their applications. > Surprisingly, there is no open source system trying to satisfy this urgent > need. Wayang aims at filling this gap. It copes with this urgent need by > providing both a common interface over data processing platforms and an > optimizer to execute data analytic tasks on the right data processing > platform(s) seamlessly. As Apache is the place where most of the important > big data systems are, we then consider Apache as the right place for Wayang. > > === Current Status === > > The current version of Wayang (v0.5.0) was initially co-developed by > staff, students, and interns at the Qatar Computing Research Institute > (QCRI) and the Hasso-Plattner Institute (HPI). The project was initiated at > and sponsored by QCRI in 2015 with the goal of freeing data scientists and > developers from the intricacies of data processing platforms to support > their analytic tasks. The first open source release of Wayang was made only > one year and a half later, in June 13th of 2016, under the Apache Software > License 2.0. Since we have made several releases, the latest release was > done on January 23th, 2019. > > ** Meritocracy ** > > All current Wayang developers are familiar with this development process > at Apache and are currently trying to follow this meritocracy process as > much as possible. For example, Wayang already follows a committer principle > where any pull request is analyzed by at least one Wayang core developer. > This was one of the reasons for choosing Apache for Wayang as we all want > to encourage and keep this style of development for Wayang. > > ** Community ** > > Wayang started as a pure research project, but it quickly started > developing into a community. People from HPI quickly joined our efforts > almost from the very beginning to make this project a reality. Recently, > the Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) and the Pontifical Catholic > University of Valparaiso (PUCV) in Chile have also joined our efforts for > developing Wayang. A company, called Scalytics, has been created around > Wayang. Currently, we are intensively seeking to further develop both > developer and user communities. To keep broadening the community, we plan > to also exploit our ongoing academic collaborations with multiple > universities in Berlin and companies that we collaborate with. For > instance, Wayang is already being utilized for accessing multiple data > sources in the context of a large data analytics project led by TU Berlin > and Huawei. We also believe that Wayang's extensible architecture (i.e., > adding new operators and platforms) will further encourage community > participation. During incubation we plan to have Wayang adopted by at least > one company and will explicitly seek more industrial participation. > > ** Core Developers ** > > The initial developers of the project are diverse, they are from four > different institutions (TU Berlin, Scalytics, PUCV, and HBKU). We will work > aggressively to grow the community during the incubation by recruiting more > developers from other institutions. > > ** Alignment ** > > We believe Apache is the most natural home for taking Wayang to the next > level. Apache is currently hosting the most important big data systems. > Hadoop, Spark, Flink, HBase, Hive, Tez, Reef, Storm, Drill, and Ignite are > just some examples of these technologies. Wayang fills a significant gap - > it provides a common abstraction for all these platforms and decides on > which platforms to run a single data analytic task - that exist in the big > data open source world. Wayang is now being developed following the > Apache-style development model. Also, it is well-aligned with the Apache > principle of building a community to impact the big data community. > > === Known Risks === > > ** Orphaned Products ** > > Currently, Wayang is the core technology behind Scalytics inc.. As a > result, a team of two engineers are working on a full time basis on this > project. Recently, three more developers have joined our efforts in > building Wayang. Thus, the risk of Wayang becoming orphaned is relatively > very low. Still, people outside Scalytics (from TU Berlin and HBKU) have > also joined the project, which makes the risk of abandoning the project > even lower. The PUCV in Chile is also beginning to contribute to the code > base and to develop a declarative query language on top of Wayang. The > project is constantly being monitored by email and frequent Skype meetings > as well as by weekly meetings with Scalytics people. Additionally, at the > end of each year, we meet to discuss the status of the project as well as > to plan the most important aspects we should work on during the year after. > > ** Inexperience with Open Source ** > > Wayang quickly started being developed in open source under the Apache > Software License 2.0. The source code is available on Github. Also few of > the initial committers have contributed to other open source projects: > Hadoop and Flume > > ** Homogeneous Developers ** > > The initial committers are already geographically distributed among Chile, > Germany, and Qatar. During incubation, one of our main goals is to increase > the heterogeneity of the current community and we will work hard to achieve > it. > > ** Reliance on salaried developers ** > > Wayang is already being developed by a mix of full time and volunteer > time. Only 2 of the initial committers are working full time on this > project (Scalytics). So, we are confident that the project will not > decrease its development pace. Furthermore, we are committed to recruit > additional committers to significantly increase the development pace of the > project. > > ** Relationships with other Apache products ** > > Wayang is somehow related to Apache Spark as its developing interface is > inspired from Spark. In contrast to Spark, Wayang is not a data processing > platform, but a mediator between user applications and data processing > platforms. In this sense, Wayang is similar to the Apache Drill project, > and Apache Beam. However, Wayang significantly differs from Apache Drill in > two main aspects. First, Apache Drill provides only a common interface to > query multiple data storages and hence users have to specify in their query > the data to fetch. Then, Apache Drill translates the query to the > processing platforms where the data is stored, e.g. into mongoDB query > representation. In contrast, in Wayang, users only specify the data path > and Wayang decides which are the best (performance-wise) data processing > platforms to use to process such data. Second, the query interface in > Apache Drill is SQL. Wayang uses an interface based on operators forming > DAGs. In this latter point, we are currently developing a PIGLatin-like > query language for Wayang. In addition, in contrast to Apache Beam, Wayang > not only allows users to use multiple data processing platforms at the same > time, but also it provides an optimizer to choose the most efficient > platform for the task at hand. In Apache Beam, users have to specify an > appropriate runner (platform). > Given these similarities with the two Apache projects mentioned above, we > are looking forward to collaborating with those communities. Still, we are > open and would also love to collaborate with other Apache communities as > well. > ** An excessive fascination with the Apache Brand ** > > Wayang solves a real problem that currently users and developers have to > deal with at a high cost: monetary cost, high design and development > efforts, and very time consuming. Therefore, we believe that Wayang can be > successful in building a large community around it. We are convinced that > the Apache brand and community process will significantly help us in > building such a community and to establish the project in the long-term. We > simply believe that ASF is the right home for Wayang to achieve this. > > === Documentation === > > Further details, documentation, and publications related to Wayang can be > found at https://docs.rheem.io/rheem/ > > === Initial Source === > > The current source code of Wayang resides in Github: > https://github.com/rheem-ecosystem/rheem > > === External Dependencies === > > Wayang depends on the following Apache projects: > > * Maven > * HDFS > * Hadoop > * Spark > > Wayang depends on the following other open source projects organized by > license: > > org.json.json: Json (http://json.org/license.html) > SnakeYAML: Apache 2.0 > Java Unified Expression Language API (Juel): Apache 2.0 > ProfileDB Instrumentation: Apache 2.0 > Gson: Apache 2.0 > Hadoop: Apache 2.0 > Scala: Apache 2.0 > Antlr 4: BSD > Jackson: Apache 2.0 > Junit 5: EPL 2.0 > Mockito: MIT > Assertj: Apache 2.0 > logback-classic: EPL 1.0 LGPL 2.1 > slf4j: MIT > GNU Trove: LGPL 2.1 > graphchi: Apache 2.0 > SQLite JDBC: Apache 2.0 > PostgreSQL: BSD 2-clause > jcommander: Apache 2.0 > Koloboke Collections API: Apache 2.0 > Snappy Java: Apache 2.0 > Apache Spark: Apache 2.0 > HyperSQL Database: BSD Modified (http://hsqldb.org/web/hsqlLicense.html) > Apache Giraph: Apache 2.0 > Apache Flink: Apache 2.0 > Apache Commons IO: Apache 2.0 > Apache Commons Lang: Apache 2.0 > Apache Maven: Apache 2.0 > > === Cryptography === > > (not applicable) > > === Required Resources === > > ** Mailing Lists ** > > * mailto:priv...@wayang.incubator.apache.org > * mailto:d...@wayang.incubator.apache.org > * mailto:comm...@wayang.incubator.apache.org > > ** Git repositories ** > > git://git.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wayang > > ** Issue tracking ** > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RHEEM > > === Initial Committers === > > The following list gives the planned initial committers (in alphabetical > order): > > * Bertty Contreras-Rojas <bertty@http://scalytics.io> > * Rodrigo Pardo-Meza <rodrigo@http://scalytics.io> > * Alexander Alten-Lorenz <alo@http://scalytics.io> > * Zoi Kaoudi <zoi.kaoudi@http://tu-berlin.de> > * Haralampos Gavriilidis <gavriilidis@http://tu-berlin.de> > * Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz <jorge.quiane@http://tu-berlin.de> > * Anis Troudi <atroudi@http://hbku.edu.qa> > * Wenceslao Palma-Muñoz <wenceslao.palma@http://pucv.cl> > > ** Affiliations ** > > * Scalytics Inc. > ** Bertty Contreras-Rojas > ** Rodrigo Pardo-Meza > ** Alexander Alten-Lorenz > * Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) > ** Zoi Kaoudi > ** Haralampos Gavriilidis > ** Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz > * Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) > ** Anis Troudi > * Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile (PUCV) > ** Wenceslao Palma-Muñoz > > === Sponsors === > > ** Champion ** > > * Christofer Dutz (christofer.dutz at c-ware dot de) > > ** Mentors ** > > . 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