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Decoupling storage and compute enables independent resource scaling
“You can separate your storage cluster as well as your compute cluster, which enable you to scale your compute cluster as well as your storage cluster independently.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 10:05 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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Baidu queries data 30 times faster using Alluxio
“They're coring data 30 times faster with Aluxio.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 11:19 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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Barclays accelerated Spark jobs from hours to seconds using Alluxio
“They used Tachyon to accelerate Spark jobs from hours to seconds”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 12:03 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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Alluxio was deployed at over 100 companies by April 2016
“And it's deployed at more than a hundred companies nowadays.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 2:08 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
Alluxio open-source project reaches nearly 250 contributors across 50 organizations
“We have close to 250 contributors to the developers contributing to this project. It's about three times growth over the last year, and we have over 50 organizations are contributing to this project as well.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 2:31 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Partly supported
DRAM costs decrease by 50% every 18 months
“Every 18 months, the DRAM cost decreased about 50%.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 4:42 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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Baidu manages over two petabytes in memory across 200 nodes using Alluxio
“They manage more than two, 200 nodes in this deployment with more than two petabytes of memory managed space inside Alluxio. And this has been in production for more than a year.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 11:39 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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Impala on Alluxio over Amazon S3 yields a 15x performance gain
“And there's another one, you run Impala on top of Aluxio, Aluxio on top of Amazon S III. They have a 15 times performance improvement in this case.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 13:31 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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Databricks founding CEO Ion Stoica was Haoyuan Li's PhD co-advisor
“Yang, who, who's the founding CEO of Databricks, he's my PhD co-advisor.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 20:25 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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