Course Description | Course Outline | Hadoop & Accumulo Training | IT Training

1. Accumulo Background

• A history of NOSQL
• A survey of lightly structured stores
• Design drivers for Accumulo

2. Installation and startup (hands-on)

• Environment setup
• Basic Accumulo configuration
• Running process control scripts
• Using Accumulo administrative tools (shell and monitor)

3. Overview of Accumulo Architecture

• Defining the sorted Key/Value space
• Range selection and filtering
• Table/Tablet organization
• Processes and inter-process communication
• Control and data flow for read and write operations

4. API Introduction (hands-on)

• Keys, Values, and Mutations
• Instances and Connectors
• BatchWriter, Scanner, BatchScanner

5. Application Design (hands-on)

• Diagramming table schemas / flexible schemas
• Basic indexing theory
• Information retrieval design patterns
• Joins and pre-joins

6. Advanced Topics

• Hadoop ecosystem integration
• Relational operations on Accumulo
• Iterators

7. Advanced API

• Iterators
• Constraints
• Bulk load
• ACID/BASE semantics

8. Cell-level security

• Defining domain-specific authorizations
• Trust boundaries

9. Partition Management

• Column- and Row-orientation
• Row schemas
• Locality groups

10. Information retrieval

• Joins
• Document-distributed indexes
• Partitioned joins with the IntersectingIterator

11. Statistics

• OLAP cube shells
• Query-time vs. compaction-time aggregation

12. Additional Applications

• Graph search
• Machine learning
• Geohashing

13. Relationship to relational databases

• Data definition languages
• Pre-joined indexes

14. Custom iterators

• The SortedKeyValueIterator Interface
• Filters and Combiners
• Lookup Iterators and seeking

15. Performance optimization

• Hot spots and bottlenecks
• Managing parallelism
• Troubleshooting