Summingbird

Summingbird is a library that lets you write MapReduce programs that look like native Scala or Java collection transformations and execute them on a number of well-known distributed MapReduce platforms, including Storm and Scalding.

While a word-counting aggregation in pure Scala might look like this:

  def wordCount(source: Iterable[String], store: MutableMap[String, Long]) =
    source.flatMap { sentence =>
      toWords(sentence).map(_ -> 1L)
    }.foreach { case (k, v) => store.update(k, store.get(k) + v) }

Counting words in Summingbird looks like this:

  def wordCount[P <: Platform[P]]
    (source: Producer[P, String], store: P#Store[String, Long]) =
      source.flatMap { sentence =>
        toWords(sentence).map(_ -> 1L)
      }.sumByKey(store)

The logic is exactly the same, and the code is almost the same. The main difference is that you can execute the Summingbird program in "batch mode" (using Scalding), in "realtime mode" (using Storm), or on both Scalding and Storm in a hybrid batch/realtime mode that offers your application very attractive fault-tolerance properties.

Summingbird provides you with the primitives you need to build rock solid production systems.

Community and Documentation

To learn more and find links to tutorials and information around the web, check out the Summingbird Wiki.

The latest ScalaDocs are hosted on Summingbird's Github Project Page.

Discussion occurs primarily on the Summingbird mailing list. To join the mailing list, email summingbird@librelist.com. The same address is used for posting once you've joined. Issues should be reported on the GitHub issue tracker. Simpler issues appropriate for first-time contributors looking to help out are tagged "newbie".

Follow @summingbird on Twitter for updates.

Maven

Summingbird modules are published on maven central. The current groupid and version for all modules is, respectively, "com.twitter" and 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.

Current published artifacts are

• summingbird-core_2.9.3
• summingbird-core_2.10
• summingbird-batch_2.9.3
• summingbird-batch_2.10
• summingbird-client_2.9.3
• summingbird-client_2.10
• summingbird-kryo_2.9.3
• summingbird-kryo_2.10
• summingbird-storm_2.9.3
• summingbird-storm_2.10
• summingbird-scalding_2.9.3
• summingbird-scalding_2.10
• summingbird-builder_2.9.3
• summingbird-builder_2.10

The suffix denotes the scala version.

Authors

• Oscar Boykin https://twitter.com/posco
• Sam Ritchie https://twitter.com/sritchie
• Ashutosh Singhal https://twitter.com/daashu

License

Copyright 2013 Twitter, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0