Tuesday, 02 October 2018

Segmented Data Containers: Distributed Stream Performance Boost

Welcome to the first of several blog posts that describe the segmentation of containers that Infinispan uses to store data. Some of you may have noticed in the previous 9.3.0.Final notes that we announced a new feature named “Segmented On-Heap Data Container”. We also mentioned that “It improves performance of stream operations”, but what does that really mean?

What is a segmented data container and why does it matter? 

Imagine a cluster of 4 nodes in distributed mode (numOwners = 2) with entries for k0 - k13. It might look like this:

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The data is distributed between the nodes with only two copies of each entry available. However, the data itself is stored internally in the same Map instance. As a result, when performing operations on all entries in the cache, Infinispan must iterate over the same data multiple times. This degrades performance.

As of Infinispan 9.3, a segmented data container is available to separate data by segments. Although only on-heap bounded and unbounded implementations are currently available.

With a segmented data container, that same data set might look like this:

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Because Infinispan internally reasons on data in terms of segments, a segmented data container lets Infinispan process data only in specific segments. This allows for operations performed upon all entries to require iteration over the data only once.

Actual Performance Difference

So with the above example you might be thinking that the performance increase maximum is two times throughput, since numOwners is two. This is close, but not quite correct. While iterating on the data we also have to determine what segment an entry belongs to. With a segmented container we know this already, so there is no need to calculate that. This provides additional performance, as you will see.

The following graphs were generated using the benchmark at https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan-benchmarks/tree/master/iteration. The following command was run: java -jar target/benchmarks.jar -pvalueObjectSize=1000 -pentryAmount=50000 -pbatchSize=4096

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The preceding graph is the result of the iteration methods. As you can notice the performance increase isn’t that much… why not?!?

Unfortunately, remote iteration requires a lot of network overhead, so we don’t get to see the full benefits of segmentation. But at least it is about 5-12% faster, not too shabby.

Now to show the real improvement, here is the chart showing the performance increase for the Cache#size operation:

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If you notice there is huge increase in performance: almost a three fold increase over the non-segmented container, even though numOwners is only two. The old segment calculation adds a bit of overhead compared to just incrementing a number.

So keep in mind this change will show a larger gain in performance if the result returned is smaller, especially if it is a fixed size, such as a single int for Cache#size.

What about gets and puts?

Having the container segmented should also affect get and put performance as well, right? In testing the difference for get and puts are less than one percent, in favor of segmentation due to some optimizations we were able to add.

How do I enable this?

So the performance gains are noticeable, especially when the remote operation returns a small data set. But how can a user configure this? This is the nice part, due to no performance loss with other operations the container will always be segmented as long as the cache mode supports segmentation. That is if it is a Distributed, Replicated or Scattered cache.

A real-life example and closing

Since this feature has been around a while already, we actually have users gaining benefits from this feature. An example can be found at https://developer.jboss.org/message/983837#983837. In this case the user only upgraded to Infinispan 9.3 and received over a three-fold increase in performance when using distributed streams. It actually starts to bring distributed streams performance within range of indexed query for some use cases.

So, by upgrading your application to Infinispan 9.3 or newer, you will benefit from these improvements. There will be future posts regarding segmentation, including support for stores. Either way please feel free to download Infinispan, report bugs, chat with us, ask questions on the forum or on StackOverflow.

Posted by Unknown on 2018-10-02
Tags: streams segmented data container performance

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