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benbjohnson
October 24, 2012
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A presentation I gave at the Derailed meetup in Denver on October 24th, 2012.
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Transcript
Behavioral Databases Next Generation NoSQL Analytics By Ben Johnson
My Background
Former Oracle DBA
Former Oracle DBA Behavioral Analytics
Former Oracle DBA Data Visualization Behavioral Analytics
Why did I write a database?
Other Databases Are Too Slow Redis 100K ops/second PostgreSQL 5K
QPS/core
Processing Needed to Occur Near Data Client Server 1ms 1ms
Processing Needed to Occur Near Data Client Server 1ms 1ms
1ms 1ms
Processing Needed to Occur Near Data Client Server 1ms 1ms
1ms 1ms 1ms 1ms
Processing Needed to Occur Near Data Client Server 1ms 1ms
1ms 1ms 1ms 1ms 1ms 1ms
Processing Needed to Occur Near Data
Memory is getting cheap. Use it. 2010 $20/GB http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
Memory is getting cheap. Use it. 2011 $10/GB 2010 $20/GB
http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
Memory is getting cheap. Use it. 2012 $5/GB 2011 $10/GB
2010 $20/GB http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
Traditional Databases Have a Lot Of Features I Don’t Need
Locks & Latches
Transactions
Traditional Databases are Limited to Simple Data Access Key/Value Tabular
Traditional Databases are Limited to Simple Data Access Key/Value Tabular
(Boring)
Traditional Databases Are Not Real-Time
Basics of Behavioral Data
Actions
Actions & State
Actions & State + Time
Clickstream Logs Sensor Data Financial Transactions IVR
Important Differences In Behavioral Data
Behavioral Data is Historical
Behavioral Data is Isolated
Isolated = Concurrency
Performance / Internals
Aggregates 100M events / sec / core
Optimizations Stored by object then time Memory mapped Easy, compact
data format
Simplicity Supports Int64, Double, String & Bool MessagePack Encoded C99,
No Dependencies
Writing Your Own Language (Tangent)
EQL (Event Query Language)
EQL (Event Query Language)
Qip
Qip (Doesn’t stand for anything)
What is Qip? * LLVM-backed query processing language. * JIT
compiled on the fly. * As fast as C. * Removed from build because of complexity.
GitHub Archive Visualizer (Demo)
Ruby to Sky Integration
Add Event SkyDB.add_event( new Event( object_id:1, timestamp: Time.now, action: “/sign_up”,
data: { name: “John”, age: 20 } ) )
Next Actions SkyDB.next_actions( [ “/”, “/sign_up”, “/checkout” ] )
What’s Next For Sky?
More Analytics Functions!
Cohort Analysis 1 2 3 4 5 Jan 80% 70%
65% 63% 62% Feb 83% 73% 70% 69% Mar 87% 78% 75% Apr 89% 80% May 90% Month Signed Up Months After Signing Up
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Awesome Open Source Analytics Tools It’s like MixPanel that you
can install!
Modules!
Predictive Behavioral Analytics What will your users do next?
Risk Analysis
Anomaly Dectection / Fraud Detection
Questions?
Contact Info @benbjohnson
[email protected]