Cascading 2 User Guide
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Cascading 2 User Guide

Concurrent, Inc.

October 2012

Table of Contents

1. About Cascading

1.1. What is Cascading?

1.2. Usage Scenarios

Why use Cascading?
Who are the users?

1.3. What is Apache Hadoop?

2. Diving In

3. Data Processing

3.1. Terminology

3.2. Pipe Assemblies

Pipe Assembly Workflow
Common Stream Patterns
Data Processing

3.3. Pipes

Types of Pipes
The Each and Every Pipes
Merge
GroupBy
CoGroup
HashJoin
Setting Custom Pipe Properties

3.4. Platforms

3.5. Source and Sink Taps

Schemes
Taps

3.6. Sink modes

3.7. Fields Sets

3.8. Flows

Creating Flows from Pipe Assemblies
Configuring Flows
Skipping Flows
Creating Flows from a JobConf
Creating Custom Flows

3.9. Cascades

4. Executing Processes on Hadoop

4.1. Introduction
4.2. Building
4.3. Configuring
4.4. Executing

5. Using and Developing Operations

5.1. Introduction
5.2. Functions
5.3. Filter
5.4. Aggregator
5.5. Buffer
5.6. Operation and BaseOperation

6. Custom Taps and Schemes

6.1. Introduction
6.2. Custom Taps
6.3. Custom Schemes

7. Advanced Processing

7.1. SubAssemblies
7.2. Stream Assertions
7.3. Failure Traps
7.4. Checkpointing
7.5. Event Handling
7.6. Template taps
7.7. Partial Aggregation instead of Combiners

8. Built-In Operations

8.1. Identity Function
8.2. Debug Function
8.3. Sample and Limit Functions
8.4. Insert Function
8.5. Text Functions
8.6. Regular Expression Operations
8.7. Java Expression Operations
8.8. XML Operations
8.9. Assertions
8.10. Logical Filter Operators

9. Built-in Assemblies

9.1. AggregateBy

AverageBy
CountBy
SumBy

10. Best Practices

10.1. Unit Testing
10.2. Flow Granularity
10.3. SubAssemblies, not Factories
10.4. Logical Responsibilities for SubAssemblies
10.5. Java Operators in Field Names
10.6. Debugging Planner Failures
10.7. Optimizing Joins
10.8. Debugging Streams
10.9. Handling Good and Bad Data
10.10. Maintaining State in Operations
10.11. Custom Types
10.12. Fields Constants
10.13. Checking the Source Code

11. Extending Cascading

11.1. Scripting
11.2. Custom Types and Serialization
11.3. Custom Comparators and Hashing

12. Cookbook

12.1. Tuples and Fields
12.2. Stream Shaping
12.3. Common Operations
12.4. Stream Ordering
12.5. API Usage

13. How It Works

13.1. MapReduce Job Planner
13.2. The Cascade Topological Scheduler