Debugging Big Data Analytics in Apache Spark with BigDebug Matteo Interlandi and Muhammad Ali Gulzar
1,387 views · Published 8 June 2017 · 31:04 · Indexed 29 September 2026
Channel: Databricks · 2017 · Science & Technology
"Debugging big data analytics in Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC) systems is a time-consuming effort. Today’s DISC systems offer very little tooling for debugging and, as a result, programmers spend countless hours analyzing log files and performing trial and error debugging. To aid this effort, UCLA developed BigDebug, an interactive debugging tool and automated fault localization service to help Apache Spark developers in debugging big data analytics. To emulate interactive step-wise debugging without reducing throughput, BigDebug provides simulated breakpoints that enable a user to inspect a program without actually pausing the entire distributed computation. It also supports on-demand watchpoints that enable a user to retrieve intermediate data using a guard predicate and transfer the selected data on demand. To understand the flow of individual records within a pipeline of RDD transformations, BigDebug provides data provenance capability, which can help understand how errors propagate through data processing steps. To support efficient trial-and-error debugging, BigDebug enables users to change program logic in response to an error at runtime through a realtime code fix feature, and selectively replay the execution from that step. Finally, BigDebug proposes an automated fault localization service that leverages all the above features together to isolate failure-inducing inputs, diagnose the root cause of an error, and resume the workflow for only affected data and code. The BigDebug system should contribute to improving Spark developerproductivity and the correctness of their Big Data applications. This big data debugging effort is led by UCLA Professors Miryung Kim and Tyson Condie, and produced several research papers in top Software Engineering and Database conferences. The current version of BigDebug is publicly available at https://sites.google.com/site/sparkbigdebug/. Session hashtag: #SFr8" About: Databricks provides a unified data analytics platform, powered by Apache Spark™, that accelerates innovation by unifying data science, engineering and business. Read more here: https://databricks.com/product/unified-data-analytics-platform Connect with us: Website: https://databricks.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc Twitter: https://twitter.com/databricks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc/ Databricks is proud to announce that Gartner has named us a Leader in both the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Download the reports here. https://databricks.com/databricks-named-leader-by-gartner
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