Bulk Loading in the Wild: Ingesting the World's Energy Data

Speakers: Eric Chang (Opower) and Jean-Daniel Cryans (Cloudera) HBase is designed to store your big data and provide low latency random access to that data. One of its most compelling features is Bulk Loading, which enables the generation of HFiles that can then be passed to the RegionServers. Opower's energy insights platform uses it to ingest the hundreds of millions of meter reads it receives daily from its partner utility companies. This presentation will walk you through the HBase Bulk Loading process and Opower's adoption of it as an important piece of its HBase ecosystem.