BDGS: A scalable big data generator suite in big data benchmarking

Zijian Ming, Chunjie Luo, Wanling Gao, Rui Han, Qiang Yang, Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan*

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Abstract

Data generation is a key issue in big data benchmarking that aims to generate application-specific data sets to meet the 4V requirements of big data. Specifically, big data generators need to generate scalable data (Volume) of different types (Variety) under controllable generation rates (Velocity) while keeping the important characteristics of raw data (Veracity). This gives rise to various new challenges about how we design generators efficiently and successfully. To date, most existing techniques can only generate limited types of data and support specific big data systems such as Hadoop. Hence we develop a tool, called Big Data Generator Suite (BDGS), to efficiently generate scalable big data while employing data models derived from real data to preserve data veracity. The effectiveness of BDGS is demonstrated by developing six data generators covering three representative data types (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) and three data sources (text, graph, and table data).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvancing Big Data Benchmarks - Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop Series on Big Data Benchmarking WBDB.cn and WBDB.us, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMeikel Poess, Tilmann Rabl, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Chaitanya Baru, Nambiar Raghunath, Milind Bhandarkar
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages138-154
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9783319105956
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 Workshop Series on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB.cn and WBDB.us. - Boston, United States
Duration: 14 Sept 201418 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8585
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2013 Workshop Series on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB.cn and WBDB.us.
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period14/09/1418/09/14

Keywords

  • Benchmark
  • Big data
  • Data generator
  • Scalable
  • Veracity

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