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VulknData Eruptr

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Eruptr is an extensible, model and configuration driven data management system targeting ETL, DataOps and Analytics Engineering.

The initial target for Eruptr is the ClickHouse OLAP engine however it is being adapted and extended to address other modern data eco-systems.

Why

The main data processing mechanism is over untyped data using existing decades old Unix/Linux tools. One of the key goals of Eruptr in this regard is to force us to ask honest questions about existing data processing mechanisms. Do we need a heavy, Java-based system to process our data or does awk solve the problem for 95% of our data in 10% of the time? What about heavily typed data processing systems in Python that pass dictionaries or tuples around with mountains of code on Kubernetes? Is that necessary? Or could it be dealt with via grep on a micro instance?

Initial Release

The initial release is an alpha release. Tests have not been established and there are quirks/issues in some components or functionality that differs to the documentation. These issues will be rectified prior to Christmas 2020 with a proper production release in January 2021.

Roadmap

Generator modules with daemon mode
Scheduler/task controller with multi-processing schedulers
Engine support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, RedShift and Google BigQuery
Additional task, pipe and io modules
Analytics / Data Engineering projects
Database reflection with automatic model/schema migrations
A web UI for managing workflows
Analytics engineering workflows including documentation
Graph scheduling with multiple flows
Marrying eco-systems - Vulkn and the upcoming Vulkn Server

Documentation

Documentation is available at http://docs.vulkndata.io/eruptr/.

Installation

Eruptr has only been tested with recent versions of Ubuntu and Python 3.7. You will need to have a working Python 3.7.x environment with pip.

Ensure you have installed ClickHouse the clickhouse-client program including clickhouse-local:

sudo apt install clickhouse-client clickhouse-common

Installation with pip

Install Eruptr via pip.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y python3.7 python3.7-dev python3-pip
sudo python3.7 -m pip install eruptr

Installation from source (for developers)

Install Eruptr via git clone.

git clone https://github.com/VulknData/eruptr.git
cd eruptr

Install required packages. Note that it may make sense to do this within a virtual environment.

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can start using Eruptr via the eruptr script:

cd scripts
source env.sh
./eruptr --help

Getting Started

Let's use one of the provided examples. This assumes you have a ClickHouse server running on your local system listening on standard ports with no default credentials (default/empty password).

Create the following file - simple1.yaml:

name: Simple1 Batch Job
shard: clickhouse://localhost/test
workflow:
  - drop:
      executor: StepExecutor
  - create:
      executor: StepExecutor
      enabled: true
  - data:
      executor: StepExecutor
  - pre:
      executor: StepExecutor
      enabled: true
  - input:
      executor: UnixPipeExecutor
      enabled: true
  - post:
      executor: StepExecutor
  - clean:
      executor: StepExecutor
data:
  - tasks.file.write:
      path: system_metrics.csv
      data: |
        "device1","1970-04-27 03:46:40",32.3,"temperature"
        "device1","1970-04-27 03:46:40",10.2,"watts"
  - tasks.pack.gz:
      input_file: system_metrics.csv
      output_file: system_metrics.csv.gz
pre:
  - TRUNCATE TABLE simple1.system_metrics
input:
  - io.file.read: system_metrics.csv.gz
  - pipes.unpack.gz
  - io.clickhouse.write:
      table: simple1.system_metrics
      format: formats.clickhouse.CSV
post:
  - tasks.file.delete: system_metrics.csv.gz
create:
  - CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS simple1
  - |
    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS simple1.system_metrics
    (
      device String,
      epoch_dt DateTime,
      value Float32,
      tag String
    ) ENGINE = Log
clean:
  - DROP TABLE IF EXISTS simple1.system_metrics
  - DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS simple1

First lets generate some test data:

eruptr load --conf simple1.yaml --log-level INFO --flows data

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GPLv3 - see https://github.com/VulknData/eruptr/COPYING

12/01/2020 09:14:40 PM - INFO - Rendering configuration
12/01/2020 09:14:40 PM - INFO - Running "Simple1 Batch Job"
12/01/2020 09:14:40 PM - INFO - Executing data section
12/01/2020 09:14:40 PM - INFO - StepExecutor: tasks.file.write({'path': 'system_metrics.csv', 'data': '"device1","1970-04-27 03:46:40",32.3,"temperature"\n"device1","1970-04-27 03:46:40",10.2,"watts"\n'}) -> tasks.pack.gz({'input_file': 'system_metrics.csv', 'output_file': 'system_metrics.csv.gz'})
12/01/2020 09:14:40 PM - INFO - Successfully completed "Simple1 Batch Job"

OK - Simple1 Batch Job - SUCCESS

Using the --flows option we've told eruptr to execute the data flow only.

Great. This has provided us with a simple dataset we can import. If we don't specify any flows eruptr automatically runs only the enabled workflows in the order they're defined (create, pre and input).

eruptr load --conf simple1.yaml --log-level INFO

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GPLv3 - see https://github.com/VulknData/eruptr/COPYING

12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - Rendering configuration
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - Running "Simple1 Batch Job"
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - Executing create section
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - StepExecutor: tasks.clickhouse.execute(CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS simple1) -> tasks.clickhouse.execute(CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS simple1.system_metrics ( device String, epoch_dt DateTime, value Float32, tag String ) ENGINE = Log )
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - Executing pre section
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - StepExecutor: tasks.clickhouse.execute(TRUNCATE TABLE simple1.system_metrics)
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - Executing input section
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - UnixPipeExecutor: <function read at 0x7f9e0d61ed90>(run='system_metrics.csv.gz', connection='clickhouse://localhost/test' | <function <lambda> at 0x7f9e0d62bd08>(run='None', connection='clickhouse://localhost/test' | <function write at 0x7f9e0d61ed08>(connection='clickhouse://localhost/test', table='simple1.system_metrics', format='formats.clickhouse.CSV'
12/01/2020 09:24:04 PM - INFO - Successfully completed "Simple1 Batch Job"

OK - Simple1 Batch Job - SUCCESS

And what can we see in ClickHouse?

hulk :) select * from simple1.system_metrics format CSV;

SELECT *
FROM simple1.system_metrics
FORMAT CSV

Query id: f4c471b1-f32a-4636-8e62-d923e5dc10c4

"device1","1970-04-27 03:46:40",32.3,"temperature"
"device1","1970-04-27 03:46:40",10.2,"watts"

2 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.005 sec.

Perfect. So eruptr has created the necessary database, then table(s) and then extracted and loaded our data.

This is a trivial example though. Explore the documentation further to see how you can create complex workflows with everything from custom shell commands to embedded Python all driven by simple YAML. Or combine Mako and Jinja to create re-usable macros for processing your data.