Accumulo

Preface

Goals and Audience

We have designed this book to gather in a single place our community’s collective knowledge of how best to use Apache Accumulo. This includes some history and background on the Accumulo project, how to configure and tune an Accumulo instance, and much about how to write applications using Accumulo. This book should help you get started with Accumulo, as well as provide a reference for those already familiar with it.

Those new to distributed applications will find an overview of why data stores such as Accumulo have become popular in recent years. People looking to write applications using Accumulo will find detailed information about its API as well as common design patterns and motivations behind various uses of Accumulo. Administrators of Accumulo will learn basic through advanced configuration options, including tips for tuning Accumulo for better performance. Even experienced Accumulo users are likely to find some information in these pages that they have not encountered before.

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Using Code Examples

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our technical reviewers, Josh Elser, Eric Newton, and Christopher Tubbs, without whom this book would have been less accurate and more difficult to read. We would also like to thank the many people who gave us feedback on this book, including but not limited to Sterling Foster, Alan Mangan, Jeremy Kepner, Tessa Cordova, David Barker, Al Krinker, Alex Moundalexis, Clint Green, David Perry, Christina Wall, and Rebecca Derry.

Thanks also to GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota for use of the MovieLens data set for our examples.

Finally, we would like to thank the Apache Accumulo community—all the developers and users who have contributed to making Accumulo a fantastically stable, fast, and useful data store.