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| <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="Architecture_Overview.html#What_is_SMILA.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">What is SMILA?</span></a> |
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| <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="What_is_SMILA.3F">What is SMILA?</span></h2> |
| <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Introduction">Introduction</span></h3> |
| <p>SMILA is a <i>framework</i> for creating scalable server-side systems that process large amounts of unstructured data in order to build applications in the area of search, linguistic analysis, information mining or similar. The goal is to enable you to easily integrate data source connectors, search engines, sophisticated analysis methods and other components by gaining scalability and reliability out-of-the-box. |
| </p><p>As such, SMILA provides these main parts: |
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| <li> <a href="Documentation/JobManager.html" title="SMILA/Documentation/JobManager"><b>JobManager</b></a>: a system for asynchronous, scalable processing of data using configurable <i>workflows</i>. The system is able to reliably distribute the <i>tasks</i> to be done on big clusters of hosts. The workflows orchestrate easy-to-implement <i>workers</i> that can be used to integrate application-specific processing logic. |
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| <li> <a href="Documentation/Importing/Concept.html" title="SMILA/Documentation/Importing/Concept"><b>Crawlers</b></a>: concepts and basic implementations for scalable components that extract data from data sources. |
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| <li> <a href="Documentation/Pipelets.html" title="SMILA/Documentation/Pipelets"><b>Pipelines</b></a>: a system for processing synchronous requests (e.g. search requests) by orchestrating easy-to-implement components (<i>pipelets</i>) in workflows defined in BPEL. |
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| <li> <a href="Documentation/ObjectStore/Bundle_org.eclipse.smila.objectstore.html" title="SMILA/Documentation/ObjectStore/Bundle org.eclipse.smila.objectstore"><b>Storage</b></a>: concepts for integrating big-data storages for efficient persistence of the processed data. |
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| </ul> |
| <p>Eventually, all SMILA functionality is accessible for external clients via an <i>HTTP ReST API</i> using <i>JSON</i> as the exchange data format. |
| </p><p>As an Eclipse system, SMILA is built adhering to <i>OSGi</i> standard and makes a heavy use of the OSGi <i>service</i> component model. |
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| <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Architecture_Overview">Architecture Overview</span></h3> |
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| </p><p>A SMILA system consists of two distinguished parts: |
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| <li> First, data has to be imported into the system and processed to build an search index or extract an ontology or whatever can be learned from the data. |
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| <li> Second, the learned information is used to answer retrieval requests from users, for examples search or ontology exploration requests. |
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| </ul> |
| <p>In the first process usually some data source is crawled or an external client pushes the data from the source into the SMILA system using the HTTP ReST API. Often, the data consists of a large number of documents (e.g. a file system, web site, or content management system). To be processed, each document is represented in SMILA by a <i>record</i> describing the metadata of the document (name, size, access rights, authors, keywords...) and the original content of the document itself. |
| </p><p>To process large amounts of data, SMILA must be able to distribute the work to be done on multiple SMILA nodes (computers). Therefore, the <i>bulkbuilder</i> separates the incoming data into <i>bulks</i> of records of a configurable size and writes them to an ObjectStore. For each of these bulks, the <i>JobManager</i> creates <i>tasks</i> for <i>workers</i> to process them and produce other bulks containing the result of their operation. When such a worker is available, it asks the <i>TaskManager</i> for tasks to be done, does the work and finally notifies the TaskManager about the result. <i>Workflows</i> define which workers should process a bulk in what sequence. Whenever a worker finishes a task for a bulk successfully, the JobManager can create follow-up tasks based on such a workflow definition. In case a worker fails processing a task (because the process or machine crashes or because of a network problem), the JobManager can decide to retry the task later and so ensure that the data is processed even in problematic conditions. The processing of the complete data set using such a workflow is called a <i>job run</i>. The monitoring of the current state of such a job run is possible via the HTTP ReST API. |
| </p><p>JobManager and TaskManager use <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zookeeper.apache.org">Apache Zookeeper</a> to coordinate the state of a job run and the to-do and in-progress tasks over multiple computer nodes. Thereby the job processing is distributed and parallelized. |
| </p><p>To make implementing workers easy, the SMILA JobManager system contains the <i>WorkerManager</i> that enables you to concentrate on the actual worker functionality without having to worry about getting the TaskManager and ObjectStore interaction right. |
| </p><p>To extract large amounts of data from the data source, the asynchronous job framework can also be used to implement highly scalable <i>crawlers</i>. Crawling can be divided into several steps: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li> getting names of elements from the data source |
| </li> |
| <li> checking if the element has changed since a previous crawl run (delta check) |
| </li> |
| <li> getting the content of changed or new elements |
| </li> |
| <li> pushing the element to a processing job. |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>These steps can be implemented as separate workers too, so the crawl work can be parallelized and distributed quite easily. By using the JobManager to control the crawling, we also gain the same reliability and scalability for the crawling as for the processing. And implementing new crawlers is just as easy as implementing new workers. |
| </p><p>Eventually, the final step of such asynchronous processing workflow will write the processed data to some target system, for example a search engine or an ontology manager or a database where it can be used to process retrieval requests which are being handled by the second part of the system. Such requests are coming from an external client application via the HTTP ReST API. They are usually of a synchronous nature, meaning that a client sends a request and waits for the result so it can present it to the end user and therefore it expects the result to be produced rather quickly. On the other hand, we want to have a similar flexibility to configure the processing of such synchronous requests as we have for the asynchronous job processing. Therefore we use a different workflow processor here which is based on a BPEL engine. The BPEL workflows (we call them <i>pipelines</i>) in this processor orchestrate so-called <i>pipelets</i> to perform the different steps needed to enrich and refine the original requests and to produce the result. Implementing such a pipelet is probably even easier than implementing a worker ;-) |
| </p><p>Finally, it's even possible to combine both workflow variants because there is a <i>PipelineProcessing</i> worker in the asynchronous system performing a task by executing synchronous pipeline. So it's possible to implement only a pipelet and make the functionality available in both kinds of workflows. Additionally, there is a <i>PipeletProcessing</i> worker available which executes just a single pipelet and in that way saves the overhead of the synchronous workflow processor if one pipelet is sufficient to process the tasks. |
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| <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Want_to_know_more.3F">Want to know more?</span></h2> |
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| <li> See SMILA in action: <a href="Documentation_for_5_Minutes_to_Success.html" title="SMILA/Documentation for 5 Minutes to Success" class="mw-redirect">SMILA in 5 Minutes</a> |
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| <li> Read the <a href="Manual.html" title="SMILA/Manual" class="mw-redirect">Manual</a> |
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