Fine-grained data-locality aware MapReduce job scheduler in a virtualized environment

Big data overwhelmed industries and research sectors. Reliable decision making is always a challenging task, which requires cost-effective big data processing tools. Hadoop MapReduce is being used to store and process huge volume of data in a distributed environment. However, due to huge capital investment and lack of expertise to set up an on-premise Hadoop cluster, big data users seek cloud-based MapReduce service over the Internet. Mostly, MapReduce on a cluster of virtual machines is offered as a service for a pay-per-use basis. Virtual machines in MapReduce virtual cluster reside in different physical machines and co-locate with other non-MapReduce VMs. This causes to share IO resources such as disk and network bandwidth, leading to congestion as most of the MapReduce jobs are disk and network intensive. Especially, the shuffle phase in MapReduce execution sequence consumes huge network bandwidth in a multi-tenant environment. This results in increased job latency and bandwidth consumption cost. Therefore, it is essential to minimize the amount of intermediate data in the shuffle phase rather than supplying more network bandwidth that results in increased service cost. Considering this objective, we extended multi-level per node combiner for a batch of MapReduce jobs to improve makespan. We observed that makespan is improved up to 32.4 % by minimizing the number of intermediate data in shuffle phase when compared to classical schedulers with default combiners.