Benchmarking Apache Accumulo BigData Distributed Table Store Using Its Continuous Test Suite

In this paper, we present results of benchmarking Apache Accumulo distributed table store using the continuous tests suite included in its open source distribution. The continuous test suite contains tests that build and traverse a very large linked list, implemented via a simple table-row indexing mechanism. This underlying design provides insight for developing applications dealing with complex relationship among data sets as typically found in graph analytics applications. The benchmark study investigated sustained continuous mode stress testing and identified optimum configurations for very high-throughput data ingest, sequential and random query operations. Apache Accumulo also has the unique feature of cell level data access security, and the benchmark evaluates the processing overhead for this feature. We also tested high-speed table data verification and validation. These benchmark tests were run on a large cluster optimized for large-scale analytics and we present the performance figures for Apache Accumulo found in the study.