Overview

The Hazelcast Jet Runner can be used to execute Beam pipelines using Hazelcast Jet.

The Jet Runner and Jet are suitable for large scale continuous jobs and provide:

It’s important to note that the Jet Runner is currently in an EXPERIMENTAL state and can not make use of many of the capabilities present in Jet:

The Beam Capability Matrix documents the supported capabilities of the Jet Runner.

Running WordCount with the Hazelcast Jet Runner

Generating the Beam examples project

Just follow the instruction from the Java Quickstart page

Running WordCount on a Local Jet Cluster

Issue following command in the Beam examples project to start new Jet cluster and run the WordCount example on it.

    $ mvn package exec:java \
        -DskipTests \
        -Dexec.mainClass=org.apache.beam.examples.WordCount \
        -Dexec.args="\
            --runner=JetRunner \
            --jetLocalMode=3 \
            --inputFile=pom.xml \
            --output=counts" \
        -Pjet-runner

Running WordCount on a Remote Jet Cluster

The Beam examples project, when generated from an archetype, comes from a particular released Beam version (that’s what the archetypeVersion property is about). Each Beam version that contains the Jet Runner (ie. from 2.14.0 onwards) uses a certain version of Jet. Because of this, when we start a stand-alone Jet cluster and try to run Beam examples on it we need to make sure the two are compatible. See following table for which Jet version is recommended for various Beam versions.

Beam VersionCompatible Jet Versions
2.20.0 or newer4.x
2.14.0 - 2.19.03.x
2.13.0 or olderN/A

Download latest Hazelcast Jet version compatible with the Beam you are using from Hazelcast Jet Website.

Once the download has finished you need to start a Jet cluster. The simplest way to do so is to start Jet cluster members using the jet-start script that comes with the downloaded Jet distribution. The members use the auto discovery feature auto discovery feature to form a cluster. Let’s start up a cluster formed by two members:

$ cd hazelcast-jet
$ bin/jet-start.sh &
$ bin/jet-start.sh &
$ cd hazelcast-jet
$ bin/jet-start &
$ bin/jet-start &

Check the cluster is up and running:

$ bin/jet.sh cluster
$ bin/jet cluster

You should see something like:

State: ACTIVE
Version: 3.0
Size: 2

ADDRESS                  UUID
[192.168.0.117]:5701     76bea7ba-f032-4c25-ad04-bdef6782f481
[192.168.0.117]:5702     03ecfaa2-be16-41b6-b5cf-eea584d7fb86
State: ACTIVE
Version: 4.0
Size: 2

ADDRESS                  UUID
[192.168.0.117]:5701     b9937bba-32aa-48ba-8e32-423aafed763b
[192.168.0.117]:5702     dfeadfb2-3ba5-4d1c-95e7-71a1a3ca4937

Change directory to the Beam Examples project and issue following command to submit and execute your Pipeline on the remote Jet cluster. Make sure to distribute the input file (file with the words to be counted) to all machines where the cluster runs. The word count job won’t be able to read the data otherwise.

    $ mvn package exec:java \
        -DskipTests \
        -Dexec.mainClass=org.apache.beam.examples.WordCount \
        -Dexec.args="\
            --runner=JetRunner \
            --jetServers=192.168.0.117:5701,192.168.0.117:5702 \
            --codeJarPathname=target/word-count-beam-bundled-0.1.jar \
            --inputFile=<INPUT_FILE_AVAILABLE_ON_ALL_CLUSTER_MEMBERS> \
            --output=/tmp/counts" \
        -Pjet-runner

Pipeline Options for the Jet Runner

FieldDescriptionDefault Value
runnerThe pipeline runner to use. This option allows you to determine the pipeline runner at runtime.Set to JetRunner to run using Jet.
jetGroupNamejetClusterNameThe name of the Hazelcast Group to join, in essence an ID of the Jet Cluster that will be used by the Runner. With groups it is possible to create multiple clusters where each cluster has its own group and doesn't interfere with other clusters. The name of the Hazelcast Cluster that will be used by the Runner.jet
jetServersList of the addresses of Jet Cluster members, needed when the Runner doesn't start its own Jet Cluster, but makes use of an external, independently started one. Takes the form of a comma separated list of ip/hostname-port pairs, like this: 192.168.0.117:5701,192.168.0.117:5702127.0.0.1:5701
codeJarPathnameAlso a property needed only when using external Jet Clusters, specifies the location of a fat jar containing all the code that needs to run on the cluster (so at least the pipeline and the runner code). The value is any string that is accepted by new java.io.File() as a parameter.Has no default value.
jetLocalModeThe number of Jet Cluster members that should be started locally by the Runner. If it's 0 then the Runner will be using an external cluster. If greater, then the Runner will be using a cluster started by itself.0
jetDefaultParallelismLocal parallelism of Jet members, the number of processors of each vertex of the DAG that will be created on each Jet Cluster member.2
jetProcessorsCooperativeBoolean flag specifying if Jet Processors for DoFns are allowed to be cooperative (ie. use green threads instead of dedicated OS ones). If set to true than all such Processors will be cooperative, except when they have no outputs (so they are assumed to be syncs).false