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There is a great need for further integration of health information technology into our mental health practices across the nation. If EHRs will truly make a quality difference, behavioral health care is an area of health care that may be in the most need. An overwhelming amount of the substance abuse, chronic illness, violent acts, and suicides are related to the health of the mind. Almost everything we do in and out of healthcare is related to the health of the mind if you think about it.
In 2012, an ONC Behavioral Health Roundtable Report stated that only 20% of the surveyed behavioral health organizations had fully adopted EHR. This is in comparison to a 40% or higher rate which is often reported among the general population of health care providers.
You may have heard the stories about the US Mental Health System and how it has evolved over the years from an inpatient focused model to providing treatment in our communities. Each day in our communities we are likely to see the results of untreated mental illness. Strangers, friends and family are often impacted, sometimes tragically, by poor outcomes. Opportunities for the diagnosis of illnesses like depression often go unrecognized in our schools and physician offices. Mental illness is frequently overlooked or just ignored. Maybe we turn our heads because of a system that is not equipped to adequately recognize, treat, and or pay for the needed infrastructure to support this at risk population. Maybe we just hope it will go away, and many times it does take care of itself; but usually not in the right way. Severely ill mental health patients are more likely to die early from physical illness, suicide or medication risk, compared to those without mental illness.
What's my point? This is an area in which I think we need to take a long hard look. An area which lacks the necessary medical infrastructure to provide proper systematic care and treatment, should probably be the area in which we prioritize early adoption of EHR. Interoperable HIT systems, patient portals, home monitoring devices may help to bridge the gap between the schizophrenic who is discharged from the inpatient psychiatric hospital and their primary care provider in the community. Better coordination and continuity of care is much needed in this patient population.
I am not an advocate for bickering about problems that cannot be solved, but I am an advocate for bringing awareness. I think we should be aware of the pressing issues in behavioral health and health care. I think we should understand that these provider practices are under adopted. And I think we should use this awareness to move to better support within this segment. This doesn't take a new invention. It only requires us to adjust and refocus.
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First off I want to say thank you for your work on CouchBase. It looks to be a very powerful product that will save many people from having to re-invent the wheel. I hope CouchBase continues to grow and becomes superior to Amazon and Google's custom implementations. Considering it's Free Software, it's just a matter of time.
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I refer to the 'Bank Example' multiple times in my questions. This is the video I am referring to: http://vimeo.com/39735657 - The Bank part is at 31:30
1) Key Hotspots - Does Couchbase do auto-balancing of load for a single key? Key "frontpage" for example would be accessed very frequently by every client (they could cache it, but then synchronization must be done manually gah). I've read the whitepaper on Google Filesystem, and they had/have this problem too when distributing executables/binaries for a distributed process. Their solution: manually increase the redundancy factor for the hotspot key. I found a similar question on the forums: http://www.couchbase.com/forums/thread/load-balancer ; the answer appears to be a no (and even worse, Couchbase doesn't use the redundancy nodes in round-robin distribution). I would like it if the cluster took care of load balancing for key hotspots (high reads, infrequent writes), including invalidating the in-cluster caches at the appropriate times (I believe this would have to be before the write. If it was after, you have stale data risks. This also might mean that the data is unavailable for a brief moment of time (if we try to read from the cache'd nodes)? I'm unsure).
2) View Emit Atomicity - Are 2 emits in a single View guaranteed to be added to the View's output/index atomically before Reduce processes it? In the bank example, if one emit is in (the balance subtraction) and the next is not (the balance addition), the overall balance will not be zero when doing View.Group().Group to verify all the transactions.
3) How, in the client, to know how often a View is updated? For example, should you use polling to verify the balance in the bank example? Should it be a specialized client (single point of failure!) or should any/every client do this (isn't this inefficient? see question #4)?
4) I know View results/indexes are written to the cluster, but what about filters/reduces? Are they generated only when a client requests them (pretty sure this is a yes)? Seeing as clients can request new filter criteria at runtime, does this mean every filter/reduce with different criteria is stored on the cluster? What if we only want it once? I can think of scenarios where it would be smart to keep it around, and also scenarios where you'd only want it once (so storing it would be a waste of space). Maybe TTLs in this case (except TTLs are lazy, so since you never request it again, it is never deleted :-/).
----EDIT, found this answer http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-views-writi... : "Reduce functions have one final trick up their sleeves, and that's the results of the reduction are stored in the index along with the rest of the view information. This means that when accessing the result of a reduce function in your view is only accessing the index content, and therefore is very low impact compared to calculating the values live when the view is accessed."
But it still makes me wonder if there's a way to NOT save the reduce results.
Also I think I found an error in the docs on that page with the answer, in the _count example: the input has James only but in the output there's Adam, James, and John. OH NVM technically it's not an error considering the elipses indicating there are more values... but sort of hard to see them. At first glance it appears the 3 James values are the only ones. Would improve readability to add the Adam/John input values.
5) Are there any better tap usage examples, including filtering of data? Does the filtering happen on the cluster (efficient) or on the client (inefficient)? Are taps the answer to #3? Can taps even be used with Views? The documentation on Taps is quite lacking (probably because it's an internal API :-/). I hope/imagine Taps and their filters can be set up to stream certain changes based on a key prefix (so you can benefit even more from your 'smart' key design), and that this filtering is done on the cluster?
I might be able to answer some of the parts of #5 myself after I get a test server up (running into dependency issues atm but they are documented so I should be able to get around them), for example the first thing I'm going to do is observe the output of tap_mutation, tap.py, and tap_example.py (perhaps you could consider putting sample output in the documentation for future readers). But I can't answer the "where does the filter run? client or cluster?" question without diving into the Couchbase source. In any case, I'm more interested in the answers to #1-4 than #5.
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1) We haven't had any issues with hot keys because of our in memory caching layer. This layer provides sub-millisecond response times and you can do over 100k ops/sec on even a single Couchbase node. Also, we have a replica read api, but I wouldn't suggest using it because I don't think it is necessary in most cases. I invite you to run a bunch of clients and hammer on the same key. I think you will find little to no performance drop.
3) You can provide a parameter to view requests stale=false that will guarentee that the view is up to date before you get the results back. You can also specify stale=update_after to get old view results but kick off the update process you your next query will be up to date.
4) My understanding is that we only store a single copy of the index. The query parameters simply allow you to scan the index to return only certain parts of whats in the index. In the future we will likely add support for ad-hoc queries, but for now we don't have them. Also, ad-hoc queries are really only useful for development. Anything you want to be fast should not be done ad-hoc.
5) Filtering of tap streams must be done client side. In the future we will likely add filters of the server-side since tap streams can be very useful for building applications. Tap streams are mostly used internally but we do plan on making them more public later. Take a look at the Couchbase java client since it has the most mature tap stream interface and is pretty easy to use.
I feel that I might have left a few things out so please let me know if you have any other questions or if there was anything I missed (Aside from question 2 since I don't think I'm the best person to answer that one).
Thank you for answering, it has cleared a lot of things up for me.
1) While I certainly agree that a memory based solution is faster than Google's hard disk based solution, I can't help but wonder if there would still be bottlenecks in other places, such as the network link. A gigabit ethernet cable maxes out at ~125 MB/s, so only there could only be ~125 simultaneous users accessing a single 1mb document. Perhaps I'm just getting too obsessed with scalability theory (interesting stuff yo), but I could see that as being a problem in a large cluster/application. Essentially what I'm getting at is that single keys do not scale horizontally. The work-around solution is simple: clients cache the hotspot key. Take this as a distant feature suggestion in making CouchBase a swiss army knife of distributed databases (because it looks like you've got your hands full with the feature-rich 2.0 release).
4) I'm confused on what you mean by: "ad-hoc queries are really only useful for development". I was under the impression they were the solution to querying (based on a user supplied string, for example) the data in a production environment. By development, do you mean when a coder is writing his client interface and is merely checking the results of something he recently did (making sure it worked etc)... or do you mean a dedicated client (not serving users) behind the scenes that is directing the overall flow/organization of data across the cluster (since he is not dealing with users, he does not have latency constraints)? In any case, I meant neither of those when I said I thought querying was the solution for doing a string search (example) in a production environment. My [erroneous?] method would have had the client/client-interface doing it on behalf of the user.
I've put more thought into that feature idea, but what it really depends on is this:
Can you _detect_ a key hotspot currently? I'm not comfortable enough with the Couchbase source code to want to try to figure that out.
If you CAN, great. Here's a design elaborating on what I said earlier to scale a single hotspot key horizontally:
First, like I said already, set up another node (or nodes) to do caching. These caching nodes know who the actual owner of the key is. The actual owner and the smart client will have to communicate with each other somehow. The actual owner could lie to the smart client and say that the cache node is where the key resides... or it can be honest and let him know it's just a cache (knowing every cache node + the actual would allow the smart client to do round robin himself. But if he is "lied to", then the actual key owner node will be the one doing the round robin distributing. It doesn't matter, but there are options).
This is easy to understand and only handles reads. Writes are a bit tricker but still possible:
The smart client (or lied-to client, whichever) does a write on the key. Whether he does it to the actual key owner or to the cache (thinking it's the actual owner) depends on the above (but it doesn't matter). If he writes to the cache, the cache just forwards the write to the actual. Once it hits the actual owner, the actual key owner node invalidates every cache that he instantiated, then performs the write. If a read comes in to any of the caches during the period they are invalidated, they would just ask the actual owner for the value.... which is a blocking operation until the actual owner finishes the write. Alternatively, the actual owner could push the new value out to the caches (simultaneously marking them valid again), but this makes no difference.
The idea is that a key hotspot node owner only instantiates more caches as needed..... but theoretically can use every node in the cluster to cache it. Writing becomes more expensive... but for such an extreme case with so many reads, it is worth it.
It doesn't even sound that hard to implement for someone comfortable with the code base... but depends entirely on whether or not you can detect key hotspots. 2.0 release maybe :-D?
1) You are correct that if you maxing out the network will limit your scalability. We rarely run into normal customer scenarios where this is the case and in our view if we allow the network to be your bottleneck then we have done a good job building our server. As our clients mature it is likely that we will added some built in caching mechanism in the clients. At present you could certainly use a third party solution along side of our clients.
4) To me one of the reasons for choosing a NoSQL database is speed. To have the fastest possible queries you want to have the indexes defined before query time. Ad-hoc queries are built on demand and are therefore slower so I was just making this point. I think I went a little bit to far to say that they are only useful for development. I think you have a good understanding of what's going on here.
I've put more thought into that feature idea, but what it really depends on is this:
Can you _detect_ a key hotspot currently? I'm not comfortable enough with the Couchbase source code to want to try to figure that out.
If you CAN, great. Here's a design elaborating on what I said earlier to scale a single hotspot key horizontally:
First, like I said already, set up another node (or nodes) to do caching. These caching nodes know who the actual owner of the key is. The actual owner and the smart client will have to communicate with each other somehow. The actual owner could lie to the smart client and say that the cache node is where the key resides... or it can be honest and let him know it's just a cache (knowing every cache node + the actual would allow the smart client to do round robin himself. But if he is "lied to", then the actual key owner node will be the one doing the round robin distributing. It doesn't matter, but there are options).
This is easy to understand and only handles reads. Writes are a bit tricker but still possible:
The smart client (or lied-to client, whichever) does a write on the key. Whether he does it to the actual key owner or to the cache (thinking it's the actual owner) depends on the above (but it doesn't matter). If he writes to the cache, the cache just forwards the write to the actual. Once it hits the actual owner, the actual key owner node invalidates every cache that he instantiated, then performs the write. If a read comes in to any of the caches during the period they are invalidated, they would just the actual owner for the value.... which is a blocking operation until the actual owner finishes the write. Alternatively, the actual owner could push the new value out to the caches (simultaneously marking them valid again), but this makes no difference.
The idea is that a key hotspot node owner only instantiates more caches as needed..... but theoretically can use every node in the cluster to cache it. Writing becomes more expensive... but for such an extreme case with soooooo many reads, it is worth it.
It doesn't even sound that hard to implement for someone comfortable with the code base... but depends entirely on whether or not you can detect key hotspots. 2.0 release maybe :-D?
err I keep hitting the spam filter when I try to edit it. Just wanted to add that it applies to 1.8 too :), so could be back-ported easily and released as 1.8.1 or something
edit: wtf double post too? sorry about that
edit 2: since adding code to detect key hotspots (keeping count of which keys are accessed and how often etc) would potentially add slowdown (unless it already exists? in which case ignore this), I think it'd be a great compile time switch. #define SCALE_HOTSPOT_KEYS_HORIZONTALLY and then users that don't need that functionality are not affected by it.
Today's free feature day. I give you free features/designs and you give me FREE SOFTWARE :-D. Fair trade eh? Fuck yea Richard Stallman.
edit 3: If by chance one of the replica nodes are instantiated as a cache, it can refer to the same piece of data as a memory saving technique. It would still need to be aware that it is performing 2 roles simultaneously (it invalidates reads when 'actual' says to, but is PART OF the write that it is waiting on (you DO replicate before reporting the write as complete to the client, don't you?)). Perhaps it would be smartest to intantiate the repica nodes as cache nodes first anyways (or maybe smartest to use node with least activity)?
If I understand correctly your idea is to set up one or more caching nodes for heavily read keys and to incorporate these caching nodes into our cluster and only use them for heavily read keys. These caching nodes would be part of the cluster and smart clients would know whether or not to go to them or to go to a normal Couchbase node.
In my opinion we actually already do something like this. In Couchbase each node contains a memcached layer at the highest level. If we have a Couchbase server that has enough memory to hold 3 keys and space for more keys on disk then this server will be able function at over 100k ops/sec if there are only 3 keys since all of our data accesses will come from memory. When we start adding more keys things get a little bit more interesting. If we have more then 3 keys than what is important is that only 3 keys are in use at any given time. So basically you don't want your maximum working set to exceed the amount of memory you have in the cluster. Doing this will rovide sub-millisecond latencies for a key no matter how hot it is.
My point here is that all of you active keys are already cached by us so having another caching server is in my opinion not likely to give you any major benefits, unless of course this caching mechanism is built into your client application.
Let me know if you have any other questions or ideas.
Allow me to elaborate using maths,
Suppose you have a very popular blog, let's say example.com
example.com goes through a load balancer that uses round robin distribution.
Behind the load balancer is... say... 20 webservers. These are the servers that the load balancer hands off to.
Each webserver has it's own internet data link, let's say at 100mbps (12.5 MB/s) each, to serve users of example.com directly.
The webservers are also CLIENTS to a Couchbase cluster on an internal LAN. Let's say 100 couchbase nodes (but this number does not matter, because 1 key is only ever located on 1 node at any given moment (excluding replicas)). The entire internal LAN is hooked up via gigabit links.
If you post a 1mb file (binary, whatever) on the front page of your blog, which is backed by the Couchbase cluster, that 1mb file is going to become a hotspot.
Let's say 1000 people are on example.com when you post the file, and all of them try to download it at the same time. I chose 1000 people because it is a relatively low number these days.
The webservers will be able to keep up: every user gets 250 KB/s download speeds. (20 webservers * 12.5 MB/s each = 250 MB/s overall throughput... divided by 1000 users simultaneously downloading the file = 250 KB/s for each user).
The bottleneck becomes the couchbase node that holds the 1mb file. Not because of memory I/O, but because it maxes out it's gigabit link to the webservers/couchbase-clients.
That single node is responsible for serving every user on every client (1000 people means 1000 requests unless you do additional caching in your webserver/couchbase-client), and it only has a single 1gb link to do it.
A gigabit link is 125 MB/s.
125 MB/s divided by 1000 users downloading the same file = 125 KB/s each. This is half the capacity of your webservers' maximum overall throughput.
20 Webservers (100mb links) can serve 250 kb/s to 1000 users
1 Couchbase node (1gb link) can serve 125 kb/s to 1000 users
See the problem?
I got lucky those numbers came out so cleanly lol... didn't plan for that.
The purpose of instantiating neighbor Couchbase nodes as caches is to utilize the neighbor's 1gb link to the webservers/couchbase-clients (this is assuming the nodes don't share a router or something in the LAN, in which case the router becomes the bottleneck). In this case you'd only need to instantiate 1 'cache' to help you meet your webserver's maximum throughput of 250 KB/s when 1000 users are online downloading a single file ("key" in Couchbase).
I do understand what you're saying about such a caching strategy taking up a portion of your neighbor's RAM (and therefore working set), but I think under such circumstances it is well worth the cost (the size of the document is insignificant... it's the frequent accesses we're trying to remedy).
On Another Note:
I'm starting to wonder if Couchbase is the product I want. It seems perfect, but there appears to be too much emphasis on 'keeping all documents in memory'.
Is it safe to say that Couchbase is a product more similar to Amazon ElastiCache than Amazon DynamoDB?
That being said, wouldn't Couchbase perform and function just fine with a working set 5 times the size of the overall cluster's available RAM?
I am OK with cold cache gets. Keep the most frequently accessed documents in RAM, yea... that's a common sense caching mechanism.
If the answer to this is: "Yes, Couchbase performs perfectly well with a working set much larger than the total available RAM in the cluster", then GREAT (I will probably use it!).... but I have one business suggestion: don't put so much emphasis on making sure the entire working set fits into RAM (unless you're selling the 'sub millisecond latency' bullet point that is so frequently repeated). For most use cases, having the entire working set in memory is not necessary. When it IS necessary, the person setting everything up will know and will size their RAM/Cluster accordingly.
Is Couchbase a:
"Distributed Database"?
"In-Memory Cloud Cache" (to quote ElastiCache)?
(Functionally, it is both... but the marketing/documentation makes it sound more like an In-Memory Cloud Cache. You might be scaring off potential customers this way)
I think Couchbase's history with Memcached explains why there's so much emphasis on 'keeping every document in memory'.
Lastly, is there a way to make Couchbase skip the warmup period? Tbh, I'm ok with a cold cache get for the first get of every key. I'm also a bit confused on how Couchbase determines which portion of the working set (assuming it's larger than the node has RAM) it loads. Say I have 2gb on the hard drive but only 1gb RAM for that node... does it just get the first 1gb during the warmup? This isn't an issue, I'm just curious (so long as everything is still accessible (cold or not)).
And now, joke time:
I'm getting... cold feet.
Your history with memcached might be... clouding your vision.
rofl. I'm here till Tuesday.
Keep up the great work guys, I can be a bit nit picky at times I know.
1. I understand that you are trying to lower the bandwidth used with certain network connections. This however isn't something we frequently hear about and that can be implemented client side. You could for example just set a cache and place keys in it with a low time to live (maybe 15 seconds) and then just refetch the item from Couchbase every 15 seconds so that the item isn't stale. If we get more requests for this feature then we will certainly consider adding it.
2. We have many customers who don't keep their entire working sets in memory and things work fine. Just realize that you are forcing requests to hit disk and this will slow the average latency for requests.
3. Couchbase is a distributed database. We persist all of your data onto disk.
4. Warmup must take place since we have to load all of the key data into memory so that requests can take place. We then load in all of the values that were in memory prior to shutdown. This second step could potentially be skipped, but I don't think we currently provide the functionality to skip it.
I am thinking about doing it in the client, but I really think the functionality belongs in the cluster itself. Implementing it in the client would have the downside of: replicating and persisting the caches (a cache needs neither). A 15 second TTL would definitely be easier to implement, but also means you can receive stale data for a maximum of 15 seconds. The design I outlined above would have atomic writes. The more caches instantiated, the more expensive... but it would be well worth it for such hypothetical extremes. No client would ever get stale data.
Should I file this as an Improvement in the Issue tracker?
and thank you for helping me regain my confidence in using Couchbase as a distributed database :)
Yes, please file an improvement for this.


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"The Maker Movement is re-defining the American dream. With new advances in technology enabling the democratization of ideas, skills, and products, citizens young and old are now able to turn their creative passions into real businesses. This new economy is reigniting American manufacturing and employment, while bringing together communities of makers who are producing innovative products for less cost than ever before. It's an economy that could total nearly $700B." stated Morin.
Since the beginning, Brit + Co has focused on inspiring and enabling women and girls to learn how to make, using tools and skills both new and old. As part of today's White House Maker Faire, the company is announcing four new programs to continue igniting this audience:
These new programs include:
In addition, Morin will be in attendance at today's White House Maker Faire and participating in a National Day of Making using #NationOfMakers on Twitter.
Brit + Co is an online media and e-commerce platform that provides tools to teach, inspire, and enable creativity among women and girls. From traditional crafts to high-tech manufacturing, Brit + Co connects millions of users with makers, designers, chefs, and inventors, together building a community of creativity.
For additional information on these programs, please visit the Brit + Co website at www.brit.co.
For more information on the White House Maker Faire and to watch live, please visit www.WhiteHouse.gov/MakerFaire.
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According to our Country Share Tracker (CST) service, China smartphone shipments grew +29% YoY to record levels in Q2 2014. Samsung maintained the number one spot, followed closely by Xiaomi in second place. For the first time ever, Coolpad pushed into third position thanks to healthy demand for its LTE models. By contrast, Lenovo fell out of the top 3 list this quarter and storm clouds are brewing for the vendor. This published report, available to clients, contains extensive data and analysis of the China smartphone market by hardware brand and by OS from Q1 2009 to Q2 2014. A forecast by quarter for Q3 2014 is also included.
After years of speculation, Amazon finally introduced its first Fire Phone with AT&T in the US on Wednesday, 18th June, 2014. Amazon is planning to take a slice of the global smartphone hardware industry and expand the mobile shopping market. However, the Fire is neither optimized for smartphone buyers nor mobile shoppers, and it risks getting caught in no-man's land. This first-generation Fire may struggle to gain traction. Further insight and analysis on this topic can be found for subscribers in our published report here: Amazon Fire Puts a Shopping Cart in Your Pocket.
According to our Country Share Tracker (CST) service, global LTE phone shipments grew +93% annually in Q1 2014. The US, South Korea, Japan and Europe continued to witness rapid 4G growth, while new-entrant China has quickly established itself as the second-largest LTE market. Dozens of LTE handset models from Samsung, Apple, LG, Sony, Nokia and others are now flooding the market. The United States remains by far the world's largest LTE country, boosted by robust carrier subsidies. This extensive published report, avauilable to clients, tracks global LTE handset shipments and vendor marketshare for 17 major vendors in 5 major LTE countries from Q1 2012 through Q1 2014.
According to our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, the global Firefox smartphone installed base will be a niche proposition in 2014 / 2015. Can Mozilla get the new mobile operating system off the ground in places like Venezuela and Spain? Can it challenge Android?This extensive published report, available to clients, forecasts global smartphone sales, by 14 operating systems for 88 countries worldwide, from 2007 to 2018. Almost every major country worldwide is covered, including the United States, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and others.
Our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) team attended the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone at Radio City in New York, US, on Thursday 14th March, 2013. Several thousand attendees joined the event.We trialed the S4 earlier this week and were briefed on the strategy behind it. This is a concise summary of our initial analysis:Key Hardware: As expected, the S4 contains a 5.0-inch, full-HD, super AMOLED display with an impressive 441ppi in a rounded-slate formfactor. There are Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core / Samsung Exynos octo-core chipsets, varying by region. Other specs include 2GB RAM, dual-camera, NFC and MHL. The S4 looks visually similar to the previous S3, but the materials feel better quality and it is slimmer, lighter and nicer to hold in the hand.Key Software: Samsung has clearly worked hard on its software and the results are impressive. There is finger-hover for the touchscreen, gesture recognition, improved eye-tracking, and better camera-editing.Key Services: Samsung has layered a rich suite of Samsung proprietary services on top of the Android Jelly Bean OS. There are plenty of "S" services, such as S-Health and S-Translator. Google will be worried by this.The S4 will launch commercially in the US and worldwide at the end of April 2013. Versions will support 3G, 4G and TD-LTE. There are 325 carriers in 166 countries onboard, such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Pricing will be Note-like.We forecast tens of millions of units to be shipped worldwide this year. Provided there are no major "hidden" bugs that become apparent after launch, the S4 will be another blockbuster product for Samsung.Which competitors will be impacted by the S4? Apple, LG, Sony, HTC, Blackberry, Nokia, Huawei, ZTE and Motorola will all be getting some sleepless nights in the next few weeks. Models such as iPhone 5 and HTC One could feel some pain.We will publish a full report to clients on Friday 15th March, 2013.
According to our Country Share Tracker (CST) service, smartphone shipments surged +64% annually in China during the fourth quarter of 2012. Android and Android forks together accounted for a record volume of all smartphones shipped in China last year. Apple iOS followed in second place. More analysis can be downloaded by clients here.
According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, global smartphone shipments grew 43 percent annually to reach a record 700 million units in 2012. Samsung was the star performer, capturing 30 percent marketshare worldwide and extending its lead over Apple and Nokia.
Global smartphone shipments grew 38 percent annually from 157.0 million units in Q4 2011 to 217.0 million in Q4 2012. Global smartphone shipments for the full year reached a record 700.1 million units in 2012, increasing robustly from 490.5 million units in 2011. Global shipment growth slowed from 64 percent in 2011 to 43 percent in 2012 as penetration of smartphones began to mature in developed regions such as North America and Western Europe.
Samsung shipped a record 213.0 million smartphones worldwide and captured 30 percent marketshare in 2012. This was the largest number of units ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single year, beating Nokia?s previous all-time record when it shipped 100.1 million units during 2010. Despite tough competition in stores and courtrooms, Samsung continued to deliver numerous hit models, from the high-end Galaxy Note2 phablet to the mass-market Galaxy Y. Apple grew a healthy 46 percent annually and shipped 135.8 million smartphones worldwide for 19 percent marketshare in 2012, broadly flat from the 19 percent level recorded in 2011. Apple had a strong year in developed regions like North America, but this was offset partly by its limited presence in high-growth emerging markets such as Africa.
Samsung and Apple together accounted for half of all smartphones shipped worldwide in 2012. Large marketing budgets, extensive distribution channels and attractive product portfolios have enabled Samsung and Apple to tighten their grip on the smartphone industry. The growth of Samsung and Apple has continued to impact Nokia. Nokia retained its position as the world?s third largest smartphone vendor for full-year 2012, but its global marketshare has dropped sharply from 16 percent to five percent during the past year. Nokia's Windows Phone portfolio has improved significantly in recent months, with new models like the Lumia 920, but we believe the vendor still lacks a true hero model in its range that can be considered an Apple iPhone or Samsung S3 killer.The summary of the report can be viewed here.
Exhibit 1: Global Mobile Phone Vendor Shipments and Market Share in Q4 2012 1
Global Smartphone Vendor Shipments (Millions of Units)
Global Smartphone Vendor Marketshare %
Total Growth Year-over-Year %
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While there has understandably been a lot of attention given to consumer apps post iPhone and the plethora of application stores that have emerged, business mobility and enterprise mobility offer huge potential from horizontal to vertical applications and from smartphones to iPads and tablets to superphones.
In both NA and W. Europe, business customers account for under 30% of users but are the dominant streams of both revenue and profits for operators. On the device side, premium priced models from RIM, Nokia, and Microsoft Mobile licensees as well as the iPhone have long been key drivers of profits in a market where low single digit margins are the norm. The explosion of smartphone choices has led to the battle ground moving beyond the corner office, to other executive and now increasingly the midlevel manager.
With a new range of devices competing for space in the corporate market, the issue of corporate versus individual liable has become an increasing priority for IT decision makers. Add on the complexity of managing an expanding list of OS (Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, MeeGo, Bada from Samsung) and the growing importance of mobile portable devices with access behind the firewall and one can already feel a corporate migraine forming…. And that's before we even discuss device management, mobility policy, device retirement etc. etc.
I am looking forward to CTIA Fall (San Francisco October 5-7) and in particular to the Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp moderated by Philippe Winthrop of the Enterprise Mobility Foundation. The boot camp spread over two days will address many of the issue listed above with our own Andy Brown featured in an analyst roundtable on October 6th. I look forward to meeting you there. Don't hesitate to contact Philippe for passes to this the deep dive enterprise mobility event.
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Returning from CTIA in Las Vegas last week and with only 2 days before going off on vacation to Florida, I found myself reflecting that two of the most interesting meetings I had at the show were with mobile operators.
During CTIA I spent some time with AT&T emerging devices and T-Mobile M2M teams and was impressed with how both these units had managed to cut (or at least untie) the cord to the mother ship and avoid having innovation stifled by the Borg up at Corporate.
Partnership is the order of the day.
AT&T highlighted partner applications ranging from location enabled pet collars (Apisphere) to glow cap bottles to aid compliance with medication schedules (Vitality) to a very cool new tablet from Openpeak which is very different to the announced but apparently supply side challenged iPad. Verizon Wireless and Sprint are of course also praying at the alter of open development but perhaps with less public presence.
When I think of enterprise mobility, AT&T and Verizon Wireless are top of mind but T-Mobile has in fact quietly been developing strong competency in the M2M space over the last 7-8 years.
T-Mobile offers four different SIM form factors to suit specific applications and have enjoyed triple digit growth for the last four years. T-Mobile US has quietly activated "hundreds" of different device types on its network with only a handful of devices being rejected or pulled due to network unfriendly characteristics. These devices span Telematics, Connected Energy, Telemedicine and several other applications.
So what is the common DNA of two very different operators that has allowed them to innovate and focus on new opportunities? Separation and operational autonomy to facilitate and open funnel approach to partners and speed of execution not normally associated with US carriers.
In the case of AT&T, the Emerging Devices group was chartered with developing a new space and freed from the legacy of voice & data consumer tariffs and prepaid/postpaid categories which just don't cut it in the new connected reality where users will have multiple devices connected but used in very different ways. Mr. Lurie and his team have been able to streamline device certification and experiment across the spectrum of business models for new connected applications.
For T-Mobile, speed of certification (days not months) and the independence of being a self-contained unit (own engineers, own sales although linked to broader enterprise group) reporting to Finance & Strategy have allowed them to pursue their "easiest to do business with" approach to the M2M markets.
So, the takeaway? Innovation is alive and well at US operators but separation from the collective corporate mind is essential.
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BeTerrific.com used the Streamer 8000, which bonds multiple wireless data cards into a single IP pipe, to stream a live webcast from the 2014 Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles to nearly 300,000 viewers.
SAN DIEGO, July 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In the last century, filmmaking has undergone radical transformation, and today is no different. Now, with only iOS devices, an app, a video switcher and Internet via Broadband Bonding™ technology from Mushroom Networks, Inc., filmmakers can broadcast live anytime, anywhere.
At the recent Cine Gear Expo, the premier film, video, and digital media expo for the entertainment industry, Artsis Media Inc.'s BeTerrific.com accomplished an industry-first-producing live video using iFilmmaking techniques and streaming it to nearly 300,000 viewers on YouTube and UStream. With iPhones and iPads, including an iPad mini via The Padcaster Mini Kit, as the only cameras, Michael Artsis, CEO of Artsis Media and a five-time Emmy Award winning video journalist, and his team shot video from inside a booth and from the show floor. The team used a beta version of the new FiLMiC Pro iOS app and then wirelessly output full 1920x1080 HD video from the iOS devices to a Paladin Video Production Switcher connected to the Mushroom Networks Streamer 8000. From there, the Streamer 8000 delivered fast, high-quality streaming of the webcast.
Mushroom Networks' Streamer family, which includes the Streamer 8000 and the Streamer Pro, uses the company's patented Broadband Bonding technology to bond multiple 3G/4G wireless data cards into a single, optimized IP tunnel, to provide professional-grade reliability and redundancy.
For Artsis, the Streamer 8000 delivered the breakthrough necessary for live video streaming. The bonding device was easy to use and provided the consistency for quality filmmaking. "With other network devices I've tested, I'd worry whether they'd work or we'd run into problems, and I've never known anyone to have a trouble-free experience without a satellite truck. Not so with the Streamer 8000, which is easy to use, is consistent and gives us filmmakers peace of mind…, it simply works" he said.
"Mushroom Networks, and all the partners that participated in this live video streaming, are at the forefront of transformation in filmmaking, where quality video can be created and streamed, live, from anywhere," continued Artsis. "The bottom line is that there are no limits anymore and creatives can do what they do best: create."
The Streamer 8000 and Streamer Pro are available through select channels. For more information, please call (858) 452-1032 or visit http://www.mushroomnetworks.com.
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Protesters outside the offices of Bain Capital demonstrate against the company on August 21, 2012 in Evanston, Illinois. The demonstrators are angry with Bain Capital's plans to move to China 165 jobs from the Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport, Illinois. Workers from the plant delivered to the Bain Capital office a petition with more than 35,000 signatures urging the company to save their jobs. Bain Capital, whose former CEO was current Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, purchased the Freeport plant two years ago.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was among 14 people arrested Wednesday during an attempt to meet with the manager of a northern Illinois plant in the process of moving nearly 200 jobs to China.
Workers at the Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport have been protesting the outsourcing of jobs and on Wednesday filed unfair labor practice charges against the company.
Sensata, a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of sensors and controls for automakers, is mostly owned and controlled by Bain Capital, the asset management and financial services firm founded by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and others. Romney still owns stock in the company, and his 2011 tax returns indicate he received a tax break by moving company stock to a charitable organization he controls.
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How we built it: Making Hadoop data exploration easier with Ad-hoc SQL Queries
Julien Guery is a software engineering intern at Continuuity and a Masters student at French engineering school Télécom Bretagne.
We are excited to introduce a new feature added in the latest 2.3 release of Continuuity Reactor – ad-hoc querying of Datasets. Datasets are high-level abstractions over common data patterns. Reactor Datasets provide a consistent view of your data whether processed in batch or real-time. In addition to scans and RPCs of Datasets, there is also a need to explore data through an easy-to-use SQL query interface. This allows you to run ad-hoc interactive queries on Datasets, generate reports on Datasets, and integrate Reactor with the BI tool of your choice. In this blog, we will talk about how this works and how we expose an easy-to-use interface for querying data.
In keeping with our mission of providing simple access to powerful technology, we set out to enable ad-hoc querying capabilities of Datasets without adding additional overhead to the user. We accomplished this by integrating the underlying technologies that enable declarative querying into Reactor. One of our important design goals was to introduce this feature without our users having to manage additional services or frameworks outside of Reactor. Below we will share how we built this system.
Hive as the SQL engine
SQL is a widely adopted standard for ad-hoc querying, and it's a great way to make it easy for users to interact with Datasets. While there are a number of existing SQL engines in the Hadoop ecosystem, we decided to go with Apache Hive because one of its core components, Hive Metastore (which stores metadata about Hive tables), is also used by other existing SQL engines like Presto and Impala. This means that later integrations of those engines will be easier.
Datasets are non-native, external tables from Hive's point of view. Hive has a well-defined interface for interacting with non-native tables via Storage Handlers. To integrate Hive with Datasets, we implemented a custom Dataset Storage Handler to manage the interactions. The Dataset Storage Handler is composed of:
- a DatasetInputFormat that knows how to retrieve Dataset Records from Datasets, and
- a DatasetSerDe that converts the records into objects that Hive can work with.
The data flow between Hive and Datasets is depicted below:
Hive as a Service in Reactor
Typically, a Hive installation consists of a Hive Metastore server that contains the metadata and a Hive Server that runs the user queries. In our case, we can connect to an existing Hive Metastore for metadata. However, connecting to an existing Hive server has the following limitations:
- Hive Server does not have interfaces that allow access to the complete query life cycle. This limits transaction management while dealing with Datasets.
- Hive Server runs user code in server space, which makes the service vulnerable to bad code.
- Hive Server's HTTP interface does not support security and multi-tenancy.
To overcome these limitations, we created a new HTTP-based Hive Server that addresses the above issues by wrapping Hive's CLIService and integrating with Reactor's Datasets and transactions engine Tephra. We chose to run the Hive Server in YARN containers for proper user code and resource isolation, as well as scalability.
Hive-Reactor Integration challenges
Since Hive jars bundle disparate libraries like Procotol Buffers and Guava, we came across a recurrent classloading issue. This is because Reactor uses different versions of these libraries. We had to make sure that the classpaths of the different components that run Hive in Reactor have their jars in a particular order. We fixed the classpath order in various places by doing the following:
- In Reactor Master: since we only launch Hive service from Reactor Master, it was sufficient to isolate Hive jars in a separate classloader to avoid any library version conflicts.
- In the YARN container running Hive service: we set the classpath of the container in the right order during its initialization since we have control over it.
- In the mapreduce jobs launched by Hive in the YARN cluster: we set the Hadoop configuration setting mapreduce.job.user.classpath.first to true so that Reactor jars contained in the hive.aux.jars configuration would come earlier than Hive jars in the classpath of those mapreduce jobs.
- In the local mapreduce jobs launched in the same YARN container as the Hive service: we changed the way Hadoop classpath was set by modifying the HADOOP_CLASSPATH environment variable. We also set the environment variable HADOOP_USER_CLASSPATH_FIRST to true so that the HADOOP_CLASSPATH content would come earlier than Hive jars in the classpath of the local mapreduce jobs.
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We are working hard to enable a more fun and productive user experience for data exploration in Hadoop. One of the features that we plan on introducing in the future is a JDBC driver to connect third-party BI tools to Reactor Datasets. This will make our platform even more accessible to all users who want to work with data in Hadoop.
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The Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival was created to bring together three Northwest Arkansas cross-country races under a single event. The Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival is now one of the premier running events in America. Each year over 80 college teams and 120 high school teams battle for prestige and unique Chile Pepper themed awards. Additionally, 750 individuals participate in the Open 10k and 5K Fun Run plus the New Tom Lewis 1 Mile Pepper Dash on Friday Night. The event is held at University of Arkansas' incredible off road course and all runners are invited to enjoy a Hot Mexican food feast following the race.
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Scenic Rim Regional Council is participating in the South East Queensland Council of Mayors Carbon Sink initiative. The regional carbon sink initiative involves a number of SEQ councils planting trees which will absorb carbon emissions to create a more sustainable future for the three million people who live in SEQ. The carbon sink is located near Bromelton and was the second to be established after Redland Shire Council launched a pilot site in July 2009. A carbon sink makes use of the natural processes and cycles of trees, plants and soil which soak up carbon dioxide and temporarily store the carbon in wood, roots, leaves and the soil. The planting of trees in the Scenic Rim's carbon sink has been funded by contributions from Scenic Rim Regional Council, Gold Coast City Council, Logan City Council, Redland Shire Council, Brisbane City Council and Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
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