Case Study

Boosting Data Processing Speed by 45% with Optimized Apache Spark and Hive on Amazon EMR

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Industry 

Oil and Gas Industry

Expertise 

Amazon EMR, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon VPC

Offerings/solutions 

Enhanced data processing, automated ETL, and reduced costs with scalable AWS solutions

About the Client

The customer is an oil and gas company owned by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. Headquartered in New Delhi, it is a public-sector undertaking formed by merging two companies. The company is a diversified energy major with a presence in oil, gas, petrochemicals, and alternative energy sources.

Highlights

45%

Improved Data Processing Speed

50%

Cost Reduction

60%

Enhanced Performance and Efficiency

The Challenge

The Oil and Gas industry faced challenges in managing application databases, including handling real-time and historical data streams, ensuring scalability for fluctuating workloads, integrating diverse data sources, and maintaining high availability. Additionally, safeguarding sensitive operational data and meeting industry regulations, along with enabling effective data analytics for real-time processing and trend analysis, are critical concerns.

Solutions

• Amazon EMR processes raw data from Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora, and Kinesis using Apache Spark.
• Multi-stage processing on EMR cleans, transforms, and aggregates data before Redshift load.
• Amazon Managed Workflows automate data ingestion, transformation, and scheduling of Amazon EMR jobs.
• Auto-scaling in Amazon EMR clusters optimizes cost and performance.
• Reserved Instances offer cost savings for long-term workloads.
• Amazon S3 partitioning and bucketing improve query performance.
• Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EMR logs monitor and resolve job issues.
• Processed data in Amazon Redshift enables fast analytics and reporting.
• Portal users access data from Amazon Redshift for insights and dashboards.

The Results

Optimized data processing with a 45% speed boost, automated 60% of ETL processes, reduced compute costs by 50%, improved query performance by 40%, and lowered storage costs by 35% with AWS solutions.

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