| ## What is Samza? [](https://travis-ci.org/apache/samza) |
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| [Apache Samza](http://samza.apache.org/) is a distributed stream processing framework. It uses [Apache Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org) for messaging, and [Apache Hadoop YARN](http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html) to provide fault tolerance, processor isolation, security, and resource management. |
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| Samza's key features include: |
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| * **Simple API:** Unlike most low-level messaging system APIs, Samza provides a very simple callback-based "process message" API comparable to MapReduce. |
| * **Managed state:** Samza manages snapshotting and restoration of a stream processor's state. When the processor is restarted, Samza restores its state to a consistent snapshot. Samza is built to handle large amounts of state (many gigabytes per partition). |
| * **Fault tolerance:** Whenever a machine in the cluster fails, Samza works with YARN to transparently migrate your tasks to another machine. |
| * **Durability:** Samza uses Kafka to guarantee that messages are processed in the order they were written to a partition, and that no messages are ever lost. |
| * **Scalability:** Samza is partitioned and distributed at every level. Kafka provides ordered, partitioned, replayable, fault-tolerant streams. YARN provides a distributed environment for Samza containers to run in. |
| * **Pluggable:** Though Samza works out of the box with Kafka and YARN, Samza provides a pluggable API that lets you run Samza with other messaging systems and execution environments. |
| * **Processor isolation:** Samza works with Apache YARN, which supports Hadoop's security model, and resource isolation through Linux CGroups. |
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| Check out [Hello Samza](https://samza.apache.org/startup/hello-samza/latest/) to try Samza. Read the [Background](https://samza.apache.org/learn/documentation/latest/introduction/background.html) page to learn more about Samza. |
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| ### Building Samza |
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| To build Samza from a git checkout, run: |
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| ./gradlew clean build |
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| To build Samza from a source release, it is first necessary to download the gradle wrapper script above. This bootstrapping process requires Gradle to be installed on the source machine. Gradle is available through most package managers or directly from [its website](http://www.gradle.org/). To bootstrap the wrapper, run: |
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| gradle -b bootstrap.gradle |
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| After the bootstrap script has completed, the regular gradlew instructions below are available. |
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| #### Scala and YARN |
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| Samza builds with [Scala](http://www.scala-lang.org/) 2.11 or 2.12 and [YARN](http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html) 2.6.1, by default. Use the -PscalaSuffix switches to change Scala versions. Samza supports building Scala with 2.11 and 2.12. |
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| ./gradlew -PscalaSuffix=2.11 clean build |
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| ### Testing Samza |
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| To run all tests: |
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| ./gradlew clean test |
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| To run a single test: |
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| ./gradlew clean :samza-test:test -Dtest.single=TestStatefulTask |
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| To run key-value performance tests: |
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| ./gradlew samza-shell:kvPerformanceTest -PconfigPath=file://$PWD/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/kv-perf.properties |
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| To run yarn integration tests: |
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| ./bin/integration-tests.sh <dir> yarn-integration-tests |
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| To run standalone integration tests: |
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| ./bin/integration-tests.sh <dir> standalone-integration-tests |
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| ### Running checkstyle on the java code ### |
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| ./gradlew checkstyleMain checkstyleTest |
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| ### Job Management |
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| To run a job (defined in a properties file): |
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| ./gradlew samza-shell:runJob -PconfigPath=/path/to/job/config.properties |
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| To inspect a job's latest checkpoint: |
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| ./gradlew samza-shell:checkpointTool -PconfigPath=/path/to/job/config.properties |
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| To modify a job's checkpoint (assumes that the job is not currently running), give it a file with the new offset for each partition, in the format `systems.<system>.streams.<topic>.partitions.<partition>=<offset>`: |
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| ./gradlew samza-shell:checkpointTool -PconfigPath=/path/to/job/config.properties \ |
| -PnewOffsets=file:///path/to/new/offsets.properties |
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| ### Developers |
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| To get Eclipse projects, run: |
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| ./gradlew eclipse |
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| For IntelliJ, run: |
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| ./gradlew idea |
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| ### Contribution |
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| To start contributing on Samza please read [Rules](http://samza.apache.org/contribute/rules.html) and [Contributor Corner](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SAMZA/Contributor%27s+Corner). Notice that **Samza git repository does not support git pull request**. |
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| ### Apache Software Foundation |
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| Apache Samza is a top level project of the [Apache Software Foundation](http://www.apache.org/). |
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