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ML - Can you isolate ML workload from other loads?
emichaud
Vertica Employee Employee
Is it possible to isolate the workload of ML functions from other loads of the Vertica DB?
Asked during the BDC session Model Management and Data Preparation
@WD @Arash_Fard
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Yes! There are several techniques to use, based on how much isolation you need.
1. Use a resource pool. This approach doesn't require any additional hardware, and can limit how much of the existing cluster ML can use.
2. Use a (secondary) subcluster, if you are using Eon and can provision more machines. These machines will have access to an up-to-date copy of all data in the database, and the processing aspect will be fully isolated from the other Vertica nodes.
3. Use import/export, object backup/restore, or similar, to move the data to another fully isolated cluster. This allows work on a snapshot of the data, which has its pros and cons, depending on what kind of ML you are doing.
ML model generation is already segregated by the BLOBDATA resource pool. I don't know if data preparation functions are also similarly isolated, but Chuck's answer still applies there.