Dataminer

Dataminer is a data mining, fault-tolerant distributed worker queue built for creating job workers simple and quickly. Common routines for processing queues, streaming data into other queues or distributing queues, flush routines into other data sources are all apart of dataminer's core tasks. Dataminer is backed by redis and mongodb.

$ npm install dataminer

Features

• fault-tolerant queues
• worker monitoring
• queue events and progress
• worker specific logging
• powered by Redis & MongoDB
• restful json api
• fault tolerant streams
• exponential and linear backoff

Creating Workers

First to create any standard queue worker that processes items off of a redis queue, use dataminer.createQueue.

dataminer.createQueue(queueName, n, options):

Create a new queue worker to process on queueName. n is the number of calls that will be done at any given time for each job (n = 2 will process 2 jobs at a time for a single process). n defaults to 1. options are extended properties for the worker that include:

• name: A friendly name for a given queue worker (defaults to queueName provided from parameters.
• redis: Redis related options for processing the queue and optionally reporting on the status of the worker.
  • host: defaults to localhost.
  • port: defaults to 6379.
  • options: redis options to the redis client.
  • auth: optional auth parameters to pass to the redis client.
• report: defaults to true to report on the status of the worker once every reportInterval milliseconds.
• reportIntervalMs: defaults to 1000
• progress: defaults to false to update progress with a traceable job id.

var dataminer = require('dataminer'),
    request = require('request');

var downloader = dataminer.createQueue('q-urls');
downloader.process(function (job, done) {

    var contentLength = 0;
    var req = request(job.data.url);
    req.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(job.data.path));
    req.on('response', function (response) {
        contentLength = response['content-length'];
    });
    req.on('data', function (chunk) {
        job.progress(chunk.length, contentLength);
    });
    req.on('error', function (err) {
        done(err);
    });
    req.on('end', function () {
        done();
    }):

});

TODO:

• Add streaming to queue support ala dataminer.createStream
  • Add Twitter Sample Stream Example (use request.pipe)
• Add flush routine support to existing queue workers
  • queueWorker.flush(flushIntervalMs, function () { })
• Add dataminer worker registration
  • dataminer.register(worker, options) (for extended worker support that includes registered id and will live in state on even after the process dies). This is especially useful for when workers have died and it is important to know that from a dashboard.
• Add logging support (injection for different types)

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 [email protected]

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