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- VES-HV has been designed as a high-volume variant of the existing VES(JSON) collector, and not a completely new collector
- VES-HV follows the VES-JSON schema - as much as possible
- It uses a PROTO representation of the VES Common Header
- The PROTO files tend to use most encoding effective types defined by GPB to cover Common Header fields.
- It makes routing decisions based mostly on the content of the "Domain" parameter
- It allows to embed Payload of different types (by default hvMeas domain is included)
- VES-HV publishes events on DMaaP-Kafka bus, using native Kafka Interfaces
- Analytics applications impacts
- An analytics application operating on high-volume data needs to be prepared to read directly from Kafka
- An analytics application need to operate on GPB encoded data in order to benefit from GPB encoding efficiencies
- It is assumed, that due to the nature of high volume data, there would have to be dedicated applications provided, able to operate on such volumes of data.
Extendability
VES-HV was designed to allow for extendability - by adding new domain-specific PROTO files.
The PROTO file, which contains the VES CommonHeader, comes with a binary-type Payload parameter, where domain-specific data shall be placed.
Domain-specific data are encoded as well with GPB, and they do require a domain-specific PROTO file to decode the data.
This domain-specific PROTO needs to be shared with analytics applications - VES-HV is not analyzing domain-specific data.
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in order to support the RT-PM use-caseBy default, VES-HV includes a "hvMeas" domain PROTO file, as within this domain, the high volume data is expected to be reported to VES-HV collector.
Still, there are no limitations to define additional domains, based on existing VES domains (like Fault, Heartbeat) or completely new domains. New domains can be added "when needed".
In case of new domains, it is necessary to extend the Common Header PROTO "Domain" enumeration with new values covering this new domain(s).
GPB PROTO files are backwards compatible, and such a new domain could be added without affecting existing systems.
Analytics applications This will allow VES-HV collector to route the events to a proper DMaaP-Kafka topic. Analytics application will have to be as well equipped with this new domain-specific PROTO file.
Currently, these additional, domain specific proto files could be simply added to respective repos of VES-HV collector.