Effects of Hypervisor on Distributed Big Data Processing in Virtualizated Cluster Environment

Recently, cluster computing environments have been in a process of change toward virtualized cluster environments. The change of the cluster environment has great impact on the performance of large volume distributed processing. Therefore, many domestic and international IT companies have invested heavily in research on cluster environments. In this paper, we show how the hypervisor affects the performance of distributed processing of a large volume of data. We present a performance comparison of MapReduce processing in two virtualized cluster environments, one built using the Xen hypervisor and the other built using the container-based Docker. Our results show that Docker is faster than Xen.