NSEDS: One Implementation of Lambda Architecture in Large-scale Seismic Exploration Scenes

The lambda architecture is a well-proven and successful system architecture approach in the field of big data, with the qualities of being resilient and fault-tolerant, scalable, and extensible, and many big data systems are built using this solution. Simultaneously, due to the seismic exploration industry being very specialized, the construction concept for its data collecting and processing system remained in the "stand-alone" system developing era. However, with the advancement of low-power integrated sensor technology such as MEMS, the sensor network of seismic exploration equipment is getting larger, the data collected (velocity, acceleration, electric field, magnetic field, and gravitational field) is getting much more accurate, and the system transmission and processing bandwidth required by the system is getting higher. The "stand-alone" system developing mode is obviously incapable of keeping up with the industry's development. As a result, we developed an experimental system for data acquisition and processing in large-scale seismic exploration based on the lambda system architecture, which is named NSEDS (Next Seismic Exploration Data System). The evaluation results demonstrate that NSEDS can achieve the design goals. This paper will have some reference values for seismic exploration and other IoT systems that have the same characteristics.