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Big Data Analytics

By : Venkat Ankam
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Big Data Analytics

By: Venkat Ankam

Overview of this book

Big Data Analytics book aims at providing the fundamentals of Apache Spark and Hadoop. All Spark components – Spark Core, Spark SQL, DataFrames, Data sets, Conventional Streaming, Structured Streaming, MLlib, Graphx and Hadoop core components – HDFS, MapReduce and Yarn are explored in greater depth with implementation examples on Spark + Hadoop clusters. It is moving away from MapReduce to Spark. So, advantages of Spark over MapReduce are explained at great depth to reap benefits of in-memory speeds. DataFrames API, Data Sources API and new Data set API are explained for building Big Data analytical applications. Real-time data analytics using Spark Streaming with Apache Kafka and HBase is covered to help building streaming applications. New Structured streaming concept is explained with an IOT (Internet of Things) use case. Machine learning techniques are covered using MLLib, ML Pipelines and SparkR and Graph Analytics are covered with GraphX and GraphFrames components of Spark. Readers will also get an opportunity to get started with web based notebooks such as Jupyter, Apache Zeppelin and data flow tool Apache NiFi to analyze and visualize data.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Starting Spark daemons


If you are planning to use a standalone cluster manager, you need to start the Spark master and worker daemons which are the core components in Spark's architecture. Starting/stopping daemons varies slightly from distribution to distribution. Hadoop distributions such as Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR provide Spark as a service with YARN as the default resource manager. This means that all Spark applications will run on the YARN framework by default. But, we need to start spark master and worker roles to use Spark's standalone resource manager. If you are planning to use the YARN resource manager, you don't need to start these daemons. Please follow the following procedure depending on the type of distribution you are using. Downloading and installation instructions can be found in Chapter 2, Getting Started with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, for all these distributions.

Working with CDH

Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) is an open source distribution including...