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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

Advanced concepts of Spark Streaming


Let's go through some of the important advanced concepts of Spark Streaming.

Using DataFrames

We learned Spark SQL and DataFrames in Chapter 4, Big Data Analytics with Spark SQL, DataFrames, and Datasets. There are many use cases where you want to convert DStream and DataFrame to do interactive analytics. RDDs generated by DStreams can be converted to DataFrames and queried with SQL internally within the program or from external SQL clients as well. Refer to the sql_network_wordcount.py program in /usr/lib/spark/examples/lib/streaming for implementing SQL in a Spark Streaming application. You can also start JDBC server within the application with the following code:

HiveThriftServer2.startWithContext(hiveContext)

Temporary tables can now be accessed from any SQL client such as beeline to query the data.

MLlib operations

It is easy to implement machine learning algorithms in Spark Streaming applications. The following Scala code trains a KMeans clustering model...