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Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By : Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei
Book Image

Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By: Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is an in-memory, cluster-based data processing system that provides a wide range of functionalities such as big data processing, analytics, machine learning, and more. With this Learning Path, you can take your knowledge of Apache Spark to the next level by learning how to expand Spark's functionality and building your own data flow and machine learning programs on this platform. You will work with the different modules in Apache Spark, such as interactive querying with Spark SQL, using DataFrames and datasets, implementing streaming analytics with Spark Streaming, and applying machine learning and deep learning techniques on Spark using MLlib and various external tools. By the end of this elaborately designed Learning Path, you will have all the knowledge you need to master Apache Spark, and build your own big data processing and analytics pipeline quickly and without any hassle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Mastering Apache Spark 2.x by Romeo Kienzler • Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics by Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla • Apache Spark 2.x Machine Learning Cookbook by Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen MeiCookbook
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Structured Streaming

As you might already have understood from the previous chapters, Apache Spark is currently in transition from RDD-based data processing to a more structured one, backed by DataFrames and Datasets in order to let Catalyst and Tungsten kick in for performance optimizations. This means that the community currently uses a double-tracked approach. While the unstructured APIs are still supported--they haven't even been marked as deprecated yet ,and it is questionable if they ever will--a new set of structured APIs has been introduced for various components with Apache Spark V 2.0, and this is also true for Spark Streaming. Structured Steaming was marked stable in Apache Spark V 2.2. Note that, as of Apache Spark V 2.1 when we started writing this chapter, Structured Streaming is was marked as alpha. This is another example of the extreme pace at which Apache Spark is developing.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The concept of continuous applications...