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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 5. Apache SparkML

So now that you've learned a lot about MLlib, why another ML API? First of all, it is a common task in data science to work with multiple frameworks and ML libraries as there are always advantages and disadvantages; mostly, it is a trade-off between performance and functionality. R, for instance, is the king when it comes to functionality--there exist more than 6000 R add-on packages. However, R is also one of the slowest execution environments for data science. SparkML, on the other hand, currently has relatively limited functionality but is one of the fastest libraries. Why is this so? This brings us to the second reason why SparkML exists.

The duality between RDD on the one hand and DataFrames and Datasets on the other is like a red thread in this book and doesn't stop influencing the machine learning chapters. As MLlib is designed to work on top of RDDs, SparkML works on top of DataFrames and Datasets, therefore making use of all the new performance benefits...