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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

Why do we need just another library?


In order to answer this question, we have to know something about SystemML's history, which began ten years ago in 2007 as a research project in the IBM Almaden Research Lab in California. The project was driven by the intention to improve the workflow of data scientists, especially those who want to improve and add functionality to existing machine learning algorithms.

Note

So, SystemML is a declarative markup language that can transparently distribute work on Apache Spark. It supports Scale-up using multithreading and SIMD instructions on CPUs as well as GPUs and also Scale-out using a cluster, and of course, both together.

Finally, there is a cost-based optimizer in place to generate low-level execution plans taking statistics about the Dataset sizes into account. In other words, Apache SystemML is for machine learning, what Catalyst and Tungsten are for DataFrames.

Why on Apache Spark?

Apache Spark solves a lot of common issues in data processing and machine...