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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

Summary


SparkR overcomes R's single-threaded process issues and memory limitations with Spark's distributed in-memory processing engine. SparkR provides distributed DataFrame based on DataFrame API and Distributed machine learning using MLlib. SparkR automatically inherits Data Sources API and DataFrame optimizations of Spark engines to provide higher scalability. SparkR is really useful for iterative algorithms instead of using R with Hadoop, which is MapReduce-based.

SparkR can be invoked from shells, scripts, RStudio, as well as Zeppelin notebooks. It can be used with local, standalone, and YARN resource managers. Using the Data Sources API, any external data can be imported to SparkR without any additional coding.

Big Data analytics with Spark and Hadoop is becoming extremely popular and organizations are reaping the benefits of higher scalability and performance with ease of use. While there are plenty of tools available on both Spark and Hadoop, one has to pick the right tool suitable...