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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


Apache Hadoop provides you with a reliable and scalable framework (HDFS) for Big Data storage and a powerful cluster resource management framework (YARN) to run and manage multiple Big Data applications. Apache Spark provides in-memory performance in Big Data processing and libraries and APIs for interactive exploratory analytics, real-time analytics, machine learning, and graph analytics. While MR was the primary processing engine on top of Hadoop, it had multiple drawbacks, such as poor performance and inflexibility in designing applications. Apache Spark is a replacement for MR. All MR-based tools, such as Hive, Pig, Mahout, and Crunch, have already started offering Apache Spark as an additional execution engine apart from MR.

Nowadays, Big Data projects are being implemented in many businesses, from large Fortune 500 companies to small start-ups. Organizations gain an edge if they can go from raw data to decisions quickly with easy-to-use tools to develop applications and explore...