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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

When to use RDDs, Datasets, and DataFrames?


The following table describes the scenarios in which RDDs, Datasets, or DataFrames are to be used:

Scenario

What to use?

Use of the Python programming language

RDDs or DataFrames

Use of the R programming language

DataFrames

Use of the Java or Scala programming languages

RDDs, Datasets, or DataFrames

Unstructured data such as images and videos

RDDs

Use of low level transformations, actions, and controls data flow programmatically

RDDs

Use of high-level domain-specific APIs

Datasets and DataFrames

Use of functional programming constructs to process data

RDDs

Use of higher level expressions including SQLs

Datasets and DataFrames

Imposing structure is not needed and low-level optimizations are not needed

RDDs

High compile time safety and rich optimizations

Datasets

No compile time safety and rich optimizations are needed

DataFrames

Unification is needed across Spark libraries

Datasets or DataFrames