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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

Data Sources API


The Data Sources API provides a single interface for loading and storing data using Spark SQL. In addition to the built-in sources, this API provides an easy way for developers to add support for custom data sources. All available external packages are listed at http://spark-packages.org/. Let's learn how to use built-in sources and external sources in this section.

Read and write functions

The Data Sources API provides generic read and write functions that can used for any kind of data source. Generic read and write functions provide two functionalities as given in the following:

  • Parses text records, JSON records, and other formats and deserializes data stored in binary

  • Converts Java objects to rows of Avro, JSON, Parquet, and HBase records

The default data source is set to parquet with the spark.sql.sources.default configuration property. This can be changed as needed.

Built-in sources

Built-in sources are pre-packaged with Spark by default. Examples of built-in sources are Text...