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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


Spark Streaming is based on a micro-batching model that is suitable for applications with throughput and high latency (> 0.5 seconds). Spark Streaming's DStream API provides transformations and actions for working with DStreams, including conventional transformations, window operations, output actions, and stateful operations such as updateStateByKey. Spark Streaming supports a variety of input sources and output sources used in the Big Data ecosystem. Spark Streaming supports the direct approach with Kafka, which really provides great benefits such as exactly once processing and avoiding WAL replication.

There are two types of failures in a Spark Streaming application; executor failure and driver failure. Executor failures are automatically taken care of by the Spark Streaming framework, but for handling driver failures, checkpointing and WAL must be enabled with high availability options for the driver such as --supervise.

Structured Streaming is a new paradigm shift in streaming...