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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

The Livy REST job server and Hue Notebooks


Hadoop User Experience (Hue) introduced Spark-based notebooks, which are inspired by IPython Notebooks. The Spark Notebook works on the Livy REST job server backend to provide Spark as a service to end users.

Hue Notebooks are similar to IPython Notebooks or Zeppelin Notebooks, which are integrated well with Hadoop ecosystem components. Notebooks support Scala, Python, and R languages, and Hive and Impala queries. They can be shared with import/export and sharing features. Visualizations can be done with a variety of charts and graphs. Hue supports a multiuser environment with impersonation.

Livy is a Spark REST job server that can submit and interact with Spark jobs from anywhere. It is inspired by the popular IPython/Jupyter and Spark REST job server, but implemented to better integrate the Hadoop ecosystem with multiple users. With the Livy server, Spark can be offered as a service to users in the following two ways:

  • Instead of every user creating...