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Real-Time Big Data Analytics

By : Sumit Gupta, Shilpi Saxena
Book Image

Real-Time Big Data Analytics

By: Sumit Gupta, Shilpi Saxena

Overview of this book

Enterprise has been striving hard to deal with the challenges of data arriving in real time or near real time. Although there are technologies such as Storm and Spark (and many more) that solve the challenges of real-time data, using the appropriate technology/framework for the right business use case is the key to success. This book provides you with the skills required to quickly design, implement and deploy your real-time analytics using real-world examples of big data use cases. From the beginning of the book, we will cover the basics of varied real-time data processing frameworks and technologies. We will discuss and explain the differences between batch and real-time processing in detail, and will also explore the techniques and programming concepts using Apache Storm. Moving on, we’ll familiarize you with “Amazon Kinesis” for real-time data processing on cloud. We will further develop your understanding of real-time analytics through a comprehensive review of Apache Spark along with the high-level architecture and the building blocks of a Spark program. You will learn how to transform your data, get an output from transformations, and persist your results using Spark RDDs, using an interface called Spark SQL to work with Spark. At the end of this book, we will introduce Spark Streaming, the streaming library of Spark, and will walk you through the emerging Lambda Architecture (LA), which provides a hybrid platform for big data processing by combining real-time and precomputed batch data to provide a near real-time view of incoming data.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed Spark SQL as a one-stop solution for processing large data using a mix of SQL-like queries and complex procedural algorithms in-memory, producing results in seconds/minutes but not hours.

We started with the various aspects of Spark SQL including its architecture and various components. We also talked about the complete process of writing Spark SQL jobs in Scala and at the same time, we also talked about various methodologies for converting Spark RDDs into DataFrames. Toward the middle of the chapter, we executed various examples of Spark SQL using different data formats such as Hive/Parquet along with important aspects such as schema evolution and schema merging. Finally at the end, we discussed the various aspects of performance tuning our Spark SQL code/queries.

In the next chapter, we will discuss capturing, processing, and analyzing streaming data using Spark Streaming.