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Apache Spark Graph Processing

Apache Spark Graph Processing

By : Rindra Ramamonjison
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Apache Spark Graph Processing

Apache Spark Graph Processing

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By: Rindra Ramamonjison

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is the next standard of open-source cluster-computing engine for processing big data. Many practical computing problems concern large graphs, like the Web graph and various social networks. The scale of these graphs - in some cases billions of vertices, trillions of edges - poses challenges to their efficient processing. Apache Spark GraphX API combines the advantages of both data-parallel and graph-parallel systems by efficiently expressing graph computation within the Spark data-parallel framework. This book will teach the user to do graphical programming in Apache Spark, apart from an explanation of the entire process of graphical data analysis. You will journey through the creation of graphs, its uses, its exploration and analysis and finally will also cover the conversion of graph elements into graph structures. This book begins with an introduction of the Spark system, its libraries and the Scala Build Tool. Using a hands-on approach, this book will quickly teach you how to install and leverage Spark interactively on the command line and in a standalone Scala program. Then, it presents all the methods for building Spark graphs using illustrative network datasets. Next, it will walk you through the process of exploring, visualizing and analyzing different network characteristics. This book will also teach you how to transform raw datasets into a usable form. In addition, you will learn powerful operations that can be used to transform graph elements and graph structures. Furthermore, this book also teaches how to create custom graph operations that are tailored for specific needs with efficiency in mind. The later chapters of this book cover more advanced topics such as clustering graphs, implementing graph-parallel iterative algorithms and learning methods from graph data.
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Chapter 1. Getting Started with Spark and GraphX

Apache Spark is a cluster-computing platform for the processing of large distributed datasets. Data processing in Spark is both fast and easy, thanks to its optimized parallel computation engine and its flexible and unified API. The core abstraction in Spark is based on the concept of Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD). By extending the MapReduce framework, Spark's Core API makes analytics jobs easier to write. On top of the Core API, Spark offers an integrated set of high-level libraries that can be used for specialized tasks such as graph processing or machine learning. In particular, GraphX is the library to perform graph-parallel processing in Spark.

This chapter will introduce you to Spark and GraphX by building a social network and exploring the links between people in the network. In addition, you will learn to use the Scala Build Tool (SBT) to build and run a Spark program. By the end of this chapter, you will know how to:

  • Install Spark successfully on your computer
  • Experiment with the Spark shell and review Spark's data abstractions
  • Create a graph and explore the links using base RDD and graph operations
  • Build and submit a standalone Spark application with SBT
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