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Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

By : Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla
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Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

By: Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla

Overview of this book

Scala has been observing wide adoption over the past few years, especially in the field of data science and analytics. Spark, built on Scala, has gained a lot of recognition and is being used widely in productions. Thus, if you want to leverage the power of Scala and Spark to make sense of big data, this book is for you. The first part introduces you to Scala, helping you understand the object-oriented and functional programming concepts needed for Spark application development. It then moves on to Spark to cover the basic abstractions using RDD and DataFrame. This will help you develop scalable and fault-tolerant streaming applications by analyzing structured and unstructured data using SparkSQL, GraphX, and Spark structured streaming. Finally, the book moves on to some advanced topics, such as monitoring, configuration, debugging, testing, and deployment. You will also learn how to develop Spark applications using SparkR and PySpark APIs, interactive data analytics using Zeppelin, and in-memory data processing with Alluxio. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of Spark, and you will be able to perform full-stack data analytics with a feel that no amount of data is too big.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Spark architecture in a cluster

Hadoop-based MapReduce framework has been widely used for the last few years; however, it has some issues with I/O, algorithmic complexity, low-latency streaming jobs, and fully disk-based operation. Hadoop provides the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for efficient computing and storing big data cheaply, but you can only do the computations with a high-latency batch model or static data using the Hadoop-based MapReduce framework. The main big data paradigm that Spark has brought for us is the introduction of in-memory computing and caching abstraction. This makes Spark ideal for large-scale data processing and enables the computing nodes to perform multiple operations by accessing the same input data.

Spark's Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) model can do everything that the MapReduce paradigm can, and even more. Nevertheless, Spark...