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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

Why Hadoop plus Spark?


Apache Spark shines better when it is combined with Hadoop. To understand this, let's take a look at Hadoop and Spark features.

Hadoop features

Feature

Details

Unlimited scalability

Stores unlimited data by scaling out HDFS

Effectively manages cluster resources with YARN

Runs multiple applications along with Spark

Thousands of simultaneous users

Enterprise grade

Provides security with Kerberos authentication and ACLs authorization

Data encryption

High reliability and integrity

Multi-tenancy

Wide range of applications

Files: Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured

Streaming sources: Flume and Kafka

Databases: Any RDBMS and NoSQL database

Spark features

Feature

Details

Easy development

No boilerplate coding

Multiple native APIs such as Java, Scala, Python, and R

REPL for Scala, Python, and R

Optimized performance

Caching

Optimized shuffle

Catalyst Optimizer

Unification

Batch, SQL, machine learning, streaming, and graph processing

High...