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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

Installing Hadoop plus Spark clusters


Before installing Hadoop and Spark, let's understand the versions of Hadoop and Spark. Spark is offered as a service in all three popular Hadoop distributions from Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR. The current Hadoop and Spark versions are 2.7.2 and 2.0 respectively as of writing this book. However, Hadoop distributions might have a lower version of Spark as Hadoop and Spark release cycles do not coincide.

For the upcoming chapters' practical exercises, let's use one of the free virtual machines (VM) from Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR, or use an open source version of Apache Spark. These VMs makes it easy to get started with Spark and Hadoop. The same exercises can be run on bigger clusters as well.

The prerequisites to use virtual machines on your laptop are as follows:

  • RAM of 8 GB and above

  • At least two virtual CPUs

  • The latest VMWare Player or Oracle VirtualBox must be installed for Windows or Linux OS

  • The latest Oracle VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion for Mac...