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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

Spark applications


Let's understand the difference between spark Shell and spark applications and how they are created and submitted.

Spark Shell versus Spark applications

Spark lets you access your datasets through a simple, yet specialized, Spark shell for Scala, Python, R, and SQL. Users do not need to create a full application to explore the data. They can start exploring data with commands that can be converted to programs later. This provides higher developer productivity. A Spark application is a complete program with SparkContext that is submitted with the spark-submit command.

Scala programs are generally written using Scala IDE or IntelliJ IDEA and SBT is used to compile the programs. Java programs are generally written in Eclipse and compiled with Maven. Python and R programs can be written in any text editor and also using IDEs such as Eclipse. Once the Scala and Java programs are written, they are compiled and executed with the spark-submit command as shown in the following. Since...