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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

Introducing Apache Zeppelin


Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive analytics with built-in visualizations. It supports multiple languages with an interpreter framework. Currently, it supports interpreters such as Spark, Markdown, Shell, Hive, Phoenix, Tajo, Flink, Ignite, Lens, HBase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Geode, PostgreSQL, and Hawq. It can be used for data ingestion, discovery, analytics, and visualizations using notebooks similar to IPython Notebooks. Zeppelin notebooks recognize output from any language and visualize these using the same tools.

The Zeppelin project started as an incubator project in the Apache software foundation in December 2014 and became a top-level project in May 2016. Zeppelin mainly has four components, as shown in the architecture in Figure 6.3:

Figure 6.3: The Zeppelin architecture

The components in the Zeppelin architecture are described as follows:

  • Frontend: This provides UI and shells to interact with humans and a display...