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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

The Mahout and Spark integration


Apache Mahout was a general machine learning library built on top of Hadoop. Mahout started out primarily as a Java MapReduce package to run machine learning algorithms. As machine learning algorithms are iterative in nature, MapReduce had major performance and scalability issues, so Mahout stopped the development of MapReduce-based algorithms and started supporting new platforms, such as Spark, H2O, and Flink, with a new package called Samsara.

Let's install Mahout, explore the Mahout shell with Scala bindings, and then build a recommendation system.

Installing Mahout

The latest version of Spark does not work well with Mahout yet, so I used the Spark 1.4.1 version with the Mahout 0.12.2 version. Download the Spark prebuilt binary from the following location and start Spark daemons:

wget http://d3kbcqa49mib13.cloudfront.net/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6.tgz
tar xzvf spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6.tgz
cd spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6

Now, let's download the Mahout binaries...