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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

Summary


As the complexity of data grows, data can be better represented by a graph rather than a collection. Graph databases such as Neo4J or Titan, or graph-processing systems such as Apache Giraph or GraphX are used for graph analytics. Apache Giraph is based on Hadoop, which is stable and can be used for pure graph-related problems. GraphX is a graph processing system on top of Spark and can be used if the graph is part of the problem. GraphX integrates well with other components of Spark to unify ETL, exploratory analytics, and graph processing.

GraphX can be used for various operations such as creating graphs, counting, filtering, degrees, triplets, modifying, joining, transforming attributes, VertexRDD, and EdgeRDD operations. It also provides GraphX algorithms such as triangle counting, connected components, label propagation, PageRank, SVD++, and shortest paths.

GraphFrames is a DataFrame-based external Spark package that provides performance optimizations and also additional functionalities...