Introduction to Apache Spark. With an emphasis on the RDD API, Spark SQL (DataFrame and Dataset API) and Spark Streaming. Presented at the Desert Code Camp: http://oct2016.desertcodecamp.com/sessions/all

1. Intro to Apache
Spark™
By: Robert Sanders

2. 2Page:
Agenda
• What is Apache Spark?
• Apache Spark Ecosystem
• MapReduce vs. Apache Spark
• Core Spark (RDD API)
• Apache Spark Concepts
• Spark SQL (DataFrame and Dataset API)
• Spark Streaming
• Use Cases
• Next Steps

3. 3Page:
Robert Sanders
• Big Data Manager, Engineer, Architect, etc.
• Work for Clairvoyant LLC
• 5+ Years of Big Data Experience
• Certified Apache Spark Developer
• Email: robert.sanders@clairvoyantsoft.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-sanders-
61446732

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What is Apache Spark?
• Open source data processing engine that runs on a cluster
• https://github.com/apache/spark
• Distributed under the Apache License
• Provides a number of Libraries for Batch, Streaming and
other forms of processing
• Very fast in memory processing engine
• Primarily written in Scala
• Support for Java, Scala, Python, and R
• Version:
• Most Used Version: 1.6.X
• Latest version: 2.0

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Apache Spark EcoSystem
• Apache Spark
• RDDs
• Spark SQL
• Once known as “Shark”
before completely integrated
into Spark
• For SQL, structured and
semi-structured data
processing
• Spark Streaming
• Processing of live data
streams
• MLlib/ML
• Machine Learning Algorithms
Apache Spark, Apache Spark Ecosystem
http://spark.apache.org/images/spark-stack.png

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MapReduce (Hadoop)
Michele Usuelli, Example of MapReduce
http://xiaochongzhang.me/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MapReduce_Work_Structure.png

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MapReduce Bottlenecks and Improvements
• Bottlenecks
• MapReduce is a very I/O heavy operation
• Map phase needs to read from disk then write back out
• Reduce phase needs to read from disk and then write back
out
• How can we improve it?
• RAM is becoming very cheap and abundant
• Use RAM for in-data sharing

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MapReduce vs. Spark (Performance) (Cont.)
• Dayton Gray 100 TB sorting results
• https://databricks.com/blog/2014/10/10/spark-petabyte-sort.html
MapReduce Record Spark Record Spark Record 1PB
Data Size 102.5 TB 100 TB 1000 TB
# Nodes 2100 206 190
# Cores 50400 physical 6592 virtualized 6080 virtualized
Elapsed Time 72 mins 23 mins 234 mins
Sort rate 1.42 TB/min 4.27 TB/min 4.27 TB/min
Sort rate/node 0.67 GB/min 20.7 GB/min 22.5 GB/min

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Running Spark Jobs
• Shell
• Shell for running Scala Code
$ spark-shell
• Shell for running Python Code
$ pyspark
• Shell for running R Code
$ sparkR
• Submitting (Java, Scala, Python, R)
$ spark-submit --class {MAIN_CLASS} [OPTIONS] {PATH_TO_FILE} {ARG0} {ARG1}
… {ARGN}

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SparkContext
• A Spark program first creates a SparkContext object
• Spark Shell automatically creates a SparkContext as the
sc variable
• Tells spark how and where to access a cluster
• Use SparkContext to create RDDs
• Documentation
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html
#org.apache.spark.SparkContext

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Spark Architecture
Apache Spark, Cluster Mode Overview
http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/img/cluster-overview.png

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RDDs
• Primary abstraction object used by Apache Spark
• Resilient Distributed Dataset
• Fault-tolerant
• Collection of elements that can be operated on in parallel
• Distributed collection of data from any source
• Contained in an RDD:
• Set of dependencies on parent RDDs
• Lineage (Directed Acyclic Graph – DAG)
• Set of partitions
• Atomic pieces of a dataset
• A function for computing the RDD based on its parents
• Metadata about its partitioning scheme and data placement

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RDDs (Cont.)
• RDDs are Immutable
• Allows for more effective fault tolerance
• Intended to support abstract datasets while also maintain
MapReduce properties like automatic fault tolerance, locality-aware
scheduling and scalability.
• RDD API built to resemble the Scala Collections API
• Programming Guide
• http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html

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RDDs (Cont.)
• Lazy Evaluation
• Waits for action to be called before distributing actions to worker
nodes
Surendra Pratap Singh - To The New, Working with RDDs
http://www.tothenew.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2015/02/580x402xSpark.jpg.pagespeed.ic.KZMzgXwkwB.jpg

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Create RDD
• Can only be created using the SparkContext or by adding a
Transformation to an existing RDD
• Using the SparkContext:
• Parallelized Collections – take an existing collection and run
functions on it in parallel
rdd = sc.parallelize([ "some", "list", "to", "parallelize"], [numTasks])
• File Datasets – run functions on each record of a file in
Hadoop distributed file system or any other storage system
supported by Hadoop
rdd = sc.textFile("/path/to/file", [numTasks])
rdd = sc.objectFile("/path/to/file", [numTasks])

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API (Overview)
Berkely.edu, Transformations and Actions
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-82.pdf

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Word Count Example
Scala
val textFile =
sc.textFile("/path/to/file.txt")
val counts = textFile
.flatMap(line => line.split(" "))
.map(word => (word, 1))
.reduceByKey(_ + _)
counts.saveAsTextFile("/path/to/output")
Python
text_file =
sc.textFile("/path/to/file.txt")
counts = text_file
.flatMap(lambda line: line.split("
"))
.map(lambda word: (word, 1))
.reduceByKey(lambda a, b: a + b)
counts.saveAsTextFile("/path/to/output")

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Word Count Example (Java 7)
JavaRDD<String> textFile = sc.textFile("/path/to/file.txt");
JavaRDD<String> words = textFile.flatMap(new FlatMapFunction<String,
String>() {
public Iterable<String> call(String line) {
return Arrays.asList(line.split(" "));
}
});
JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> pairs = words.mapToPair(new
PairFunction<String, String, Integer>() {
public Tuple2<String, Integer> call(String word) {
return new Tuple2<String, Integer>(word, 1);
}
});
JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> counts = pairs.reduceByKey(new
Function2<Integer, Integer, Integer>() {
public Integer call(Integer a, Integer b) {
return a + b;
}
});
counts.saveAsTextFile("/path/to/output");

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Word Count Example (Java 8)
JavaRDD<String> textFile = sc.textFile("/path/to/file.txt");
JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> counts = lines
.flatMap(line -> Arrays.asList(line.split(" ")));
.mapToPair(w -> new Tuple2<String, Integer>(w, 1))
.reduceByKey((a, b) -> a + b);
counts.saveAsTextFile("/path/to/output");

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RDD Lineage Graph
val textFile = sc.textFile("/path/to/file.txt")
val counts = textFile.flatMap(line => line.split(" "))
.map(word => (word, 1))
.reduceByKey(_ + _)
counts.toDebugString
res1: String =
(1) ShuffledRDD[7] at reduceByKey at <console>:23 []
+-(1) MapPartitionsRDD[6] at map at <console>:23 []
| MapPartitionsRDD[5] at flatMap at <console>:23 []
| /path/to/file.txt MapPartitionsRDD[3] at textFile at <console>:21
[]
| /path/to/file.txt HadoopRDD[2] at textFile at <console>:21 []

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RDD Persistence
• Each node stores any partitions of it that it computes in
memory and reuses them in other actions on that dataset.
• After marking an RDD to be persisted, the first time the
dataset is computed in an action, it will be kept in memory on
the nodes.
• Allows future actions to be much faster (often by more than
10x) since you’re not re-computing some data every time you
perform an action.
• If data is too big to be cached, then it will spill to disk and
memory will gradually degrade
• Least Recently Used (LRU) replacement policy

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RDD Persistence (Storage Levels)
Storage Level MEANING
MEMORY_ONLY Store RDD as deserialized Java objects in the JVM. If the
RDD does not fit in memory, some partitions will not be
cached and will be recomputed on the fly each time
they're needed. This is the default level.
MEMORY_AND_DISK Store RDD as deserialized Java objects in the JVM. If the
RDD does not fit in memory, store the partitions that don't
fit on disk, and read them from there when they're
needed.
MEMORY_ONLY_SER Store RDD as serialized Java objects (one byte array per
partition). This is generally more space-efficient than
deserialized objects, especially when using a fast
serializer, but more CPU-intensive to read.
MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER Similar to MEMORY_ONLY_SER, but spill partitions that
don't fit in memory to disk instead of re-computing them
on the fly each time they're needed.
DISK_ONLY Store the RDD partitions only on disk.
MEMORY_ONLY_2,
MEMORY_AND_DISK_2, etc.
Same as the levels above, but replicate each partition on
two cluster nodes.

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RDD Persistence APIs
rdd.persist()
rdd.persist(StorageLevel)
• Persist this RDD with the default storage level (MEMORY_ONLY).
• You can override the StorageLevel for fine grain control over persistence
rdd.cache()
• Persists the RDD with the default storage level (MEMORY_ONLY)
rdd.checkpoint()
• RDD will be saved to a file inside the checkpoint directory set with
SparkContext#setCheckpointDir(“/path/to/dir”)
• Used for RDDs with long lineage chains with wide dependencies since it would
be expensive to re-compute
rdd.unpersist()
• Marks it as non-persistent and/or removes all blocks of it from memory and
disk

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Fault Tolerance
• RDDs contain lineage graphs (coarse grained
updates/transformations) to help it rebuild partitions that were lost
• Only the lost partitions of an RDD need to be recomputed upon
failure.
• They can be recomputed in parallel on different nodes without
having to roll back the entire app
• Also lets a system tolerate slow nodes (stragglers) by running a
backup copy of the troubled task.
• Original process on straggling node will be killed when new process
is complete
• Cached/Check pointed partitions are also used to re-compute lost
partitions if available in shared memory

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Spark SQL
• Spark module for structured data processing
• The most popular Spark Module in the Ecosystem
• It is highly recommended to use this the DataFrames or Dataset API
because of the performance benefits
• Runs SQL/HiveQL Queries, optionally alongside or replacing existing Hive
deployments
• Use SQLContext to perform operations
• Run SQL Queries
• Use the DataFrame API
• Use the Dataset API
• White Paper
• http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2015/sigmod_spark_sql.pdf
• Programming Guide:
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

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SQLContext
• Used to Create DataFrames and Datasets
• Spark Shell automatically creates a SparkContext as the sqlContext
variable
• Implementations
• SQLContext
• HiveContext
• An instance of the Spark SQL execution engine that
integrates with data stored in Hive
• Documentation
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html#org.
apache.spark.sql.SQLContext
• As of Spark 2.0 use SparkSession
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html#org.
apache.spark.sql.SparkSession

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DataFrame API
• A distributed collection of rows organized into named columns
• You know the names of the columns and data types
• Like Pandas and R
• Unlike RDDs, DataFrame’s keep track of their schema and support
various relational operations that lead to more optimized execution
• Catalyst Optimizer

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DataFrame API (Cont.)
ogirardot blog, DataFrames API
https://ogirardot.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/rdds-are-the-new-bytecode-of-apache-spark/

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DataFrame API (SQL Queries)
• One use of Spark SQL is to execute SQL queries written using either
a basic SQL syntax or HiveQL
Scala
val df = sqlContext.sql(”<SQL>”)
Python
df = sqlContext.sql(”<SQL>”)
Java
Dataset<Row> df = sqlContext.sql(”<SQL>");

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DataFrame API (DataFrame Reader and Writer)
DataFrameReader
val df = sqlContext.read
.format(”json”)
.option(“samplingRatio”, “0.1”)
.load(“/path/to/file.json”)
DataFrameWriter
sqlContext.write
.format(”parquet”)
.mode(“append”)
.partitionby(“year”)
.saveAsTable(“table_name”)

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DataFrame API
SQL Statement:
SELECT name, avg(age)
FROM people
GROUP BY name
Can be written as:
Scala
sqlContext.table(”people”)
.groupBy(“name”)
.agg(“name”, avg(“age”))
.collect()
Python
sqlContext.table(”people”)
.groupBy(“name”)
.agg(“name”, avg(“age”))
.collect()
Java
Row[] output = sqlContext.table(”<SQL>")
.groupBy(“name”)
.agg(“name”, avg(“age”))
.collect();

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DataFrame API (UDFs)
Scala
val castToInt = uft[Int, String](someStr ->
someStr.toInt
)
val df = sqlContext.table(“users”)
val newDF = df.withColumn(
“birth_year_int”,
castToInt(df.birth_year)
)
Python
castToInt = utf(lambda someStr: int(someStr))
df = sqlContext.table(“users”)
newDF = df.withColumn(
“birth_year_int”,
castToInt(df.birth_year)
)
Java
UDF1 castToInt = new UDF1<String, Integer>() {
public String call(final String someStr) throws Exception {
return Integer.valueOf(someStr);
}
};
sqlContext.udf().register(”castToInt", castToInt, DataTypes.IntegerType);
Dataset<Row> df = sqlContext.table(“users”);
Dataset<Row> newDF = df.withColumn(“birth_year_int”, callUDF(”castToInt",
col(”birth_year")))

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Dataset API
• Dataset is a new interface added in Spark 1.6 that provides the
benefits of RDDs with the benefits of Spark SQL’s optimized
execution engine
• Use the SQLContext
• DataFrame is simply a type alias of Dataset[Row]
• Support
• The unified Dataset API can be used both in Scala and Java
• Python does not yet have support for the Dataset API
• Easily convert DataFrame  Dataset

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Dataset API
Scala
val df = sqlContext.read.json(”people.json”)
case class Person(name: String, age: Long)
val ds: Dataset[Person] = df.as[Person]
Python
Not Supported 
Java
public static class Person implements Serializable {
private String name;
private long age;
/*
Getters and Setters
*/
}
Encoder<Person> personEncoder = Encoders.bean(Person.class);
Dataset[Row] df = sqlContext.read().json(“people.json”);
Dataset<Person> ds = df.as(personEncoder);

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Spark Streaming
• Spark Streaming is an extension of the core Spark API that enables
scalable, high-throughput, fault-tolerant stream processing of live
data streams
Databricks, Spark Streaming
http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html

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Spark Streaming (Cont.)
• Works off the Micro Batch architecture
• Polling ever X Seconds = Batch Interval
• Use the StreamingContext to create DStreams
• DStream = Discretized Streams
• Collection of discrete batches
• Represented as a series of RDDs
• One for each Block Interval in the Batch Interval
• Programming Guide
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-
guide.html
Databricks, Spark Streaming
http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html

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Spark Streaming Example
• Use netcat to stream data from a TCP Socket
$ nc -lk 9999
Scala
import org.apache.spark._
import org.apache.spark.streaming._
val ssc = new StreamingContext(sc,
Seconds(5))
val lines =
ssc.socketTextStream("localhost", 9999)
val wordCounts = lines.flatMap(line =>
line.split(" "))
.map(word => (word, 1))
.reduceByKey(_ + _)
wordCounts.print()
ssc.start()
ssc.awaitTermination()
Python
from pyspark import SparkContext
from pyspark.streaming import
StreamingContext
ssc = new StreamingContext(sc, 5)
lines = ssc.socketTextStream("localhost",
9999)
wordCounts = text_file
.flatMap(lambda line: line.split("
"))
.map(lambda word: (word, 1))
.reduceByKey(lambda a, b: a + b)
wordCounts.print()
ssc.start()
ssc.awaitTermination()

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Spark Streaming Example (Java)
import org.apache.spark.*;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.*;
import org.apache.spark.streaming.*;
import org.apache.spark.streaming.api.java.*;
import scala.Tuple2;
JavaStreamingContext jssc = new JavaStreamingContext(sc, Durations.seconds(5));
JavaReceiverInputDStream<String> lines = jssc.socketTextStream("localhost", 9999);
JavaRDD<String> words = lines.flatMap(new FlatMapFunction<String, String>() {
public Iterable<String> call(String line) { return Arrays.asList(line.split(" "));}
});
JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> pairs = words.mapToPair(new PairFunction<String, String,
Integer>() {
public Tuple2<String, Integer> call(String word) { return new Tuple2<String,
Integer>(word, 1); }
});
JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> counts = pairs.reduceByKey(new Function2<Integer, Integer,
Integer>() {
public Integer call(Integer a, Integer b) { return a + b; }
});
wordCounts.print();
jssc.start()
jssc.awaitTermination();

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Spark Streaming Dangers
• SparkStreaming processes one Batch at a time
• If the processing of each Batch takes longer then the Batch Interval
you could see issues
• Back Pressure
• Buffering
• Eventually you’ll see the Stream crash

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Use Case #1 – Streaming
• Ingest data from RabbitMQ into Hadoop using Spark Streaming

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Use Case #2 – ETL
• Perform ETL with Spark

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Learn More (Courses and Videos)
• MapR Academy
• http://learn.mapr.com/dev-360-apache-spark-essentials
• edx
• https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-apache-spark-uc-berkeleyx-
cs105x
• https://www.edx.org/course/distributed-machine-learning-apache-uc-
berkeleyx-cs120x
• https://www.edx.org/course/big-data-analysis-apache-spark-uc-
berkeleyx-cs110x
• https://www.edx.org/xseries/data-science-engineering-apache-spark
• Coursera
• https://www.coursera.org/learn/big-data-analysys
• Apache Spark YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w
• Spark Summit
• https://spark-summit.org/2016/schedule/

43. Interested in learning more
about SparkSQL?
Well here’s an additional
Desert Code Camp session
to attend:
Getting started with SparkSQL
Presenter: Avinash Ramineni
Room: AH-1240
Time: 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM

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References
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Spark
• http://spark.apache.org/news/spark-wins-daytona-gray-sort-100tb-
benchmark.html
• https://www.datanami.com/2016/06/08/apache-spark-adoption-
numbers/
• http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~matei/papers/2011/tr_spark.pdf
• http://training.databricks.com/workshop/itas_workshop.pdf
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/programming-guide.html
• https://github.com/databricks/learning-spark

45. Q&A