Spark
Spark ideas
• expressive computing system, not limited to
map-reduce model
• facilitate system memory
– avoid saving intermediate results to disk
– cache data for repetitive queries (e.g. for machine
learning)
• compatible with Hadoop
RDD abstraction
• Resilient Distributed Datasets
• partitioned collection of records
• spread across the cluster
• read-only
• caching dataset in memory
– different storage levels available
– fallback to disk possible
RDD operations
• transformations to build RDDs through
deterministic operations on other RDDs
– transformations include map, filter, join
– lazy operation
• actions to return value or export data
– actions include count, collect, save
– triggers execution
Job example
Driver
val log = sc.textFile(“hdfs://...”)
val errors = file.filter(_.contains(“ERROR”))
errors.cache()
Action!
errors.filter(_.contains(“I/O”)).count()
errors.filter(_.contains(“timeout”)).count()
Worker Worker Worker
Cache1 Cache2 Cache2
Block1 Block2 Block3
RDD partition-level view
Dataset-level view: Partition-level view:
log:
HadoopRDD
path = hdfs://...
errors:
FilteredRDD
func = _.contains(…)
shouldCache = true
Task 1 Task 2 ...
source: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Spark+Internals
Job scheduling
RDD Objects DAGScheduler TaskScheduler Worker
Cluster Threads
DAG TaskSet manager Task Block
manager
rdd1.join(rdd2) split graph into launch tasks via execute tasks
.groupBy(…)
.filter(…)
stages of tasks cluster manager
submit each retry failed or store and serve
build operator DAG
stage as ready straggling tasks blocks
source: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Spark+Internals
Available APIs
• You can write in Java, Scala or Python
• interactive interpreter: Scala & Python only
• standalone applications: any
• performance: Java & Scala are faster thanks to
static typing
Hand on - interpreter
• script
http://cern.ch/kacper/spark.txt
• run scala spark interpreter
$ spark-shell
• or python interpreter
$ pyspark
Summary
• concept not limited to single pass map-reduce
• avoid soring intermediate results on disk or
HDFS
• speedup computations when reusing datasets