Chapter 1. Getting Started with Spark and GraphX
Apache Spark is a cluster-computing platform for the processing of large distributed datasets. Data processing in Spark is both fast and easy, thanks to its optimized parallel computation engine and its flexible and unified API. The core abstraction in Spark is based on the concept of Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD). By extending the MapReduce framework, Spark's Core API makes analytics jobs easier to write. On top of the Core API, Spark offers an integrated set of high-level libraries that can be used for specialized tasks such as graph processing or machine learning. In particular, GraphX is the library to perform graph-parallel processing in Spark.
This chapter will introduce you to Spark ...
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