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Apache Spark Quick Start Guide
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Apache Spark Quick Start Guide

by Shrey Mehrotra, Akash Grade
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
154 pages
4h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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GraphX

Spark provides the low-level API, GraphX, to work with graphs and it makes use of RDDs underneath. Although you may wish to write your own package for graph processing, GraphX comes with some of the optimizations handy. One of the key challenges in graph analysis is data movement. GraphX tackles these challenges by providing features such as the following:

  • Routing table: This table holds information about partitions that have a reference to a particular vertex
  • Caching of vertex information: Caching vertex properties for all edge partition data

In GraphX, you store vertex and edge information in RDDs. It is very easy to define a graph in GraphX. All you need is two RDDs representing both vertices and edges. The following example shows ...

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ISBN: 9781789349108