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Big Data Analytics
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Big Data Analytics

by Venkat Ankam, Aravind Nallan
September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
326 pages
6h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Spark applications

Let's understand the difference between spark Shell and spark applications and how they are created and submitted.

Spark Shell versus Spark applications

Spark lets you access your datasets through a simple, yet specialized, Spark shell for Scala, Python, R, and SQL. Users do not need to create a full application to explore the data. They can start exploring data with commands that can be converted to programs later. This provides higher developer productivity. A Spark application is a complete program with SparkContext that is submitted with the spark-submit command.

Scala programs are generally written using Scala IDE or IntelliJ IDEA and SBT is used to compile the programs. Java programs are generally written in Eclipse and compiled ...

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ISBN: 9781785884696