Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

GraphX

GraphX is another library built on top of the Spark core. It's not that kind of graph where you have lines, pies, charts, bars, and stuff like that. It's "graph" in the sense of graph theory. For example, our social network of superheroes is an example of that kind of a graph. Currently, it is Scala only, although Java support is almost done. As soon as Java support is done, Python support will pretty much follow on top of that, so they're actually very close to getting that done at this time, and by the time you read this book, there's a good chance Python and Java support will exist for GraphX. However, it's currently only useful for some very specific things. Obviously, it's going to evolve over time, but GraphX in its current form ...