May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
In this section, we’ll overview Apache Spark. We’ll use the Python PySpark library and Spark’s functional-style filter/map/reduce capabilities to implement a simple word count example that summarizes the word counts in Romeo and Juliet.
When you process truly big data, performance is crucial. Hadoop is geared to disk-based batch processing—reading the data from disk, processing the data and writing the results back to disk. Many big-data applications demand better performance than is possible with disk-intensive operations. In particular, fast streaming applications that require either real-time or near-real-time processing won’t work in a disk-based architecture.
Spark was initially developed in 2009 ...
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