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Learning Apache Spark 2

You're reading from   Learning Apache Spark 2 A beginner's guide to real-time Big Data processing using the Apache Spark framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885136
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Muhammad Asif Abbasi Muhammad Asif Abbasi
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Preface 1. Architecture and Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. Transformations and Actions with Spark RDDs 3. ETL with Spark 4. Spark SQL 5. Spark Streaming 6. Machine Learning with Spark 7. GraphX 8. Operating in Clustered Mode 9. Building a Recommendation System 10. Customer Churn Prediction Theres More with Spark

GraphFrames


Having seen GraphX over the course of this chapter, have you not wondered what happened to DataFrame? If you are reading/following this book cover to cover, you might be asking yourself why is there a switch between RDD and the DataFrame API? We saw that DataFrame has become the primary API for Spark, and all new optimizations can only be benefitted from if you are using a DataFrame API, so why is there no DataFrame API for GraphX?

Well the reality is that there is a lot of focus on GraphFrames, which is the DataFrame based API for graphs in Spark. There are certain motivations to have a DataFrame based API for Spark and some of these stem from some shortcomings of GraphX.

Why GraphFrames?

GraphX poses certain challenges, for example:

  • Supports Scala only: The promise of Spark lies in the fact that you can have the same set of algorithms available to a wide variety of users, who can program in Java, Scala, Python, or R. GraphX only supports Scala API. This is a serious limitation...
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