This document provides an introduction to Apache Spark presented by Maxime Dumas of Cloudera. It discusses: 1. What Cloudera does including distributing Hadoop components with enterprise tooling and support. 2. An overview of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem including why Hadoop is used for scalability, efficiency, and flexibility with large amounts of data. 3. An introduction to Apache Spark which improves on MapReduce by being faster, easier to use, and supporting more types of applications such as machine learning and graph processing. Spark can be 100x faster than MapReduce for certain applications.

1. CONFIDENTIAL - RESTRICTED
Introduction to Spark
SDBigData Meetup #6
January 14th 2015
Maxime Dumas
Systems Engineer, Cloudera

2. Thirty Seconds About Max
• Systems Engineer
• aka Sales Engineer
• SoCal, AZ, NV
• former coder of PHP
• teaches meditation + yoga
• avid cyclist
• from Montreal, Canada
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3. What Does Cloudera Do?
• product
• distribution of Hadoop components, Apache licensed
• enterprise tooling
• support
• training
• services (aka consulting)
• community
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Quick and dirty, for context.
The Apache Hadoop Ecosystem

5. ©2014 Cloudera, Inc. All rights
reserved.
• Scalability
• Simply scales just by adding nodes
• Local processing to avoid network bottlenecks
• Efficiency
• Cost efficiency (<$1k/TB) on commodity hardware
• Unified storage, metadata, security (no duplication or
synchronization)
• Flexibility
• All kinds of data (blobs, documents, records, etc)
• In all forms (structured, semi-structured, unstructured)
• Store anything then later analyze what you need
Why Hadoop?

6. Why “Ecosystem?”
• In the beginning, just Hadoop
• HDFS
• MapReduce
• Today, dozens of interrelated components
• I/O
• Processing
• Specialty Applications
• Configuration
• Workflow
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7. HDFS
• Distributed, highly fault-tolerant filesystem
• Optimized for large streaming access to data
• Based on Google File System
• http://research.google.com/archive/gfs.html
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8. Lots of Commodity Machines
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Image:Yahoo! Hadoop cluster [ OSCON ’07 ]

9. MapReduce (MR)
• Programming paradigm
• Batch oriented, not realtime
• Works well with distributed computing
• Lots of Java, but other languages supported
• Based on Google’s paper
• http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html
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10. Apache Hive
• Abstraction of Hadoop’s Java API
• HiveQL “compiles” down to MR
• a “SQL-like” language
• Eases analysis using MapReduce
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11. CDH: the App Store for Hadoop
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Integration
Storage
Resource Management
Metadata
NoSQL
DBMS
…
Analytic
MPP
DBMS
Search
Engine
In-
Memory
Batch
Processing
System
Management
Data
Management
Support
Security
Machine
Learning
MapReduce

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Introduction to Apache Spark
Credits:
• Ben White
• Todd Lipcon
• Ted Malaska
• Jairam Ranganathan
• Jayant Shekhar
• Sandy Ryza

13. Can we improve on MR?
• Problems with MR:
• Very low-level: requires a lot of code to do simple
things
• Very constrained: everything must be described as
“map” and “reduce”. Powerful but sometimes
difficult to think in these terms.
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14. Can we improve on MR?
• Two approaches to improve on MapReduce:
1. Special purpose systems to solve one problem domain
well.
• Giraph / Graphlab (graph processing)
• Storm (stream processing)
• Impala (real-time SQL)
2. Generalize the capabilities of MapReduce to
provide a richer foundation to solve problems.
• Tez, MPI, Hama/Pregel (BSP), Dryad (arbitrary DAGs)
Both are viable strategies depending on the problem!
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15. What is Apache Spark?
Spark is a general purpose computational framework
Retains the advantages of MapReduce:
• Linear scalability
• Fault-tolerance
• Data Locality based computations
…but offers so much more:
• Leverages distributed memory for better performance
• Supports iterative algorithms that are not feasible in MR
• Improved developer experience
• Full Directed Graph expressions for data parallel computations
• Comes with libraries for machine learning, graph analysis, etc.
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16. What is Apache Spark?
Run programs up to 100x faster than Hadoop
MapReduce in memory, or 10x faster on disk.
One of the largest open source projects in big data:
• 170+ developers contributing
• 30+ companies contributing
• 400+ discussions per month on the mailing list
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17. Popular project
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18. Getting started with Spark
• Java API
• Interactive shells:
• Scala (spark-shell)
• Python (pyspark)
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19. Execution modes
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20. Execution modes
• Standalone Mode
• Dedicated master and worker daemons
• YARN Client Mode
• Launches a YARN application with the
driver program running locally
• YARN Cluster Mode
• Launches a YARN application with the
driver program running in the YARN
ApplicationMaster
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Dynamic resource
management
between Spark,
MR, Impala…
Dedicated Spark
runtime with static
resource limits

21. Spark Concepts
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22. RDD – Resilient Distributed Dataset
• Collections of objects partitioned across a cluster
• Stored in RAM or on Disk
• You can control persistence and partitioning
• Created by:
• Distributing local collection objects
• Transformation of data in storage
• Transformation of RDDs
• Automatically rebuilt on failure (resilient)
• Contains lineage to compute from storage
• Lazy materialization
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23. RDD transformations
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24. Operations on RDDs
Transformations lazily transform a RDD
to a new RDD
• map
• flatMap
• filter
• sample
• join
• sort
• reduceByKey
• …
Actions run computation to return a
value
• collect
• reduce(func)
• foreach(func)
• count
• first, take(n)
• saveAs
• …
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25. Fault Tolerance
• RDDs contain lineage.
• Lineage – source location and list of transformations
• Lost partitions can be re-computed from source data
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msgs = textFile.filter(lambda s: s.startsWith(“ERROR”))
.map(lambda s: s.split(“t”)[2])
HDFS File Filtered RDD Mapped RDD
filter
(func = startsWith(…))
map
(func = split(...))

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Examples

27. Word Count in MapReduce
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package org.myorg;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.TextOutputFormat;
public class WordCount {
public static class Map extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, IntWritable> {
private final static IntWritable one = new IntWritable(1);
private Text word = new Text();
public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException,
InterruptedException {
String line = value.toString();
StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line);
while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
word.set(tokenizer.nextToken());
context.write(word, one);
}
}
}
public static class Reduce extends Reducer<Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable> {
public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<IntWritable> values, Context context)
throws IOException, InterruptedException {
int sum = 0;
for (IntWritable val : values) {
sum += val.get();
}
context.write(key, new IntWritable(sum));
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Configuration conf = new Configuration();
Job job = new Job(conf, "wordcount");
job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
job.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);
job.setMapperClass(Map.class);
job.setReducerClass(Reduce.class);
job.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
job.setOutputFormatClass(TextOutputFormat.class);
FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(args[0]));
FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));
job.waitForCompletion(true);
}
}

28. Word Count in Spark
sc.textFile(“words”)
.flatMap(line => line.split(" "))
.map(word=>(word,1))
.reduceByKey(_+_).collect()
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29. Logistic Regression
• Read two sets of points
• Looks for a plane W that separates them
• Perform gradient descent:
• Start with random W
• On each iteration, sum a function of W over the data
• Move W in a direction that improves it
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30. Intuition
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31. Logistic Regression
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32. Logistic Regression Performance
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Spark and Hadoop:
a Framework within a Framework

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Integration
Storage
Resource Management
Metadata
HBase …Impala Solr Spark
Map
Reduce
System
Management
Data
Management
Support
Security

36. Spark Streaming
• Takes the concept of RDDs and extends it to DStreams
• Fault-tolerant like RDDs
• Transformable like RDDs
• Adds new “rolling window” operations
• Rolling averages, etc.
• But keeps everything else!
• Regular Spark code works in Spark Streaming
• Can still access HDFS data, etc.
• Example use cases:
• “On-the-fly” ETL as data is ingested into Hadoop/HDFS.
• Detecting anomalous behavior and triggering alerts.
• Continuous reporting of summary metrics for incoming data.
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37. Micro-batching for on the fly ETL
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38. What about SQL?
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http://databricks.com/blog/2014/07/01/shark-spark-sql-hive-on-spark-and-the-future-of-sql-on-spark.html
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/07/apache-hive-on-apache-spark-motivations-and-design-principles/

39. Fault Recovery Recap
• RDDs store dependency graph
• Because RDDs are deterministic:
Missing RDDs are rebuilt in parallel on other nodes
• Stateful RDDs can have infinite lineage
• Periodic checkpoints to disk clears lineage
• Faster recovery times
• Better handling of stragglers vs row-by-row streaming
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40. Why Spark?
• Flexible like MapReduce
• High performance
• Machine learning,
iterative algorithms
• Interactive data
explorations
• Concise, easy API for
developer productivity
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Demo Time!
• Log file Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Spark Streaming

42. What’s Next?
• Download Hadoop!
• CDH available at www.cloudera.com
• Try it online: Cloudera Live
• Cloudera provides pre-loaded VMs
• http://tiny.cloudera.com/quickstartvm
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Preferably related to the talk… or not.
Questions?

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Thank You!
Maxime Dumas
mdumas@cloudera.com
We’re hiring.

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