This presentation discusses how to use Redis and Spark Structured Streaming to process streaming data at scale. The solution breaks down into three functional blocks - data ingest using Redis Streams, data processing using Spark Structured Streaming, and data querying using Spark SQL. Redis Streams are used to ingest streaming click data, Spark Structured Streaming processes the data in micro-batches, and Spark SQL queries the processed data stored as Redis hashes. This combination provides a scalable solution to continuously collect, process, and query data streams in real-time.

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2. Roshan Kumar, Redis Labs
@roshankumar
Redis + Structured Streaming:
A Perfect Combination to Scale-out Your
Continuous Applications
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3. This Presentation is About….
How to collect and process data stream in real-time at scale
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5. http://bit.ly/spark-redis

6. Breaking up Our Solution into Functional Blocks
Click data
Record all clicks Count clicks in real-time Query clicks by assets
2. Data Processing1. Data Ingest 3. Data Querying

7. ClickAnalyzer
Redis Stream Redis Hash Spark SQLStructured Stream Processing
1. Data Ingest 2. Data Processing 3. Data Querying
The Actual Building Blocks of Our Solution
Click data

8. 1. Data Ingest
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9. ClickAnalyzer
Redis Stream Redis Hash Spark SQLStructured Stream Processing
1. Data Ingest 2. Data Processing 3. Data Querying
Data Ingest using Redis Streams

10. What is Redis Streams?

11. Redis Streams in its Simplest Form

12. Redis Streams Connects Many Producers and Consumers

13. Comparing Redis Streams with Redis Pub/Sub, Lists, Sorted Sets
Pub/Sub
• Fire and forget
• No persistence
• No lookback
queries
Lists
• Tight coupling between
producers and
consumers
• Persistence for
transient data only
• No lookback queries
Sorted
Sets
• Data ordering isn’t built-in;
producer controls the
order
• No maximum limit
• The data structure is not
designed to handle data
streams

14. What is Redis Streams?
Pub/Sub Lists Sorted Sets
It is like Pub/Sub, but
with persistence
It is like Lists, but decouples
producers and consumers
It is like Sorted Sets,
but asynchronous
+
• Lifecycle management of streaming data
• Built-in support for timeseries data
• A rich choice of options to the consumers to read streaming and static data
• Super fast lookback queries powered by radix trees
• Automatic eviction of data based on the upper limit

15. Redis Streams Benefits
It enables asynchronous data exchange between producers and
consumers and historical range queries

16. Redis Streams Benefits
With consumer groups, you can scale out and avoid backlogs

17. Redis Streams Benefits
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Simplify data collection, processing and
distribution to support complex scenarios

18. Data Ingest Solution
Redis Stream
1. Data Ingest
Command
xadd clickstream * img [image_id]
Sample data
127.0.0.1:6379> xrange clickstream - +
1) 1) "1553536458910-0"
2) 1) ”image_1"
2) "1"
2) 1) "1553536469080-0"
2) 1) ”image_3"
2) "1"
3) 1) "1553536489620-0"
2) 1) ”image_3"
2) "1”
.
.
.
.

19. 2. Data Processing
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20. ClickAnalyzer
Redis Stream Redis Hash Spark SQLStructured Stream Processing
1. Data Ingest 2. Data Processing 3. Data Querying
Data Processing using Spark’s Structured Streaming

21. What is Structured Streaming?

22. “Structured Streaming provides fast, scalable, fault-
tolerant, end-to-end exactly-once stream processing
without the user having to reason about streaming.”
Definition

23. How Structured Streaming Works?
Micro-batches as
DataFrames (tables)
Source: Data Stream
DataFrame Operations
Selection: df.select(“xyz”).where(“a > 10”)
Filtering: df.filter(_.a > 10).map(_.b)
Aggregation: df.groupBy(”xyz").count()
Windowing: df.groupBy(
window($"timestamp", "10 minutes", "5 minutes"),
$"word"”
).count()
Deduplication: df.dropDuplicates("guid")
Output Sink
Spark Structured Streaming

24. ClickAnalyzer
Redis Stream Redis HashStructured Stream Processing
Redis Streams as data source
Spark-Redis Library
Redis as data sink
§ Developed using Scala
§ Compatible with Spark 2.3 and higher
§ Supports
• RDD
• DataFrames
• Structured Streaming

25. Redis Streams as Data Source
1. Connect to the Redis instance
2. Map Redis Stream to Structured Streaming schema
3. Create the query object
4. Run the query

26. Code Walkthrough: Redis Streams as Data Source
1. Connect to the Redis instance
val spark = SparkSession.builder()
.appName("redis-df")
.master("local[*]")
.config("spark.redis.host", "localhost")
.config("spark.redis.port", "6379")
.getOrCreate()
val clickstream = spark.readStream
.format("redis")
.option("stream.keys","clickstream")
.schema(StructType(Array(
StructField("img", StringType)
)))
.load()
val queryByImg = clickstream.groupBy("img").count

27. Code Walkthrough: Redis Streams as Data Source
2. Map Redis Stream to Structured Streaming schema
val spark = SparkSession.builder()
.appName("redis-df")
.master("local[*]")
.config("spark.redis.host", "localhost")
.config("spark.redis.port", "6379")
.getOrCreate()
val clickstream = spark.readStream
.format("redis")
.option("stream.keys","clickstream")
.schema(StructType(Array(
StructField("img", StringType)
)))
.load()
val queryByImg = clickstream.groupBy("img").count
xadd clickstream * img [image_id]

28. Code Walkthrough: Redis Streams as Data Source
3. Create the query object
val spark = SparkSession.builder()
.appName("redis-df")
.master("local[*]")
.config("spark.redis.host", "localhost")
.config("spark.redis.port", "6379")
.getOrCreate()
val clickstream = spark.readStream
.format("redis")
.option("stream.keys","clickstream")
.schema(StructType(Array(
StructField("img", StringType)
)))
.load()
val queryByImg = clickstream.groupBy("img").count

29. Code Walkthrough: Redis Streams as Data Source
4. Run the query
val clickstream = spark.readStream
.format("redis")
.option("stream.keys","clickstream")
.schema(StructType(Array(
StructField("img", StringType)
)))
.load()
val queryByImg = clickstream.groupBy("img").count
val clickWriter: ClickForeachWriter = new ClickForeachWriter("localhost","6379")
val query = queryByImg.writeStream
.outputMode("update")
.foreach(clickWriter)
.start()
query.awaitTermination()
Custom output sink

30. Redis as Output Sink
override def process(record: Row) = {
var img = record.getString(0);
var count = record.getLong(1);
if(jedis == null){
connect()
}
jedis.hset("clicks:"+img, "img", img)
jedis.hset("clicks:"+img, "count", count.toString)
}
Create a custom class extending ForeachWriter and override the method, process()
Save as Hash with structure
clicks:[image]
img [image]
count [count]
Example
clicks:image_1001
img image_1001
count 1029
clicks:image_1002
img image_1002
count 392
.
.
.
.
img count
image_1001 1029
image_1002 392
. .
. .
Table: Clicks

31. 3. Data Querying
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32. ClickAnalyzer
Redis Stream Redis Hash Spark SQLStructured Stream Processing
1. Data Ingest 2. Data Processing 3. Data Querying
Query Redis using Spark SQL

33. 1. Initialize Spark Context with Redis
2. Create table
3. Run Query
3 Steps to Query Redis using Spark SQL
clicks:image_1001
img image_1001
count 1029
clicks:image_1002
img image_1002
count 392
.
.
.
.
img count
image_1001 1029
image_1002 392
. .
. .
Redis Hash to SQL mapping

34. 1. Initialize
scala> import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
scala> val spark = SparkSession.builder().appName("redis-
test").master("local[*]").config("spark.redis.host","localhost").config("spark.redis.port","6379").getOrCreate()
scala> val sc = spark.sparkContext
scala> import spark.sql
scala> import spark.implicits._
2. Create table
scala> sql("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS clicks(img STRING, count INT) USING org.apache.spark.sql.redis OPTIONS (table
'clicks’)”)
How to Query Redis using Spark SQL

35. 3. Run Query
scala> sql("select * from clicks").show();
+----------+-----+
| img|count|
+----------+-----+
|image_1001| 1029|
|image_1002| 392|
|. | .|
|. | .|
|. | .|
|. | .|
+----------+-----+
How to Query Redis using Spark SQL

36. Recap
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38. ClickAnalyzer
Redis Stream Redis Hash Spark SQLStructured Stream Processing
1. Data Ingest 2. Data Processing 3. Data Querying
Building Blocks of our Solution
Redis Streams as data source; Redis as data sinkSpark-Redis Library is used for:

39. Questions
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roshan@redislabs.com
@roshankumar
Roshan Kumar

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