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Big Data Analytics with R

You're reading from   Big Data Analytics with R Leverage R Programming to uncover hidden patterns in your Big Data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466457
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Spark with R on a multi-node HDInsight cluster


Although Spark can be deployed in single-node, standalone mode, its powerful capabilities are best fit for multi-node applications. With this in mind, we will dedicate most of this chapter to practical Big Data crunching with Spark and R on a Microsoft Azure HDInsight cluster. As you should already be familiar with the deployment process of HDInsight clusters, our Spark workflows will contain one additional twist—€”the Spark framework will process the data straight from the Hive database, which will be populated with tables from HDFS. The introduction of Hive is a useful extension of the concepts covered in Chapter 5, R with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs) and Chapter 6, R with Non-Relational (NoSQL) Databases, where we discussed the connectivity of R with relational and non-relational databases. But before we can use it, we should firstly launch a new HDInsight cluster with Spark and RStudio.

Launching HDInsight with Spark and...

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