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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

You're reading from   Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python Real-world examples to help you analyze large datasets with Apache Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287945
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Spark 2. Spark Basics and Spark Examples FREE CHAPTER 3. Advanced Examples of Spark Programs 4. Running Spark on a Cluster 5. SparkSQL, DataFrames, and DataSets 6. Other Spark Technologies and Libraries 7. Where to Go From Here? – Learning More About Spark and Data Science

Spark Streaming and GraphX


The last two things I want to cover in this chapter are Spark Streaming and GraphX, which are two technologies built on top of Spark. Spark Streaming handles continually incoming real-time data, say from a series of web logs from web servers that are running all the time. GraphX offers some tools for network analysis, kind of like the social network analysis that we were doing back when we were looking at superheroes and their relationships to each other. I'm going to cover Spark Streaming and GraphX at kind of a hand-wavey high level, because they're currently incomplete. Neither one really has good support for Python yet, right now they only work in Scala and they're in the process of being ported to Java and Python. However, by the time you read this book they might very well be available. So, all we can do is talk about them at this point, but I think you'll get the idea. So, follow along and let's see what's there.

What is Spark Streaming?

Spark Streaming is...

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