Apache Spark in Depth: Core Concepts, Architecture & Internals

This document provides an overview of Apache Spark, including how it compares to Hadoop, the Spark ecosystem, Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), transformations and actions on RDDs, the directed acyclic graph (DAG) scheduler, Spark Streaming, and the DataFrames API. Key points covered include Spark's faster performance versus Hadoop through its use of memory instead of disk, the RDD abstraction for distributed collections, common RDD operations, and Spark's capabilities for real-time streaming data processing and SQL queries on structured data.

The document discusses optimizations made to Spark SQL performance when working with Parquet files at ByteDance. It describes how Spark originally reads Parquet files and identifies two main areas for optimization: Parquet filter pushdown and the Parquet reader. For filter pushdown, sorting columns improved statistics and reduced data reads by 30%. For the reader, splitting it to first filter then read other columns prevented loading unnecessary data. These changes improved Spark SQL performance at ByteDance without changing jobs.

Apache Spark™ is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. Spark is written in Scala and runs on top of JVM, but Python is one of the officially supported languages. But how does it actually work? How can Python communicate with Java / Scala? In this talk, we’ll dive into the PySpark internals and try to understand how to write and test high-performance PySpark applications.

This document compares MapReduce and Spark frameworks. It discusses their histories and basic functionalities. MapReduce uses input, map, shuffle, and reduce stages, while Spark uses RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets) and transformations and actions. Spark is easier to program than MapReduce due to its interactive mode, but MapReduce has more supporting tools. Performance benchmarks show Spark is faster than MapReduce for sorting. The hardware and developer costs of Spark are also lower than MapReduce.

we will see an overview of Spark in Big Data. We will start with an introduction to Apache Spark Programming. Then we will move to know the Spark History. Moreover, we will learn why Spark is needed. Afterward, will cover all fundamental of Spark components. Furthermore, we will learn about Spark’s core abstraction and Spark RDD. For more detailed insights, we will also cover spark features, Spark limitations, and Spark Use cases.

Spark SQL is a highly scalable and efficient relational processing engine with ease-to-use APIs and mid-query fault tolerance. It is a core module of Apache Spark. Spark SQL can process, integrate and analyze the data from diverse data sources (e.g., Hive, Cassandra, Kafka and Oracle) and file formats (e.g., Parquet, ORC, CSV, and JSON). This talk will dive into the technical details of SparkSQL spanning the entire lifecycle of a query execution. The audience will get a deeper understanding of Spark SQL and understand how to tune Spark SQL performance.

This document provides an overview of a talk on Apache Spark. It introduces the speaker and their background. It acknowledges inspiration from a previous Spark training. It then outlines the structure of the talk, which will include: a brief history of big data; a tour of Spark including its advantages over MapReduce; and explanations of Spark concepts like RDDs, transformations, and actions. The document serves to introduce the topics that will be covered in the talk.

The document discusses Apache Spark, an open source cluster computing framework for real-time data processing. It notes that Spark is up to 100 times faster than Hadoop for in-memory processing and 10 times faster on disk. The main feature of Spark is its in-memory cluster computing capability, which increases processing speeds. Spark runs on a driver-executor model and uses resilient distributed datasets and directed acyclic graphs to process data in parallel across a cluster.

We will give a detailed introduction to Apache Spark and why and how Spark can change the analytics world. Apache Spark's memory abstraction is RDD (Resilient Distributed DataSet). One of the key reason why Apache Spark is so different is because of the introduction of RDD. You cannot do anything in Apache Spark without knowing about RDDs. We will give a high level introduction to RDD and in the second half we will have a deep dive into RDDs.

Catalyst is becoming one of the most important components of Apache Spark, as it underpins all the major new APIs in Spark 2.0 and later versions, from DataFrames and Datasets to Streaming. At its core, Catalyst is a general library for manipulating trees. In this talk, Yin explores a modular compiler frontend for Spark based on this library that includes a query analyzer, optimizer, and an execution planner. Yin offers a deep dive into Spark SQL’s Catalyst optimizer, introducing the core concepts of Catalyst and demonstrating how developers can extend it. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how Spark analyzes, optimizes, and plans a user’s query.

This is the presentation I made on JavaDay Kiev 2015 regarding the architecture of Apache Spark. It covers the memory model, the shuffle implementations, data frames and some other high-level staff and can be used as an introduction to Apache Spark

This session covers how to work with PySpark interface to develop Spark applications. From loading, ingesting, and applying transformation on the data. The session covers how to work with different data sources of data, apply transformation, python best practices in developing Spark Apps. The demo covers integrating Apache Spark apps, In memory processing capabilities, working with notebooks, and integrating analytics tools into Spark Applications.

This document discusses Spark shuffle, which is an expensive operation that involves data partitioning, serialization/deserialization, compression, and disk I/O. It provides an overview of how shuffle works in Spark and the history of optimizations like sort-based shuffle and an external shuffle service. Key concepts discussed include shuffle writers, readers, and the pluggable block transfer service that handles data transfer. The document also covers shuffle-related configuration options and potential future work.

The document summarizes Spark SQL, which is a Spark module for structured data processing. It introduces key concepts like RDDs, DataFrames, and interacting with data sources. The architecture of Spark SQL is explained, including how it works with different languages and data sources through its schema RDD abstraction. Features of Spark SQL are covered such as its integration with Spark programs, unified data access, compatibility with Hive, and standard connectivity.

Join operations in Apache Spark is often the biggest source of performance problems and even full-blown exceptions in Spark. After this talk, you will understand the two most basic methods Spark employs for joining DataFrames – to the level of detail of how Spark distributes the data within the cluster. You’ll also find out how to work out common errors and even handle the trickiest corner cases we’ve encountered! After this talk, you should be able to write performance joins in Spark SQL that scale and are zippy fast! This session will cover different ways of joining tables in Apache Spark. Speaker: Vida Ha This talk was originally presented at Spark Summit East 2017.

This document provides an overview of Apache Spark, including its goal of providing a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It discusses Spark's programming model, components like RDDs and DAGs, and how to initialize and deploy Spark on a cluster. Key aspects covered include RDDs as the fundamental data structure in Spark, transformations and actions, and storage levels for caching data in memory or disk.

The slides explain how shuffle works in Spark and help people understand more details about Spark internal. It shows how the major classes are implemented, including: ShuffleManager (SortShuffleManager), ShuffleWriter (SortShuffleWriter, BypassMergeSortShuffleWriter, UnsafeShuffleWriter), ShuffleReader (BlockStoreShuffleReader).

Apache Spark is a next-generation processing engine optimized for speed, ease of use, and advanced analytics well beyond batch. The Spark framework supports streaming data and complex, iterative algorithms, enabling applications to run 100x faster than traditional MapReduce programs. With Spark, developers can write sophisticated parallel applications for faster business decisions and better user outcomes, applied to a wide variety of architectures and industries. Learn What Apache Spark is and how it compares to Hadoop MapReduce, How to filter, map, reduce, and save Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), Who is best suited to attend the course and what prior knowledge you should have, and the benefits of building Spark applications as part of an enterprise data hub.