Presentation from the java2days 2019 conference

1. Building highly scalable data
pipelines with Apache Spark
Martin Toshev

2. Who am I
Software consultant (CoffeeCupConsulting)
BG JUG board member (http://jug.bg)
(BG JUG is a 2018 Oracle Duke’s
choice award winner)

3. Agenda
• Apache Spark from an eagle’s eye
• Datasets and transformations
• Datasources
• Machine learning capabilities
• Clustering

4. Apache Spark from an Eagle’s eye

5. Highlights
• A framework for large-scale distributed data processing
• Originally in Scala but extended with Java, Python and R
• One of the most contributed
open source/Apache/GitHub projects with over 1400
contributors

6. Spark vs MapReduce
• Spark has been developed in order to address the
shortcomings of the MapReduce programming model
• In particular MapReduce is unsuitable for:
– real-time processing (suitable for batch processing of present data)
– operations not limited to the key-value format of data
– large data on a network
– online transaction processing
– graph processing
– sequential program execution

7. Spark vs Hadoop
• Spark is faster as it depends more on RAM usage and
tries to minimize disk IO (on the storage system)
• Spark however can still use Hadoop:
– as a storage engine (HDFS)
– as a compute engine (MapReduce or Hadoop YARN)
• Spark has pluggable storage and compute engine
architecture

8. Spark components
Spark Framework
Spark Core
Spark
Streaming
MLib GraphXSpark SQL

9. Spark architecture
SparkContext
(driver)
Cluster
manager
Worker
node
Worker
node
Worker
node
Spark application
(JAR)
Input data
sources
Output data
sources

10. Datasets and transformations

11. Spark datasets
• The building block of Spark are RDDs (Resilient
Distributed Datasets)
• They are immutable collections of objects spread across
a Spark cluster and stored in RAM or on disk
• Created by means of distributed transformations
• Rebuilt on failure of a Spark node

12. Spark datasets
• The DataFrame API is a superset of RDDs introduced in
Spark 2.0
• The Dataset API provides a way to work with a
combination of RDDs and DataFrames
• The DataFrame API is preferred compared to RDDs due to
improved performance and more advanced operations

13. Spark datasets
List<Item> items = …;
SparkConf configuration = new
SparkConf().setAppName(“ItemsManager").setMaster("local");
JavaSparkContext context =
new JavaSparkContext(configuration);
JavaRDD<Item> itemsRDD = context.parallelize(items);

14. Spark transformations
map itemsRDD.map(i -> { i.setName(“phone”);
return i;});
filter itemsRDD.filter(i ->
i.getName().contains(“phone”))
flatMap itemsRDD.flatMap(i ->
Arrays.asList(i, i).iterator());
union itemsRDD.union(newItemsRDD);
intersection itemsRDD.intersection(newItemsRDD);
distinct itemsRDD.distinct()
cartesian itemsRDD.cartesian(otherDatasetRDD)

15. Spark transformations
groupBy pairItemsRDD = itemsRDD.mapToPair(i ->
new Tuple2(i.getType(), i));
modifiedPairItemsRDD =
pairItemsRDD.groupByKey();
reduceByKey pairItemsRDD = itemsRDD.mapToPair(o ->
new Tuple2(o.getType(), o));
modifiedPairItemsRDD =
pairItemsRDD.reduceByKey((o1, o2) ->
new Item(o1.getType(),
o1.getCount() + o2.getCount(),
o1.getUnitPrice())
);
• Other transformations include aggregateByKey,
sortByKey, join, cogroup …

16. Spark datasets
• Some transformations such as mapPartitions and
mapPartitionsWithIndex work directly on the dataset
partitions
• The number of partitions of an RDD can be modified
using the coalesce and repartition transformations

17. Spark actions
• Spark actions are the terminal operations that produce
results from the transformations
• Actions are a way to communicate back from the
execution engine to the Spark driver instance

18. Spark actions
collect itemsRDD.collect()
reduce itemsRDD.map(i ->
i.getUnitPrice() * i.getCount()).
reduce((x, y) -> x + y);
count itemsRDD.count()
first itemsRDD.first()
take itemsRDD.take(4)
takeOrdered itemsRDD.takeOrdered(4, comparator)
foreach itemsRDD.foreach(System.out::println)
saveAsTextFile itemsRDD.saveAsTextFile(path)
saveAsObjectFile itemsRDD.saveAsObjectFile(path)

19. DataFrames/DataSets
• A dataframe can be created using an instance of the
org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession class
• The DataFrame/DataSet APIs provide more advanced
operations and the capability to run SQL queries on the
data
itemsDS.createOrReplaceTempView(“items");
session.sql("SELECT * FROM items");

20. DataFrames/DataSets
• An existing RDD can be converted to a Spark dataframe:
• An RDD can be retrieved from a dataframe as well:
SparkSession session =
SparkSession.builder().appName("app").getOrCreate();
Dataset<Row> itemsDS =
session.createDataFrame(itemsRDD, Item.class);
itemsDS.rdd()

21. Datasources

22. Spark data sources
• Spark can receive data from a variety of data sources in a
variety of ways (batching, real-time streaming)
• These datasources might be:
– files: Spark supports reading data from a variety of formats (JSON, CSV, Avro,
etc.)
– relational databases: using JDBC/ODBC driver Spark can extract data from an
RDBMS
– TCP sockets, messaging systems: using streaming capabilities of Spark data
can be read from messaging systems and raw TCP sockets

23. Spark data sources
• Spark provides support for operations on batch data or
real time data
• For real time data Spark provides two main APIs:
– Spark streaming is an older API working on RDDs
– Spark structured streaming is a newer API working on DataFrames/DataSets

24. Spark data sources
• Spark provides capabilities to plug-in additional data
sources not supported by Spark
• For streaming sources you can define your own custom
receivers

25. File data source
• Spark support a variety of formats for reading from files
• You can also implement your own file datasource format
• The default format for reading files is parquet
session.read().load("... some parquet file ...")

26. File data source
• The format method can be used to specify the data
source:
• For some formats you can use a shorthand:
session.read().format("json").load("...file path ...")
session.read().format("csv").load("...file path ...")
context.read().json("...json file"...)

27. File data source
• In a similar way datasets can be writen to a particular file
format:
• datasets can be saved to an object file (serialized Java
objects):
• datasets can be saved to a text file:
itemDF.write().format("csv").save("... file path ...")
itemDS.saveAsObjectFile("... path ...")
itemDS.saveAsTextFile("... path ...")

28. MySQL data source
• Spark supports retrieval of data through JDBC/ODBC
• Database driver must be supplied to the Spark classpath
(specified with the --driver-class-path) option
• For MySQL that is the ConnectorJ driver

29. MySQL data source
context.read()
.format("jdbc")
.option("url",
"jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/spark")
.option("dbtable", "customer_items")
.option("user", "admin")
.option("password", "admin")
.load()

30. MySQL data source
• You can use a variery of options when reading data from an
RDBMS using the jdbc format:
– query: a subquery that provides the possibility to limit retrieved data
– queryTimeout: specify the timeout for the JDBC query executed
against the RDBMS
• You can also save datasets to a table:
itemsDF.write().mode(org.apache.spark.sql.SaveMode.Append).
jdbc("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/spark", "datasets_table",
prop);

31. Spark streaming
• Data is divided into batches called Dstreams
(decentralized streams)
• Typical use case is the integration of Spark with
messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ and
ActiveMQ etc.
• Fault tolerance can be enabled in Spark Streaming
whereby data is stored in HDFS

32. Spark streaming
• To define a Spark stream you need to create a
JavaStreamingContext instance
SparkConf conf = new
SparkConf().setMaster("local[4]").setAppName("CustomerItems");
JavaStreamingContext jssc = new JavaStreamingContext(conf,
Durations.seconds(1));

33. Spark streaming
• Then a receiver can be created for the data:
– from sockets:
– from data directory:
– from RDD streams (for testing purposes):
jssc.socketTextStream("localhost", 7777);
jssc.textFileStream("... some data directory ...");
jssc.queueStream(... RDDs queue ... )

34. Spark streaming
• Then the data pipeline can be built using transformations
and actions on the streams
• Finally retrieval of data must be triggered from the
streaming context:
jssc.start();
jssc.awaitTermination();

35. Spark streaming
• Window streams can be created over stream data based
on two criteria:
– length of the window
– sliding interval for the windows
• Streaming datasets can also be joined with other
streaming or batch datasets

36. Spark structured streaming
• Newer streaming API working on DataSets/DataFrames:
• A schema can be specified on the streaming data using
the .schema(<schema>) method on the read stream
SparkSession context = SparkSession
.builder()
.appName("CustomerItems")
.getOrCreate();
Dataset<Row> lines = spark
.readStream()
.format("socket")
.option("host", "localhost")
.option("port", 7777)
.load();

37. Spark structured streaming
• Write sinks can also be used to write out streaming datasets:
• The following write sinks are provided by Spark:
- file
- Kafka
- foreach
- console (for testing purpose)
- memory (for testing purpose)
StreamingQuery query =
wordCounts.writeStream()
.outputMode("complete")
.format("console")
.start();
query.awaitTermination();

38. Kafka data source
• Kafka integration is provided both through the Spark
streaming and Spark structured streaming frameworks
• A Kafka source can also be created for batch queries:
• Batch query results or a Kafka sink can be created with
the write()/writeStream() methods
Dataset<Row> df = context
.read()
.format("kafka")
.option("kafka.bootstrap.servers","kafkaHost:kafkaPort,...")
.option("subscribe", "customer_items")
.load();

39. Kafka data source
• For Spark streaming the application needs a dependency
to the spark-streaming-kafka library:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-streaming-kafka-0-10_2.10</artifactId>
<version>2.2.3</version>
</dependency>

40. Kafka data source
Map<String, Object> kafkaParams = new HashMap<>();
kafkaParams.put("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092,…");
kafkaParams.put("key.deserializer", StringDeserializer.class);
kafkaParams.put("value.deserializer", StringDeserializer.class);
kafkaParams.put("group.id", "stream_group_id");
kafkaParams.put("auto.offset.reset", "latest");
kafkaParams.put("enable.auto.commit", false);
Collection<String> topics = Arrays.asList(... kafka topics list ...);
JavaInputDStream<ConsumerRecord<String, String>> stream =
KafkaUtils.createDirectStream(
streamingContext,
LocationStrategies.PreferConsistent(),
ConsumerStrategies.<String, String>Subscribe(topics, kafkaParams)
);

41. Kafka data source
• For Spark structured streaming the application needs a
dependency on the spark-sql-kafka library:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-sql-kafka-0-10_2.12</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>

42. Kafka data source
Dataset<Row> df = context
.readStream()
.format("kafka")
.option("kafka.bootstrap.servers", "kafkaHost:kafkaPort,...")
.option("subscribe", "customer_items")
.load();

43. DEMO

44. Machine learning capabilities

45. Overview
• Spark MLib is a machine learning library supporting
Spark’s datasets
• The following Maven dependency must be used:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-mllib_2.12</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

46. Overview
• MLib provides the following:
– machine learning algorithms
– featurization utilities
– machine learning pipelines
– persistence for the algorithms, models and pipelines
– various utilities for linear algebra, statistics and data handling
• MLib uses DataFrames as the primary dataset format
• MLib utilities over RDDs are in maintenance mode

47. Machine learning algorithms
• Spark Mlib provides implementation for the following
categories of algorithms:
– Classification
– Regression
– Clustering
– Collaborative filtering

48. Pipelines
• Provide a mechanism for creating a machine learning
workflow
• Allow for combination of different machine learning
algorithms
• Inspired by Python’s scikit-learn project

49. Pipelines
Tokenizer tokenizer = new Tokenizer()
.setInputCol("text")
.setOutputCol("words");
HashingTF hashingTF = new HashingTF()
.setNumFeatures(1000)
.setInputCol(tokenizer.getOutputCol())
.setOutputCol("features");
LogisticRegression lr = new LogisticRegression()
.setMaxIter(10)
.setRegParam(0.001);
Pipeline pipeline = new Pipeline()
.setStages(new PipelineStage[] {tokenizer, hashingTF, lr});

50. Clustering

51. Cluster managers
• Spark supports the following cluster managers:
– Standalone scheduler (default)
– YARN
– Mesos
• Support for Kubernetes cluster manager is also
undergoing (experimental at present)

52. Standalone cluster
• Spark provides several utilities to manage a standalone
cluster:
– start-master.sh: starts a Spark master instance (that runs the cluster
manager)
– start-slave.sh: starts a Spark worker node connecting to a specified
Spark master
• Standalone cluster topology is listed in the web UI of the
master node

53. Standalone cluster
• Applications can be deployed to the cluster using the
spark-submit utility
• Standalone cluster has 'client' and 'cluster' mode of
operation (the Spark driver runs as a separate instance or
as part of the Spark cluster)
• Specified with the --deploy-mode parameter of the spark-
submit utility

54. Standalone cluster
• Additional scripts provide the possiblity to stop cluster
nodes (master and slave) and also to start multiple nodes
at once on a single machine where the Spark master
resides
• High availability can be established also at the level of the
Spark master node by registering multiple master Spark
nodes against a Zookeeper instance

55. Mesos cluster
• A Mesos master node can be used as the cluster manager
instead of Spark master node in the standalone mode
• The Spark worker nodes running as Spark Mesos executors
must be supplied with the Spark package
• The Spark package is specified with the spark.executor.uri
parameter of the Spark configuration instance or via the
SPARK_EXECUTOR_URI environment variable

56. Mesos cluster
• The Spark driver can also be run in the Mesos cluster
• A mesos cluster dispatcher must be started to facilitate the
cluster mode of operation
start-mesos-dispatcher.sh

57. Mesos cluster
• Spark executors run as Mesos tasks configured according
to the following parameters:
– spark.executor.memory
– spark.executor.cores
– spark.cores.max/spark.executor.cores
• Spark tasks within executors can also be run as separate
Mesos tasks but that mode of operation is deprecated in
Spark

58. Yarn cluster
• Spark can also run a Yarn master instance as a cluster manager
• Spark also supports two deploy modes for Yarn: 'client' and
'cluster'

59. Kubernetes cluster
• Support for using a Kubernetes cluster manager is
experimental at present
• The Spark topology aligns with Kubernetes as follows:
– Spark driver is created as a Kubernetes pod
– The Spark driver creates Spark executors also in Kubernetes pods
– When the application completes executors pods are brought down
• The spark-submit utility can be used to deploy Spark
applications to a Kubernetes cluster

60. Application dependencies
• Production Spark applications typically use some third-
party libraries
• These may be supplied to Spark either:
– Using the --jars parameter to supply JAR files using spark-submit
– Using the --packages parameter to supply Maven dependencies using spark-submit
– Using the --repositories parameter to supply Maven repositories

61. Summary
• Apache Spark is one of the most feature-rich and
developed big data processing frameworks
• Provides a mechanism to distribute load over a large
number of nodes using different cluster managers
• Apart from the variety of operations supported on the
datasets Spark provides a rich machine learning library to
facilitate the data processing capabilities of Spark