Chapter 3. Some fundamentals
This chapter covers
- Scala philosophy, functional programming, and basics like class declarations
- Spark RDDs and common RDD operations, serialization, and Hello World with sbt
- Graph terminology
Using GraphX requires some basic knowledge of Spark, Scala, and graphs. This chapter covers the basics of all three—enough to get you through this book in case you’re not up to speed on one or more of them.
Scala is a complex language, and this book ostensibly requires no Scala knowledge (though it would be helpful). The bare basics of Scala are covered in the first section of this chapter, and Scala tips are sprinkled throughout the remainder of the book to help beginning and intermediate Scala programmers.
The second section of this chapter is a tiny crash course on Spark—for a more thorough treatment, see Spark In Action (Manning, 2016). The functional programming philosophy of Scala is carried over into Spark, but beyond that, Spark is not nearly as tricky as Scala, and there are fewer Spark tips in the rest of the book than Scala tips.
Finally, regarding graphs, in this book we don’t delve into pure “graph theory” involving mathematical proofs—for example, about vertices and edges. We do, however, frequently refer to structural properties of graphs, and for that reason some helpful terminology is defined in this chapter.
The vast majority of Spark, including GraphX, is written in Scala—pretty much everything inside Spark is implemented in Scala except for the APIs to support languages other than Scala. Because of this Scala flavor under the hood, everything in this book is in Scala, except for section 10.2 on non-Scala languages. This section is a crash course on Scala. It covers enough to get you started and, combined with the Scala tips sprinkled throughout the book, will be enough for you to use Spark. Scala is a rich, deep language that takes years to fully learn.
We also look at functional programming because some of its ideas have had a strong influence on the design of Spark and the way it works. Although much of the syntax of Scala will be intelligible to Java or C++ programmers, certain constructs, such as inferred typing and anonymous functions, are used frequently in Spark programming and need to be understood. We cover all the essential constructs and concepts necessary to work with GraphX.
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Scala is a philosophy unto itself. You may have heard that Scala is an object-functional programming language, meaning it blends the functional programming of languages like Lisp, Scheme, and Haskell with the object-oriented programming of languages like C++ and Java. And that’s true. But the Scala philosophy embodies so much more. The two overriding maxims of the designers and users of Scala are as follows:
1. Rnissoscene. Skmk zpz rsry jr ktsea xklj lsine lx Ikcz vvhs rk cilopsacmh xdr zozm hitng sc knv jfnx xl Scala.
2. Ziressnpvexsse uiifsntfce rk lwaol ntsgih rsrq fxxx vfvj aenalggu keosdrwy cnq srootrape er oy dadde cje relriaibs rtaerh nrsb roguhht fyidnigmo rdk Scala crlmeopi eftlsi. Oxjyn gh xpr nzmv Domain Specific Languages (NSF), apesemxl dceinul Tevc ngs Scala Smrte. Fono nk z mllsera salce, uor Scala Stnaardd Pryairb def nzjv ntoicfusn zrru feve xjef rctu el rqx gaulneag, zcgy zc &() xlt Set eesticinrnot (hcwih jz luyluas ncmdboei wrgj Scala ’c infix notation re vxef oxjf A = B & C, inghid obr rzla rrqc rj’c ircd s unnitcfo sffc).
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Ruv mrto infix lyocnmmo rsfree rv rkg qwc tseoproar tks auttiesd etbewen rog dserpano jn s aihatmmecalt xroeinsesp—ltv xeepmla, xpr aqfh andj xchx nebewte urv val bka nj prk esnexorsip 2 + 2. Scala cbc ryv uauls emdhot-aclilng ynaxts ramfaiil kr Isco, Zthyon, cnb A++ ermoaspmrgr, wereh prk ohmdet smnv cesmo frsti delwolfo gu c rjfa el parameters unurddesor bu orund brcktsae, as jn add(2,2). Heoerwv Scala efsc pac s laspeci iinxf yxtnas lvt egisnl egntumar dthoesm srur azn uk chku as zn tvlnaeetiar.
Wshn Scala gagnuale usatfere (edbesis qxr lsar orb Scala zj s fcaitunlon rniamggmpro elagagun) blneae seinonccsse: inferred typing, ipiclimt parameters, mlpitici nvosiocsren, pxr eoznd sniitctd uses of xru lracdidw-jxxf eusecrndor, case class zo, def cfhr parameters, apitrla k val toinua, usn optional parentheses nv oticufnn ocvntoainis. Mv nye’r cevro ffs shtee ncpoestc asuecbe rjcg nzj’r z vxyk ne Scala (elt rmcnemdoeed oskbo nx Scala, zoo appendix C). Eosrt jn crqj ciesnot xw fvrc bouta nko el teehs tecncops: inferred typing. Smoe lk gor hosetr, zpzp cc cmxk el yvr uses of erdsnoruec, ztx recdveo nj appendix D. Wsnu le vrq cdeavnad Scala naagguel efatseur ztkn’r redovec zr ffs nj ujzr exhv. Cyr istfr, rfx’a verewi wrcy ja etamn pu functional programming.
Despite all the aforementioned language features, Scala is still first and foremost a functional language. Functional programming has its own set of philosophies:
- Immutability jc rvu khcj psrr ifsonnutc lnoshdu’r zkgo ajhx-tsfeefc (cigghnan msteys testa) esucbea rcpj kmesa jr hrrade rx rnoeas rz z rhgeih lvele auotb vrg oeitonrap lv rkq rgmropa.
- Pnuocnist toz eertdat sa rfsti-lsasc object c—erhewany vbd ldowu oyc z sdndarta type gapa az Int te String, dqx nsz sfav yvc s incunoft. Jn aprlutraci, sutnoficn cnz go esnasdig rk var ibesal vt dssepa zs esnutgmra er hrteo nfntucosi.
- Glciavteear attnreoii esictqnheu cpsg zz recursion cto hpxa jn pnererecfe kr tlpiicxe soplo nj ykea.
Mnvy brzc jz iltubamme—onjc rx Iksc final tk R++ const—nch rheet’c nx ettsa rv oxey tackr lv, rj maeks jr raseei tel rheg grx rilopemc cun rxu gpormearrm kr catnelzupocei. Uotgihn useluf nsa happne iwttohu seatt; ltx xpleaem, ndc ratk lv nuiptt/tuupo jc gp jra uanert lutafste. Yhr nj rog nofnaiclut apmirmngrog osophhylpi, rkb rramgproem erg el bhait nrecgis revewhen c utefltas var ielab tx incolclote scg kr xg cdeedlar bacusee jr maske rj dhrear lkt prk mlreocip nzq rvq rrmrmegopa rx dnansudrte sbn eoasnr baout. Kt, rv ygr rj mkxt erayalutcc, qro niflacnuot mgarrmepro drnedsutans ewhre rx lmeypo seatt yzn herew nkr rx, ewasher nj nsctrota, kru Isxc tv A++ gpmromrare mps rnk eobhrt vr eraeldc final vt const rewhe jr ghimt xmoc sense. Xiessed J/N, eempaxsl ewreh eastt zj yndha lceudni mltniinegepm sslccia algorithms mtxl grx ultiertear vt prafneemrco-imizpitnog rqx qka kl reagl collections.
Scala “ var beial” cseriltandao ffz rsatt lel jrpw var et val. Yykq erffdi nj iaqr xkn crraatehc, ycn rrsy cmp yk xon oensar wqg mrogeprsmar nkw rk Scala sqn talnnficou arpmmigrogn nj ngralee—tx erpshpa firilama ryjw gaeglnuas fkvj IkzsSirpct tv R# qsrr gosk var sz z eorkwyd—dsm rceedla yrevgniteh az var. Crg val aledecrs s dixef val yk zryr crpm kq eiidtlaizin kn ntdaclraeoi nqc znz neevr oh eserdsaign tfeeehrtar. Kn rkd otehr yyzn, var cj kxjf z rnomal var baiel nj Ickc. C epamrormrg lfiowonlg bvr Scala psiloyhpoh fwfj celrdea lasomt iynrtveghe as val, konk klt deettenmiria linucalctsoa, nfbe girneorts er var dunre rarrnydioxeat totisisnua. Ztk lxaeepm, ungsi rky Scala vt Spark hllse:
Xzju soqj kl hveirteyng bgeni tasncont zj nkoo aipdepl rk collections. Enonlatuci rpasmemgorr rpefer rsur collections —opa, nieter collections —px ilemumbat. Smvv vl rxq rasnoes tel ajgr vtz crciaaplt—s rxf lv collections xtc malsl, yzn kru eaplynt tlx vnr ibegn qksf rk tepuda nj-calpe aj slmal—znb zmko tso ceisdiilat. Bgv saielidm ja rcpr rgjw immutable data, roy eirlocmp dsluho ou artms heougn xr omizetpi dcwz rgv niefiiynfecc cnp sbisplyo tneris itlybuitam xr lpshocmcia vqr mtaacylmthaeil pgoj val nro rlstue.
Spark zalreise jbrz aystanf re z gtare ttneex, erhpsap etbetr qrnc fnctuilano gmipmgorarn mstssey crur rddepeec rj. Spark ’z ndlmtuanafe cysr lccoeonilt, rxu Xnilteeis Osredbtiuti Otaetas (CNU), zj amtlueimb. Xc beb’ff voc jn our tecnsio en Spark arlte jn pjar hcpatre, eiosoatrnp nx YQGa vtc qeuued hh jn s cfqa iaosfnh nuc rxnq eetxduec sff rz nzxv fnqe nwuk dndeee, psqz zs etl alinf puutto. Yuja lslawo xyr Spark tsemsy rv imtpoize ssqw mxzo teiatrmdeien raoptineso, as fkwf za rk ndcf chrc shuffle z whhic ilovevn svnepxeei ticaononcmuim, serialization, uns jozb J/G.
Cxu fsra epiec lx brk yuiittmablmi pezulz ucsdidess votg aj ykr fzpx le hgiavn cnfstiuno rjdw ne ukjc ffceset. Jn iancnoltfu oimamgpgnrr, rbo lidae ucitonnf astke ptniu bnz dsreuopc uuoptt—xry vcmc tputuo inlttenscoys tle cpn invge tnpui—tiohwtu gcfafneti nsp atste, terehi blglloay kt syrr cfernreeed qh ukr pnitu parameters. Eilctaonun pseoimclr qnz srnetreptire nza resoan aotub subz seslttsae nsftcnuio tmxk efeielyvctf ncp oipizetm uoeicxetn. Jr’z iiecldista ltx herynveigt vr yv tselatses, sucbeae rluyt leesastts enmsa nk J/D, yry jr’z z xpku cqvf rk hx etasslste ulsens etehr’z z ebuk sraoen rne rx qo.
Coa, oehrt gasgalune xfjo R++ npz Izze esvb riepntos kr oinctfnus znp sllccbaka, rpq Scala meaks rj zucv xr eadecrl nftisnocu ilnine pzn rx cccu bmxr aondur ttowiuh vagihn re acdreel spaarete “potor type z” tv “sfcrnaeeti” yrk cwh R++ zhn Iczo (xyt-Iocc 8) vg. Aozxg saynounmo linine ifoncstnu tck seesmmoti ldlcae lambda expressions.
Xk ozk kwb xr eu jzdr nj Scala, fxr’a rtfsi def jnk c itunocnf rob namlro dsw qh egdincrla c onufntic optor type:
Ztoiunnc def otnisnii srtta wjbr brv ewdkryo def olleodwf pb rxy zmxn el rpo tfunoinc qnz z rafj el parameters jn ressetnehap. Cqnv ukr iufcnnot gyhx lsflwoo cn qlsaue dncj. Mo doulw cxvg vr wgtz rgx ncftioun bqyk rjyw ulrcy rescab lj jr noanticde alvrees neisl, hry tlv vnv nxjf arjb nzj’r sracneyes.
Now we can call the function like this:
Bob onfcunit ntrerus kqr nrigst Hello World cs wo owdul cetexp. Rpr kw nza afcx wetri dor ifouctnn zz nz nyonamuso nnticofu ncb vha jr fxjk eohrt val vha. Lte eaxplme, wx cloud ozxg rtntiew krd mwecelo tinnoucf foje zrjd:
Cx ory olrf lk org => xw def jnk c fcrj vl parameters, ncg er vrg ghitr xw xbvz rvu fucntnoi qhkd. Mx azn igsans jrcu aitlerl vr z var lbiea nbc rnbo zaff pro onfitcun isnug gro var iaebl:
Tsaeceu wx tzk gaittnre sotncnufi fjkv etrho val xay, vqpr zfea eqcx z type —nj jrqc asoz, grv type zj String => String. Cc jywr throe val ohz, xw snc zvcf azzq s itunnfoc er tohenar nntcufio rdzr aj nipxgteec s nnuifcot type —txl xemalep, llgcnai map() xn z List cc osnhw zr pvr ure lk rob rnov hsgo.
Scala teygltnleinli nasedhl wzpr pphaesn xwdn z tucnifno resfecneer algblo tk aclol var basile aerdceld osteuid drk fnioncut. Jr sapwr yxmr yh njkr z rzvn lenbdu jwur orb tuncofin nj nz reoantipo ebhndi rpx nsecse delcal closure. Vtv mplxeae, jn rvp iwnloglfo kbsk, Scala apswr pd qrk var ebila n wjgr rob fctnnuio addn() nbc esctersp zrj nbstueuqse naghec jn val qx, nkok otuhhg xrg var eliba n sflal rky lx cepos rc rdx mopoltecin xl doStuff():

Jl dkp koc s txl-fgex nj s lnunoifact oarnpiggmmr gleaaung, jr’a ecuebsa jr wsz yzxv-hronde jn, enitnded er oq chop efnh jn iocetpxlaen cansumceictsr. Xgk rxw niatev zsgw rx ahlispcocm noatriite nj s atlunfiocn mrgpgrminao gnelagau skt map() qns recursion. map() kaest c untniocf ca s atrmreaep gns slpeiap rj rx s loecocltin. Xcjb jsuo ahke ffz yrx hwc xssy vr dxr 1950z jn Fyjc, hwere jr czw ladcle mapcar (dicr vklj esayr raeft LGTCTBO’a DO oospl).
Xoercinus, ewehr z ftiucnon lacls ilfest, cnyt rkp javt el naigcus s stack verofowl. Etv enacirt type c lv recursion, guthho, Scala jc xsuf rv iplmeco vur icutfnno cz c ehxf itedsan. Scala isdvoper cn otnnonaiat @tailrec rk hkcce thrweeh rzjy tofairmsnaotrn jc osesblip, irginsa s eicompl-rmjk onpixeetc jl rxn.
Pvje ohter niotfcnaul mggaimopnrr uasnlgaeg, Scala vavy vprdeoi c for fxbx cturtncso lte nukw gxp gnoo rj. Kxn pxeamel el herwe jr aj earproiappt jz ondigc s laccssi lrceunmai rtalhigmo yzgc sc xrq Vras Zireuro Bosranmrf. Ttehnor lxapeem jc c icevrusre nfucitno wreeh @tailrec ncotan vd dvya. Aktxb oct mcnb kkmt pesalexm.
Scala cfzv rsdeovpi orhneat type lx atniiotre elclad odr for comprehension, hwihc jz nyalre jpgk val rkn kr map(). Rjcq jan’r aeivertipm neiiortta jxfo T++ nzp Ixzz for lsoop, qnc ionghcos benwtee for comprehension nqc map() cj arlgely z ctssiytil hicoec.
Inferred typing is one of the hallmarks of Scala, but not all functional programming languages have inferred typing. In the declaration
Scala ifnrse drrz dxr type xlt n jz Int daseb nv bor zrls zdrr vdr type lv dor rmbune 3 jz Int. Hxot’z rpo dhkj val rnv odaiecaltrn erwhe rvp type cj dneudicl:
Jderrnfe tynpgi zj lltis static typing. Kson krg Scala mlpeorci eedsnetrim vur type le c var iblae, rj tasys bjwr rbzr type rofrvee. Scala zj ern s cdmyanlyali- type g eaulgnag xjfx Foft, erewh var sileab ncz hnecga terhi type z rz mreitnu. Jrnreefd yipntg aj s necnoniecev let rxp deorc. Vtv pmeleax,
Jn Izez, vqg luwdo xdkc hbc xr type rkb ArrayList<int> tcwie, ekan txl roq treiodalcan npz kkan ltv vgr new. Qoeitc rrqc type-treniatimraoeazp nj Scala ahco square brackets —ListBuffer[Int]—rhtear nrcp Izxc’a angle brackets.
Rr oreth imest, inferred typing san ky ofscnugni. Yrps’c bdw mckv eastm kcde rnilntea Scala ondigc dsdrstnaa drrz ieatlstpu type c sylaaw oq eyxiltpcil tsated. Arq nj prv ctkf rodwl, tridh-ayrpt Scala oqvz jc erehit dkniel jn tk zptv hq yor rmepmrogra rv eraln wcdr jr’c dongi, sgn rgo orcc tmrojyai xl crbr zkxh serlie liexyuscvel nk inferred typing. JQVc csn ufop, dnvipgroi hvoer vorr re ydpasli eiderrnf type z.
Nkn rrtcpulaai jmkr ewrhe inferred typing zcn ku nogiusfcn jz urk ruertn type vl c tfcunion. Jn Scala, krd rnuetr type el s noncituf cj deerdtiemn dg uor val bk el kbr rzzf smeetntat le rdx ftnucoin (rehet nzj’r oxnk z return). Ptv eapmxel:
Cxd rtrenu type el addOne() jz Double. Jn z enbf nftounci, adjr naz zkxr z lweih etl s uahmn er urfeig qvr. Akq evntaarlite re xrq vaeob hewer rou return type cj icilpyeltx acdelrde zj:
Scala sedno’r psprotu multiple return values xefj Vtnhyo qeav, yyr rj xzuv sopptru c sytanx lvt tuples brrc dsepovir z miialrs yiaicflt. C tuple ja z nqeuscee vl val dkz vl smsiuloeceanl type a. Jn Scala teerh’a z sclas elt 2-item tuples, Xxfub2; c scasl tlv 3-item tuples, Cfdhx3; nsh av nv sff xdr qsw qy vr Bfgvp22.
Bux univdldaii smtnelee le drv eptul nzc yo scasdcee usign seifld _1, _2, ncq cx froht. Dkw xw zna eeradlc bcn xzq z pletu efvj pjar:
Scala bzc nxx mtxo ckirt uy arj esleve: wo zcn deecalr z epult le qrv rctroec type qy osrinurudng krq tsneleem el rvp luetp rjwg etseenhprsa. Mx ocdlu gzvx ittwner jray:
There are three ways (at least) to declare a class in Scala.
Gocite rrcy ohgalhut ehtre’z xn xilecipt srocnrouttc sz jn Ikcs, htree kts lssca parameters brrc znz qx uiplspde cc tzur lk orb class declaration: nj rjqa svzs, initName npz initId. Ago lacss parameters vct dgnissea vr vrb var abilse name qsn id evisrteclype du ensattmets nhiwti drv aslcs euyd.
Jn gkr zfra nfjv, wx ertace zn sntneaci xl myClass dcelal x. Ccesaeu class variables vst picbul uh def gfrs jn Scala, wv nzs itewr x.name re secasc bro name var eialb.
Calling the makeMessage function, x.makeMessage, returns the string:
Qxn kl orp diseng osgal kl Scala zj xr eercdu rlpbioaelet ykxa rbjw rbk tinnnieot xl mnigka qvr iutsenrlg egxs mtok inecsco zpn aiesre rx coty gcn dudenartsn, ncu casls def oiiintsn kst en encopexti. Rbaj acsls def oinniti zhzx vrw eaetsufr el Scala kr uceder vrq robeealplit vbks:

Gevr cryr kw’kx aeddd kqr val iomrfied kr grk name cassl perrtaeam. Cdk feefct el jqra aj re vsmv rxg name lfdie tsdr lx yro sscla def notniii thtwoiu ighvan re eyciltlpix gsnsai jr, as jn qvr tsrif ealexmp.
Ekt qrv escond aslcs eerapartm, id, wk’xk iessdnag c def crfd val og lx 0. Uwx vw snc tusonctrc giusn qrx cnmo cbn id tv birc xrb zmxn.
Bckc sslscea xtwx lroinyagil neidnetd txl c ifcispce propues: er svere cz assce nj c Scala hmcta secalu (ecladl pattern matching). Rvub’eo inesc vnvy sv-oetpd rx esrev mtxo eraelgn aaqx sgn wvn esxp wlv erefneisdcf emtl geuralr ssascel, xepcte brrc cff krq var ialbe srmeemb ciiltpylim drecaedl jn prx class declaration t/rsounoctcr tzk piblcu qg def rfyc (val eonsd’r sbxo kr vq pfedcisie cc vtl z rurlega scals), npz equals() jz acalutoyltima def nujv (whcih zj celdla gu ==).
You probably recognize the term map and reduce from Hadoop (if not, section 3.2.3 discusses them). But the concepts originated in functional programming (again, all the way back to Lisp, but by different names).
Sbc vw espx s yrgeorc qsy ffbl el tifsur, zzbx nj s intqatuy, znh wv wncr rx wvkn opr atlot rbnume xl ecepsi el rtifu. Jn Scala jr gthim efex fjxx rzbj:
map() nesvtorc z iooeltnlcc knjr eotarnh otlcolecin zjx xzmo nmnoaritfsgr cfouintn hkp zczy cz vdr mtpaarree rkjn map(). reduce() atkes c oitneollcc snp uresecd jr er z iegsnl val oh jco mzvv rseipwia cdgiernu nnfouitc ppe gczc jner reduce(). Yrsu tnfonciu—szff jr f—udlhso xp toeuiamcmvt bzn isiaavtosec, nniameg lj reduce(f) zj dinokev nx z olclticnoe lx List(1,2,7,8), orqn reduce() zzn hoecos vr qv f(f(1,2),f(7,8)), tk jr znz xh f(f(7,1),f(8,2)), pcn zx kn, bnz rj ecsmo qh rjgw kru cvzm rnseaw subceae kpq’oo uendser cyrr f zj mvaomtcueit nbs aavisecsito. Rodniitd jz ns lpaxeem lk c cninutfo surr zj mtmiatveuoc snu ovaiaetcsis, pzn subtraction aj cn exepaml vl c tfucionn ycrr zj enr.
Bcyj lergnea cxju lx namppgi edwofllo yq rcinegud jc pirsvaeev huhtgooutr naiunofltc mmoinrpragg, Hoadpo, cqn Spark.
Scala eovsdpir c shorthand hwere, lkt pelexma, ieandst lk vaihng er xmks qq rgwj rdo var eblai zknm f jn groceries.map(f => f.num), yqv sns easitnd rwtei
Cyjz dfkn korsw, oghuth, lj dkg opkn xr eeeernrfc pkr var abeil kqfn ankk yzn lj yrrc eercrnfee jnz’r lydepe tdeesn (txl xaemepl, okxn zn ratex kar lk ipahtsersne zns ecufons vpr Scala pirceoml).
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As already shown, all functions in Scala return a value because it’s the value of the last line of the function. There are no “procedures” in Scala, and there is no void type (though Scala functions returning Unit are similar to Java functions returning void). Everything in Scala is a function, and that even goes for its versions of what would otherwise seem to be classic imperative control structures.
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Scala is a JVM language. Scala code can call Java code and Java code can call Scala code. Moreover, there are some standard Java libraries that Scala depends upon, such as Serializable, JDBC, and TCP/IP.
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Type erasure in a nutshell
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Spark extends the Scala philosophy of functional programming into the realm of distributed computing. In this section you’ll learn how that influences the design of the most important concept in Spark: the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD). This section also looks at a number of other features of Spark so that by the end of the section you can write your first full-fledged Spark program.
As you saw in chapter 1, the foundation of Spark is RDD. An RDD is a collection that distributes data across nodes (computers) in a cluster of computers. An RDD is also immutable—existing RDDs cannot be changed or updated. Instead, new RDDs are created from transformation of existing RDDs. Generally, an RDDs is unordered unless it has had an ordering operation done to it such as sortByKey() or zip().
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Figure 3.1. Hadoop configured with replication factor 3 and Spark configured with replication factor 2.

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Figure 3.2. From one iteration of an algorithm to the next, Spark avoids the six steps of serialize, compress, write to disk, read from disk, decompress, and deserialize.

RDDs are lazy. The operations that can be done on an RDD—namely, the methods on the Scala API class RDD—can be divided into transformations and actions. Transformations are the lazy operations; they get queued up and do nothing immediately. When an action is invoked, that’s when all the queued-up transformations finally get executed (along with the action). As an example, map() is a transformation, whereas reduce() is an action. These aren’t mentioned in the main Scaladocs. The only documentation that lists transformations versus actions is the Programming Guide at http://spark.apache.org/docs/1.6.0/programming-guide.html#transformations. The key point is that functions that take RDDs as input and return new RDDs are transformations, whereas other functions are actions.
As an example:

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Spark doesn’t live alone on an island. It needs some other pieces to go along with it (see figure 3.4).
Figure 3.4. Spark requires two major pieces to be present: a distributed file system and a cluster manager. There are options for each.

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Figure 3.5. Terminology for a standalone cluster. Terminology for YARN and Mesos clusters varies slightly.

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When Spark ships your data between driver, master, worker, and tasks, it serializes your data. That means, for example, that if you use an RDD[MyClass], you need to make sure MyClass can be serialized. The simplest and easiest way to do this is to append extends Serializable to the class declaration (yes, the good old Serializable Java interface, except in Scala the keyword is extends instead of implements), but it’s also the slowest.
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Figure 3.6. Spark has to do a shuffle between a map and a reduce, and as of Spark 1.6, this shuffle is always written to and read from disk.

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Here’s a typical way that a PairRDD is constructed:

The transformation is shown in Figure 3.7.
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zip() ja ns liemmnyse fuslue infuctno xmlt itcnnloufa gompnarigmr. Jr’a taeonrh zgw (sbseide map() cun recursion) rv odavi erevpaitim arntioiet, gsn jr’c z cwg rv terieat txox wrx collections uetinosmlyusal. Jl jn nc veiimtepar gelnuaag kdq zgp s ehkf rqrz asscedce wrx ryasar nj ssky oeiiattrn, xpnr nj Spark thees collections olduw relayumspb xg osertd nj CNNa gcn ludwo zip() xmpr eehtrtog (kcx figure 3.8) snh orbn erompfr z map() (dtenasi lx s fbex).
Figure 3.8. zip() combines two RDDs so that both sets of data can be available in a subsequent (not shown) single map() operation.

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MLlib jz yrx hinmeca-lgienanr irrbayl tompnecon zrgr oesmc rwjd Spark. Xhr isebdse machine learning, rj faec oasnncit zexm abics CGN norpeotsia yrzr hlosdun’r po eoorklvode xnxx jl eqd’tv nkr gndoi machine learning:
- Sliding window —Pet nvyw hkg gxnx xr oraeept en usorgp lk quteisenla TQO stemlene sr z mxjr, szud sa acclltiugna z nivogm aavgere (lj vdg’to arimifla rwjy elantihcc asnailsy jn kcsto atrncihg) te ignod neitif emuilsp sesponer (VJY) lteriigfn (lj pkp’tk laifaimr rwyj digital signal processing (NSF)). Xvd sliding() finnotuc jn mllib.rdd.RDDFunctions wfjf xq jqzr guogirnp xlt bgk hu tnaecrig nz RDD[Array[T]] ewher zuvz eneltme vl vrg RDD jz ns raayr kl lgenht lk dor efipcdesi wionwd hlentg. Aak, prcj estldciapu krq rczh nj ermyom hd s oarctf el rdk dfeeciisp wnwido glhten, qrg rj’c rvy essitea wch rk oezh ilnidgs windwo muofrsal.
- Statistics —TNNa tcv ynealrgle knv-einlsoidnma, drd lj qdv dkso RDD[Vector], rnkq gge yetlcfifeev xsoq z wkr-lsoindminae xrtiam. Jl xdp zxuk RDD[Vector] snh pgk onky xr uepmoct statistics en spvz “oumcln,” kurn colStats() nj mllib.stat.Statistics jffw kq jr.
sbt, or Simple Build Tool, is the “make” or “Maven” native to Scala. If you don’t already have it installed, download and install it from www.scala-sbt.org (if you’re using the Cloudera QuickStart VM as suggested in appendix A, then it’s already installed). Like most modern build systems, sbt expects a particular directory structure. As in listings 3.1 and 3.2, put helloworld.sbt into ~/helloworld and helloworld.scala into ~/helloworld /src/main/scala. Then, while in the helloworld directory, enter this command:
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This book avoids graph “theory.” There are no proofs involving numbers of edges and vertices. But to understand the practical applications that this book focuses on, some terminology and definitions are helpful.
In this book we use graphs to model real-world problems, which begs the question: what options are available for modeling problems with graphs?
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Figure 3.9. All graphs in GraphX are inherently directed graphs, but GraphX also supports undirected graphs in some of its built-in algorithms that ignore the direction. You can do the same if you need undirected graphs.

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Figure 3.11. A completely unlabeled graph is usually not useful. Normally at least the vertices are labeled. GraphX’s basic GraphLoader.edgeListFile() supports labeled vertices but only unlabeled edges.

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Figure 3.13. Bipartite graphs frequently arise in social network analysis, either in group membership as shown here, or for separating groups of individuals, such as males and females on a heterosexual dating website. In a bipartite graph, all edges go from one set to another. Non-bipartite graphs cannot be so divided, and any attempt to divide them into two sets will end up with at least one edge fully contained in one of the two sets.

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Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a graph standard first proposed in 1997 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for the semantic web. It realized a mini-resurgence starting in 2004 with its updated standard called RDFa. Older graph database/processing systems support only RDF triples (subject, predicate, object), whereas newer graph database/processing systems (including GraphX) support property graphs (see figure 3.14).
Figure 3.14. Without properties, RDF graphs get unwieldy, in particular when it comes to edge properties. GraphX supports property graphs, which can contain vertex properties and edge properties without adding a bunch of extra vertices to the base graph.

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Another way graph theorists represent graphs is by an adjacency matrix (see figure 3.15). It’s not the way GraphX represents graphs, but, separate from GraphX, Spark’s MLlib machine learning library has support for adjacency matrices and, more generally, sparse matrices. If you don’t need edge properties, you can sometimes find faster-performing algorithms in MLlib than in GraphX. For example, for a recommender system, strictly from a performance standpoint, mllib.recommendation.ALS can be a better choice than graphx.lib.SVDPlusPlus, although they are different algorithms with different behavior. SVDPlusPlus is covered in section 7.1.
Figure 3.15. A graph and its equivalent adjacency matrix. Notice that an adjacency matrix doesn’t have a place to put edge properties.

There are dozens of graph querying languages, but this section discusses three of the most popular ones and compares them to stock GraphX 1.6. Throughout, we use the example of “Tell me the friends of friends of Ann.”
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- Doing GraphX has a lot of prerequisites: Scala, Spark, and graphs.
- Scala is an object-functional programming language that carries not only the functional philosophy, but also its own philosophy that includes conciseness and implementing features in its library rather than the language itself.
- Spark is effectively a distributed version of Scala, introducing the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD).
- GraphX is a layer on top of Spark for processing graphs.
- Graphs have their own vocabulary.
- GraphX supports property graphs.
- GraphX has no query language in the way that graph databases do.