Apache SparkThe Emerging Platform for Distributed Analytics

July 2014

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What is Apache Spark?• Distributed in-memory analytics engine

• Runs in standalone clusters or Hadoop

• Fully compatible with Hadoop storage APIs

• Runs under YARN

• Top-level Apache project

• Supported in all major Hadoop distros

• Open source and vendor neutral

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SAP Support

Spark Timeline

+ + + + +2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 ++

Project begins Open sourced

Spark Summit 2013

Spark Summit 2013

Apache IncubatorApache Top-Level

Cloudera Support

MapR Support

Horton Support

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News cascade starting late last year.

What problems does Spark solve?

Problem #1: MapReduce I/O sandbags runtime for advanced analytics.

Compute Store

Must persist results after each pass through data

Advanced analytics often requires multiple passes through data

Hadoop Storage

Hadoop Storage

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Spark Vision: Distributed in-memory platform

Compute

Intermediate results stay in memory.

100X performance improvement for iterative algorithms.

Compute Compute ComputeHadoop Storage

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Problem #2: Many “point” solutions for advanced analytics in Hadoop

Machine !LearningQueries

Graph !Analytics

Streaming !Analytics

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Spark Vision: single integrated platform for advanced analytics in Hadoop.

• Simplified administration • Integrated results.

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How important is Spark?

Mike Olson, Cloudera:

“The leading candidate for ‘successor to MapReduce’ today is Apache Spark.”

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M.C. Srivas, MapR:

“We believe Spark on Hadoop is a game changer for any business.”

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Ben Lorica, O’Reilly Media:

“The number of companies that are using Spark in production has exploded over the last year.”

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Apache Spark is the most active project in the Hadoop ecosystem.

Source: Cloudera

Commits, Past 12 Months

22%

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Spark’s Key Capabilities

Spark 1.0 Machine Learning• Linear Regression

• Logistic Regression

• Linear Support Vector Machine

• Regularization

• Decision Trees

• Naive Bayes

• Alternating Least Squares

• K-Means Plus-Plus

• Singular Value Decomposition

• Principal Components Analysis

• Stochastic Gradient Descent

• L-BFGS

Spark project expects to double supported techniques in 1.1 (August 2014).Thomas W. Dinsmore

Spark SQL• Currently most active project

• Supports fast interactive queries

• Hive-compatible

• Works with Hive data

• Runs unmodified queries

• Roadmap to support more formats

• Will absorb Shark project

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Spark Streaming• Supports analysis of data streams in real time

• Unifies streaming and batch data

• Integrates with popular data sources:

• HDFS

• Flume

• Kafka

• Twitter

• Easy to use

• Fault tolerant

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Spark Graph Analytics

• Currently Alpha release

• Unifies graph-parallel and data-parallel computing under single API

• Performance parity with Giraph

• Replaces Spark Bagel (Pregel on Spark)

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Spark PerformanceMachine Learning

• 100x faster than MapReduce

Queries (Shark) !

• Comparable to Impala

• 100x faster than Hive

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Streaming

• 2X throughput of Storm

Graph (GraphX) !

• Comparable to Giraph

• 10X faster than MapReduce

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Spark Distributions

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Connector

Every major Hadoop distribution, plus…

Interface to HANABig Data Appliance

Programming Interfaces

Supported APIs “Alpha” Release

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Spark project expects to release production grade R interface early 2015.

“SparkR”

Spark Users

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Certified on Spark

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Who is Databricks?• Commercial venture, incepted 2013

• Founded by Spark principals

• Services and support business model

• Gatekeepers to Spark

• Just landed $33M in Series B

• Andreeson, Horowitz

• New Enterprise Associates

• Just announced Spark Cloud product

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Thank You