Spark Modes of Operation and Deployment

Apache Spark Mode of operations or Deployment refers how Spark will run. Spark can run either in Local Mode or Cluster Mode. Local mode is used to test your application and cluster mode for production deployment. In this article, we will check the Spark Mode of operation and deployment. Spark Mode of Operation Apache Spark by default runs in Local Mode. Usually, local modes are used for developing applications and unit testing. Spark can be configured to run in Cluster Mode using YARN Cluster Manager. Currently, Spark supports Three Cluster…

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Pass Functions to pyspark – Run Python Functions on Spark Cluster

Functions in any programming language are used to handle particular task and improve the readability of the overall code. By definition, a function is a block of organized, reusable code that is used to perform a single, related action. Functions provide better modularity for your application and a high degree of code reusing. In this article, we will check how to pass functions to pyspark driver program to execute on cluster. Pass Functions to pyspark Spark API require you to pass functions to driver program so that it will be…

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Hive UDF using Python-Use Python Script into Hive-Example

Hadoop provides an API so that you can write user-defined functions or UDFs using any of your favorite programming language. In this article, we will check how to how to create a custom function for Hive using Python? that is nothing but creating Hive UDF using Python. What is Hive? Hive is a data warehouse ecosystem built on top of Hadoop HDFS to perform batch and ad-hoc query execution on large datasets. Apache Hive can handle petabyte of data. The Hive is designed for OLAP. It is not suited for OLTP…

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Register Python Function into Pyspark – Example

Similar to UDFs in the hive, you can add custom UDFs in pyspark spark context. We have discussed "Register Hive UDF jar into pyspark" in my other post. We have discussed, how to add udf present in jar to spark executor later we register them to Spark SQL using create function command. In this article, we will check how to register Python function into Pyspark with an example. Register Python Function into Pyspark Python is one of the widely used programming languages. Most of the organizations using pyspark to perform…

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Execute Java from Python, Syntax and Examples

As per most of the surveys, Python is one of the fastest growing programming language. From web-development to complex scientific calculation, Python is being used in almost all fields. Similar to Python, Java is also one of the widely used programming languages. In this article, we will check how to get access to Java libraries from Python programs. There are lots of modules available to execute Java from Python. We will be discussing one of the such easiest module in this article. Jpype Python Module Python provides many modules that…

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How to Connect Vertica Database using JDBC Driver?

The Vertica is one of the widely used analytics database clusters. You can connect to Vertica using many methods such as JDBC, ODBC, etc. You can use any programming language that supports JDBC connection string to connect Vertica database using JDBC driver. Almost all modern programming language provides api to use jdbc drivers. In this article, we will check how to connect to Vertica using JDBC driver. We have used Python as a programming language to demonstrate jdbc connection. Vertica JDBC Driver The HP Vertica comes with support to JDBC…

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Create Pyspark sparkContext within python Program

In my other article, we have seen how to connect to Spark using JDBC driver and Jaydebeapi module. Hadoop cluster like Cloudera Hadoop distribution (CDH) does not provide JDBC driver. You either have to create your own JDBC driver by using Spark thrift server or create Pyspark sparkContext within python Program to enter into Apache Spark world. Spark Context or Hive Contex SparkContext or HiveContex is entry gate to interact with Spark engine. When you execute any Spark application, driver program initiates context for you. for example, when you start…

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How to Connect Netezza using JDBC Driver and working Examples

Netezza is one of the widely used MPP database. You connect to it by using various methods and programming languages. Netezza supports ODBC, OLEDB and JDBC drivers for connections. Connection to Netezza using JDBC driver is easy and one of the widely used method. In this article, we will check how to connect Netezza using JDBC driver and some working examples. Netezza JDBC Driver Netezza provides JDBC driver, you can use that driver from any programming language that supports JDBC connections such as Java, Python etc. You can download JDBC…

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Execute Pyspark Script from Python and Examples

As Apache Spark is gaining popularity, most of organizations are trying to integrate existing big data ecosystem to Spark so that they can utilize speed and distributed computation power of Apache Spark. In my earlier post, I have discussed various Methods to Access Hive Tables from Apache Spark to access Spark from from Python. In this post we will discuss how to execute pyspark script from Python with an working examples. Python Pyspark Python is widely used programming language and easy to learn. Well, you can access Apache Spark within python…

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Methods to Access Hive Tables from Python

Apache Hive is database framework on the top of Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) to query structured and semi-structured data. Just like your regular RDBMS, you access hdfs files in the form of tables. You can create tables, views etc in Apache Hive. You can analyze structured data using HiveQL language which is similar to Structural Query Language (SQL). In this article, we will check different methods to access Hive tables from python program. Methods we are going to discuss here will help you to connect Hive tables and get…

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