Top "Rdd" questions

Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) are a distributed memory abstraction that allows programmers to perform in-memory computations on large clusters while retaining the fault tolerance of data flow models like MapReduce.

Is there an "Explain RDD" in spark

In particular, if I say rdd3 = rdd1.join(rdd2) then when I call rdd3.collect, depending on the Partitioner used, …

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Spark: difference when read in .gz and .bz2

I normally read and write files in Spark using .gz, which the number of files should be the same as …

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Spark when union a lot of RDD throws stack overflow error

When I use "++" to combine a lot of RDDs, I got error stack over flow error. Spark version 1.3.1 Environment: yarn-client. …

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Spark: group concat equivalent in scala rdd

I have following DataFrame: |-----id-------|----value------|-----desc------| | 1 | v1 | d1 | | 1 | v2 | d2 | | 2 | v21 | d21 | | 2 | v22 | d22 | |--------------|---------------|---------------| I want …

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What are Spark RDD graph, lineage graph, DAG of Spark tasks? what are their relations

When we talk about RDD graphs, does it mean lineage graph or DAG (direct acyclic graph) or both? and when …

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Would Spark unpersist the RDD itself when it realizes it won't be used anymore?

We can persist an RDD into memory and/or disk when we want to use it more than once. However, …

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