『 Spark 』1. spark 簡介

原文連接：『 Spark 』1. spark 簡介

寫在前面

本系列是綜合了本身在學習spark過程當中的理解記錄 ＋ 對參考文章中的一些理解 ＋ 我的實踐spark過程當中的一些心得而來。寫這樣一個系列僅僅是爲了梳理我的學習spark的筆記記錄，並不是爲了作什麼教程，因此一切以我的理解梳理爲主，沒有必要的細節就不會記錄了。若想深刻了解，最好閱讀參考文章和官方文檔。

其次，本系列是基於目前最新的 spark 1.6.0 系列開始的，spark 目前的更新速度很快，記錄一下版本好仍是必要的。
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1. 如何向別人介紹 spark

Apache Spark™ is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing.

Apache Spark is a fast and general-purpose cluster computing system.
It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs.
It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including :

• Spark SQL for SQL and structured data processing, extends to DataFrames and DataSets

• MLlib for machine learning

• GraphX for graph processing

• Spark Streaming for stream data processing

2. spark 誕生的一些背景

Spark started in 2009, open sourced 2010, unlike the various specialized systems[hadoop, storm], Spark’s goal was to :

• generalize MapReduce to support new apps within same engine

  • it's perfectly compatible with hadoop, can run on Hadoop, Mesos, standalone, or in the cloud. It can access diverse data sources including HDFS, Cassandra, HBase, and S3.

• speed up iteration computing over hadoop.

  • use memory + disk instead of disk as data storage medium

  • design a new programming modal, RDD, which make the data processing more graceful [RDD transformation, action, distributed jobs, stages and tasks]

3. 爲什麼選用 spark

• designed, implemented and used as libs, instead of specialized systems;

  • much more useful and maintainable

• from history, it is designed and improved upon hadoop and storm, it has perfect genes;

• documents, community, products and trends;

• it provides sql, dataframes, datasets, machine learning lib, graph computing lib and activitily growth 3-party lib, easy to use, cover lots of use cases in lots field;

• it provides ad-hoc exploring, which boost your data exploring and pre-processing and help you build your data ETL, processing job;

4. Next

下一篇，簡單介紹 spark 裏必須深入理解的基本概念。

參考文章

• Intro to Apache Spark

• introducing spark

本系列文章連接

• 『 Spark 』1. spark 簡介

• 『 Spark 』2. spark 基本概念解析

• 『 Spark 』3. spark 編程模式

• 『 Spark 』4. spark 之 RDD

• 『 Spark 』5. 這些年，你不能錯過的 spark 學習資源

• 『 Spark 』6. 深刻研究 spark 運行原理之 job, stage, task

• 『 Spark 』7. 使用 Spark DataFrame 進行大數據分析