Kafka uses an older version of jopt that causes bad conflicts with the version
used by spark-perf. It's not easy to remove this downstream because of the way
that spark-perf uses Spark (by including a spark assembly as an unmanaged jar).
This fixes the problem at its source by just never including it.
This patch adds an operator called repartition with more straightforward
semantics than the current `coalesce` operator. There are a few use cases
where this operator is useful:
1. If a user wants to increase the number of partitions in the RDD. This
is more common now with streaming. E.g. a user is ingesting data on one
node but they want to add more partitions to ensure parallelism of
subsequent operations across threads or the cluster.
Right now they have to call rdd.coalesce(numSplits, shuffle=true) - that's
super confusing.
2. If a user has input data where the number of partitions is not known. E.g.
> sc.textFile("some file").coalesce(50)....
This is both vague semantically (am I growing or shrinking this RDD) but also,
may not work correctly if the base RDD has fewer than 50 partitions.
The new operator forces shuffles every time, so it will always produce exactly
the number of new partitions. It also throws an exception rather than silently
not-working if a bad input is passed.
I am currently adding streaming tests (requires refactoring some of the test
suite to allow testing at partition granularity), so this is not ready for
merge yet. But feedback is welcome.
MQTT Adapter for Spark Streaming
MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things connectivity protocol.
It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. You may read more about it here http://mqtt.org/
Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is an open message protocol for M2M communications. It enables the transfer of telemetry-style data in the form of messages from devices like sensors and actuators, to mobile phones, embedded systems on vehicles, or laptops and full scale computers.
The protocol was invented by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM, and Arlen Nipper of Cirrus Link Solutions
This protocol enables a publish/subscribe messaging model in an extremely lightweight way. It is useful for connections with remote locations where line of code and network bandwidth is a constraint.
MQTT is one of the widely used protocol for 'Internet of Things'. This protocol is getting much attraction as anything and everything is getting connected to internet and they all produce data. Researchers and companies predict some 25 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2015.
Plugin/Support for MQTT is available in popular MQs like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc.
Support for MQTT in Spark will help people with Internet of Things (IoT) projects to use Spark Streaming for their real time data processing needs (from sensors and other embedded devices etc).
Serialize and restore spark.cleaner.ttl to savepoint
In accordance to conversation in spark-dev maillist, preserve spark.cleaner.ttl parameter when serializing checkpoint.
This is an unfortunately invasive change which converts all of our BlockId
strings into actual BlockId types. Here are some advantages of doing this now:
+ Type safety
+ Code clarity - it's now obvious what the key of a shuffle or rdd block is,
for instance. Additionally, appearing in tuple/map type signatures is a big
readability bonus. A Seq[(String, BlockStatus)] is not very clear.
Further, we can now use more Scala features, like matching on BlockId types.
+ Explicit usage - we can now formally tell where various BlockIds are being used
(without doing string searches); this makes updating current BlockIds a much
clearer process, and compiler-supported.
(I'm looking at you, shuffle file consolidation.)
+ It will only get harder to make this change as time goes on.
Since this touches a lot of files, it'd be best to either get this patch
in quickly or throw it on the ground to avoid too many secondary merge conflicts.
