API doc update & make Broadcast public
In #413 Broadcast was mistakenly made private[spark]. I changed it to public again. Also exposing id in public given the R frontend requires that.
Copied some of the documentation from the programming guide to API Doc for Broadcast and Accumulator.
This should be cherry picked into branch-0.9 as well for 0.9.0 release.
Note that previously Broadcast class was accidentally marked as private[spark]. It needs to be public
for broadcast variables to work. Also exposing the broadcast varaible id.
Removed unnecessary DStream operations and updated docs
Removed StreamingContext.registerInputStream and registerOutputStream - they were useless. InputDStream has been made to register itself, and just registering a DStream as output stream cause RDD objects to be created but the RDDs will not be computed at all.. Also made DStream.register() private[streaming] for the same reasons.
Updated docs, specially added package documentation for streaming package.
Also, changed NetworkWordCount's input storage level to use MEMORY_ONLY, replication on the local machine causes warning messages (as replication fails) which is scary for a new user trying out his/her first example.
Add Naive Bayes to Python MLlib, and some API fixes
- Added a Python wrapper for Naive Bayes
- Updated the Scala Naive Bayes to match the style of our other
algorithms better and in particular make it easier to call from Java
(added builder pattern, removed default value in train method)
- Updated Python MLlib functions to not require a SparkContext; we can
get that from the RDD the user gives
- Added a toString method in LabeledPoint
- Made the Python MLlib tests run as part of run-tests as well (before
they could only be run individually through each file)
GraphX: Unifying Graphs and Tables
GraphX extends Spark's distributed fault-tolerant collections API and interactive console with a new graph API which leverages recent advances in graph systems (e.g., [GraphLab](http://graphlab.org)) to enable users to easily and interactively build, transform, and reason about graph structured data at scale. See http://amplab.github.io/graphx/.
Thanks to @jegonzal, @rxin, @ankurdave, @dcrankshaw, @jianpingjwang, @amatsukawa, @kellrott, and @adamnovak.
Tasks left:
- [x] Graph-level uncache
- [x] Uncache previous iterations in Pregel
- [x] ~~Uncache previous iterations in GraphLab~~ (postponed to post-release)
- [x] - Describe GC issue with GraphLab
- [ ] Write `docs/graphx-programming-guide.md`
- [x] - Mention future Bagel support in docs
- [ ] - Section on caching/uncaching in docs: As with Spark, cache something that is used more than once. In an iterative algorithm, try to cache and force (i.e., materialize) something every iteration, then uncache the cached things that depended on the newly materialized RDD but that won't be referenced again.
- [x] Undo modifications to core collections and instead copy them to org.apache.spark.graphx
- [x] Make Graph serializable to work around capture in Spark shell
- [x] Rename graph -> graphx in package name and subproject
- [x] Remove standalone PageRank
- [x] ~~Fix amplab/graphx#52 by checking `iter.hasNext`~~
Improvements to external sorting
1. Adds the option of compressing outputs.
2. Adds batching to the serialization to prevent OOM on the read side.
3. Slight renaming of config options.
4. Use Spark's buffer size for reads in addition to writes.
Automatically unpersisting RDDs that have been cleaned up from DStreams
Earlier RDDs generated by DStreams were forgotten but not unpersisted. The system relied on the natural BlockManager LRU to drop the data. The cleaner.ttl was a hammer to clean up RDDs but it is something that needs to be set separately and need to be set very conservatively (at best, few minutes). This automatic unpersisting allows the system to handle this automatically, which reduces memory usage. As a side effect it will also improve GC performance as there are less number of objects stored in memory. In fact, for some workloads, it may allow RDDs to be cached as deserialized, which speeds up processing without too much GC overheads.
This is disabled by default. To enable it set configuration spark.streaming.unpersist to true. In future release, this will be set to true by default.
Also, reduced sleep time in TaskSchedulerImpl.stop() from 5 second to 1 second. From my conversation with Matei, there does not seem to be any good reason for the sleep for letting messages be sent out be so long.
