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The current statement in the user guide may deliver confusing messages to users. spark.ml contains high-level APIs for building ML pipelines. But it doesn't mean that spark.mllib is being deprecated. First of all, the pipeline API is in its alpha stage and we need to see more use cases from the community to stabilizes it, which may take several releases. Secondly, the components in spark.ml are simple wrappers over spark.mllib implementations. Neither the APIs or the implementations from spark.mllib are being deprecated. We expect users use spark.ml pipeline APIs to build their ML pipelines, but we will keep supporting and adding features to spark.mllib. For example, there are many features in review at https://spark-prs.appspot.com/#mllib. So users should be comfortable with using spark.mllib features and expect more coming. The user guide needs to be updated to make the message clear. Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com> Closes #4052 from mengxr/SPARK-5254 and squashes the following commits: 6d5f1d3 [Xiangrui Meng] typo 0cc935b [Xiangrui Meng] update user guide to position spark.ml better |
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Apache Spark
Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, and Python, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and structured data processing, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.
Online Documentation
You can find the latest Spark documentation, including a programming guide, on the project web page and project wiki. This README file only contains basic setup instructions.
Building Spark
Spark is built using Apache Maven. To build Spark and its example programs, run:
mvn -DskipTests clean package
(You do not need to do this if you downloaded a pre-built package.) More detailed documentation is available from the project site, at "Building Spark with Maven".
Interactive Scala Shell
The easiest way to start using Spark is through the Scala shell:
./bin/spark-shell
Try the following command, which should return 1000:
scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()
Interactive Python Shell
Alternatively, if you prefer Python, you can use the Python shell:
./bin/pyspark
And run the following command, which should also return 1000:
>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()
Example Programs
Spark also comes with several sample programs in the examples
directory.
To run one of them, use ./bin/run-example <class> [params]
. For example:
./bin/run-example SparkPi
will run the Pi example locally.
You can set the MASTER environment variable when running examples to submit
examples to a cluster. This can be a mesos:// or spark:// URL,
"yarn-cluster" or "yarn-client" to run on YARN, and "local" to run
locally with one thread, or "local[N]" to run locally with N threads. You
can also use an abbreviated class name if the class is in the examples
package. For instance:
MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi
Many of the example programs print usage help if no params are given.
Running Tests
Testing first requires building Spark. Once Spark is built, tests can be run using:
./dev/run-tests
Please see the guidance on how to run all automated tests.
A Note About Hadoop Versions
Spark uses the Hadoop core library to talk to HDFS and other Hadoop-supported storage systems. Because the protocols have changed in different versions of Hadoop, you must build Spark against the same version that your cluster runs.
Please refer to the build documentation at "Specifying the Hadoop Version" for detailed guidance on building for a particular distribution of Hadoop, including building for particular Hive and Hive Thriftserver distributions. See also "Third Party Hadoop Distributions" for guidance on building a Spark application that works with a particular distribution.
Configuration
Please refer to the Configuration guide in the online documentation for an overview on how to configure Spark.