An Introduction to Spark

Gain insights into Spark, its architecture, application lifecycle, and APIs. Delve into data frames, datasets, and Spark SQL to effectively manage and query big data.

Beginner

26 Lessons

2h 50min

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into Spark, its architecture, application lifecycle, and APIs. Delve into data frames, datasets, and Spark SQL to effectively manage and query big data.

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Course Overview

Spark has come to dominate the big data processing space in a short span of time since its release and now serves as the de-facto unified big data processing engine in the industry. In this course, you will get a complete introduction to the basics of Spark. You will start by learning about the architecture, the application lifecycle, and its API. From there, you will dive into the data frame data structure and its API as well as the strongly-typed datasets API. Lastly, you’ll get into the Spark SQL engi...Show More

What You'll Learn

Basics of Spark

Spark Architecture

Spark SQL

Spark DataFrames

Spark Datasets

What You'll Learn

Basics of Spark

Course Content

Spark Overview

Get familiar with Spark's platform, architecture, application lifecycle, APIs, and RDDs.

Introduction

Spark Differentiation Architecture Spark Application Lifecycle Spark API Anatomy of a Spark Application Execution of a Spark Application Resilient Distributed Datasets Spark Application - An Example

DataFrames

Grasp the fundamentals of Spark DataFrames for efficient, structured data analysis and manipulation.

DataFrames Working with DataFrames Columns

Rows More Operations with DataFrames

Datasets

Break apart the essentials of Spark Datasets, including creation, schema definitions, and encoder utilization.

Datasets Working with Datasets Datasets with Scala Case Class and Java Bean Class Encoders

Spark SQL

Grasp the fundamentals of Spark SQL, its engine, views, UDFs, and advanced functions.

Spark SQL Engine Spark SQL - An Example Spark SQL Views and Tables Spark SQL Data Source Spark User Defined Functions Higher-Order Function

Joins, Unions, and Window Functions

Summary

Take a closer look at Spark's integration in Big Data, offering foundational knowledge.

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