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A curated list of awesome Apache Spark packages and resources.

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Awesome Spark Awesome

A curated list of awesome Apache Spark packages and resources.

Apache Spark is an open-source cluster-computing framework. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley's AMPLab, the Spark codebase was later donated to the Apache Software Foundation, which has maintained it since. Spark provides an interface for programming entire clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault-tolerance (Wikipedia 2017).

Users of Apache Spark may choose between different the Python, R, Scala and Java programming languages to interface with the Apache Spark APIs.

Contents

Packages

Language Bindings

Notebooks and IDEs

  • almond - A scala kernel for Jupyter.
  • Apache Zeppelin - Web-based notebook that enables interactive data analytics with plugable backends, integrated plotting, and extensive Spark support out-of-the-box.
  • Polynote - Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook. It supports mixing multiple languages in one notebook, and sharing data between them seamlessly. It encourages reproducible notebooks with its immutable data model. Orginating from Netflix.
  • Spark Notebook - Scalable and stable Scala and Spark focused notebook bridging the gap between JVM and Data Scientists (incl. extendable, typesafe and reactive charts).
  • sparkmagic - Jupyter magics and kernels for working with remote Spark clusters, for interactively working with remote Spark clusters through Livy, in Jupyter notebooks.

General Purpose Libraries

  • Succinct - Support for efficient queries on compressed data.
  • itachi - A library that brings useful functions from modern database management systems to Apache Spark.

SQL Data Sources

SparkSQL has serveral built-in Data Sources for files. These include csv, json, parquet, orc, and avro. It also supports JDBC databases as well as Apache Hive. Additional data sources can be added by including the packages listed below, or writing your own.

Storage

  • Delta Lake - Storage layer with ACID transactions.

Bioinformatics

  • ADAM - Set of tools designed to analyse genomics data.
  • Hail - Genetic analysis framework.

GIS

  • Magellan - Geospatial analytics using Spark.
  • GeoSpark - Cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data.

Time Series Analytics

  • Spark-Timeseries - Scala / Java / Python library for interacting with time series data on Apache Spark.
  • flint - A time series library for Apache Spark.

Graph Processing

  • Mazerunner - Graph analytics platform on top of Neo4j and GraphX.
  • GraphFrames - Data frame based graph API.
  • neo4j-spark-connector - Bolt protocol based, Neo4j Connector with RDD, DataFrame and GraphX / GraphFrames support.
  • SparklingGraph - Library extending GraphX features with multiple functionalities useful in graph analytics (measures, generators, link prediction etc.).

Machine Learning Extension

Middleware

  • Livy - REST server with extensive language support (Python, R, Scala), ability to maintain interactive sessions and object sharing.
  • spark-jobserver - Simple Spark as a Service which supports objects sharing using so called named objects. JVM only.
  • Mist - Service for exposing Spark analytical jobs and machine learning models as realtime, batch or reactive web services.
  • Apache Toree - IPython protocol based middleware for interactive applications.
  • Kyuubi - Improved implementation of Thrift JDBC/ODBC Serve.

Monitoring

Utilities

  • silex - Collection of tools varying from ML extensions to additional RDD methods.
  • sparkly - Helpers & syntactic sugar for PySpark.
  • pyspark-stubs - Static type annotations for PySpark (obsolete since Spark 3.1. See SPARK-32681).
  • Flintrock - A command-line tool for launching Spark clusters on EC2.
  • Optimus - Data Cleansing and Exploration utilities with the goal of simplifying data cleaning.

Natural Language Processing

Streaming

  • Apache Bahir - Collection of the streaming connectors excluded from Spark 2.0 (Akka, MQTT, Twitter. ZeroMQ).

Interfaces

  • Apache Beam - Unified data processing engine supporting both batch and streaming applications. Apache Spark is one of the supported execution environments.
  • Blaze - Interface for querying larger than memory datasets using Pandas-like syntax. It supports both Spark DataFrames and RDDs.
  • Koalas - Pandas DataFrame API on top of Apache Spark.

Testing

  • deequ - Deequ is a library built on top of Apache Spark for defining "unit tests for data", which measure data quality in large datasets.
  • spark-testing-base - Collection of base test classes.
  • spark-fast-tests - A lightweight and fast testing framework.

Web Archives

Workflow Management

Resources

Books

Papers

MOOCS

Workshops

Projects Using Spark

  • Oryx 2 - Lambda architecture platform built on Apache Spark and Apache Kafka with specialization for real-time large scale machine learning.
  • Photon ML - A machine learning library supporting classical Generalized Mixed Model and Generalized Additive Mixed Effect Model.
  • PredictionIO - Machine Learning server for developers and data scientists to build and deploy predictive applications in a fraction of the time.
  • Crossdata - Data integration platform with extended DataSource API and multi-user environment.

Blogs

  • Spark Technology Center - Great source of highly diverse posts related to Spark ecosystem. From practical advices to Spark commiter profiles.

Docker Images

Miscellaneous

References

Wikipedia. 2017. “Apache Spark — Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apache_Spark&oldid=781182753.

License

Public Domain Mark
This work (Awesome Spark, by https://github.com/awesome-spark/awesome-spark), identified by Maciej Szymkiewicz, is free of known copyright restrictions.

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