Thanks Matt, Unlike the feared RDD operations on the driver, it's my understanding that these Dstream ops on the driver are merely creating an execution plan for each RDD. My question still remains: Is it better to foreachRDD early in the process or do as much Dstream transformations before going into the foreachRDD call?
Maybe this will require some empirical testing specific to each implementation? -kr, Gerard. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Matt Narrell <matt.narr...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html > > foreachRDD is executed on the driver…. > > mn > > On Oct 20, 2014, at 3:07 AM, Gerard Maas <gerard.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Pinging TD -- I'm sure you know :-) > > -kr, Gerard. > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Gerard Maas <gerard.m...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We have been implementing several Spark Streaming jobs that are basically >> processing data and inserting it into Cassandra, sorting it among different >> keyspaces. >> >> We've been following the pattern: >> >> dstream.foreachRDD(rdd => >> val records = rdd.map(elem => record(elem)) >> targets.foreach(target => records.filter{record => >> isTarget(target,record)}.writeToCassandra(target,table)) >> ) >> >> I've been wondering whether there would be a performance difference in >> transforming the dstream instead of transforming the RDD within the dstream >> with regards to how the transformations get scheduled. >> >> Instead of the RDD-centric computation, I could transform the dstream >> until the last step, where I need an rdd to store. >> For example, the previous transformation could be written as: >> >> val recordStream = dstream.map(elem => record(elem)) >> targets.foreach{target => recordStream.filter(record => >> isTarget(target,record)).foreachRDD(_.writeToCassandra(target,table))} >> >> Would be a difference in execution and/or performance? What would be >> the preferred way to do this? >> >> Bonus question: Is there a better (more performant) way to sort the data >> in different "buckets" instead of filtering the data collection times the >> #buckets? >> >> thanks, Gerard. >> >> > >
