Hi Gourav,

Do you have any suggestions of how the use of dataframes will solve my
problem?

Cheers,
Sotiris

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 at 17:37 Gourav Sengupta <gourav.sengu...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I still do not understand why people do not use data frames.
>
> It makes you smile, take a sip of fine coffee, and feel good about life
> and its all courtesy@SPARK. :)
>
> Regards,
> Gourav Sengupta
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Ryan <ryan.hd....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it creates a new connection on each worker, whenever the
>> Processor references Resource, it got initialized.
>> There's no need for the driver connect to the db in this case.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:52 PM, salvador <sot.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am writing a spark job from which at some point I want to send some
>>> metrics to InfluxDB. Here is some sample code of how I am doing it at the
>>> moment.
>>>
>>> I have a Resources object class which contains all the details for the db
>>> connection:
>>>
>>> object Resources { def forceInit: () => Unit = () => ()
>>>   val influxHost: String = Config.influxHost.getOrElse("localhost")
>>>   val influxUdpPort: Int = Config.influxUdpPort.getOrElse(30089)
>>>
>>>   val influxDB = new MetricsClient(influxHost, influxUdpPort, "spark")
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> This is how my code on the driver looks like:
>>>
>>> object ProcessStuff extends App {
>>>   val spark = SparkSession .builder() .config(sparkConfig) .getOrCreate()
>>>   val df = spark .read .parquet(Config.input)
>>>
>>>   Resources.forceInit
>>>
>>>   val annotatedSentences = df.rdd
>>>     .map {
>>>       case (Row(a: String, b: String)) => Processor.process(a,b)
>>>     }
>>>     .cache()
>>> }
>>>
>>> I am sending all the metrics I want from the process() method which uses
>>> the
>>> client I initialised on the driver code. Currently this works and I am
>>> able
>>> to send millions of data point. I was just wandering how it works
>>> internally. Does it share the db connection or creates a new connection
>>> every time?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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