XmlStaxInputFormat / XmlStaxFileRecordReader Github Project – https://github.com/gss2002/xml-stax-mr After some time it seemed like a gap that existed with Hadoop MapReduce and Spark that the existing XmlInputFormat classes from Mahout were using fseek and searching for strings as the file is read in from HDFS. The ability to break up a large Xml file becomes extremely important…
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Building an RPM for Spark 2.x for Vendor Hadoop Distribution It may be necessary to produce an alternate packaged version of Spark for usage in a vendor provided Hadoop Distribution. This became apparent many times to me when loading Hortonworks HDP into an Enterprise Environment where update/upgrade cycles do not allow for upgrade of HDFS…
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Using Apache Spark to parse a large HDFS archive of Ranger Audit logs using Apache Spark to find and verify if a user attempted to access files in HDFS, Hive or HBase. This eliminates the need to use a Hive SerDe to read these Apache Ranger JSON Files and to have to create an external…
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