Spark cached Dataset not reused in join - apache-spark

After some complex transformations I call cache on dataset.
val complexDs = (some joins and transformations).cache
complexDs.count //invoke action and store dataset in memory
Then I define method like this:
def getCountForType(input: Dataset[Row], tp: String):Dataset[Row] = {
input
.groupBy($"column1",$"column2")
.agg(sum(when($"typeColumn" === tp,1).otherwise(0).as("some_column_name")) }
Now I create several new datasets by executing this method.
val newDs1 = getCountForType(complexDs, "aType")
val newDs2 = getCountForType(complexDs, "bType")
And funny part comes. When I call action on each of this several new datasets separately, I get results instantaneously and on SparkUI you can tell there is in memory table scan...But when I try to do join like this:
val finalDs = newDs1.as("a").join(newDs2.as("b"), $"a.column1" ===
$"b.column1" && $"a.column2" === $"b.column2)
display(finalDs)
I can tell something is wrong as execution gets terribly slow and on SparkUI, one dataset is read from cache and other one generated from beginning. Anyone has idea what is going on?
UPDATE
When i try(just for testing purposes) to union newDs1 and newDs2, I see there are 2 in memory table scans and results are instantaneous. Here are 2 screenshots of DAG. Union - reads already calculated data from memory, Join - calculates one dataset from beggining.

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Spark: problem with crossJoin (takes a tremendous amount of time)

First of all, I have to say that I've already tried everything I know or found on google (Including this Spark: How to use crossJoin which is exactly my problem).
I have to calculate the Cartesian product between two DataFrame - countries and units such that -
A.cache().count()
val units = A.groupBy("country")
.agg(sum("grade").as("grade"),
sum("point").as("point"))
.withColumn("AVR", $"grade" / $"point" * 1000)
.drop("point", "grade")
val countries = D.select("country").distinct()
val C = countries.crossJoin(units)
countries contains a countries name and its size bounded by 150. units is DataFrame with 3 rows - an aggregated result of other DataFrame. I checked 100 times the result and those are the sizes indeed - and it takes 5 hours to complete.
I know I missed something. I've tried caching, repartitioning, etc.
I would love to get some other ideas.
I have two suggestions for you:
Look at the explain plan and the spark properties, for the amount of data you have mentioned 5 hours is a really long time. My expectation is you have way too many shuffles, you can look at different properties like : spark.sql.shuffle.partitions
Instead of doing a cross join, you can maybe do a collect and explore broadcasts
https://sparkbyexamples.com/spark/spark-broadcast-variables/ but do this only on small amounts of data as this data is brought back to the driver.
What is the action you are doing afterwards with C?
Also, if these datasets are so small, consider collecting them to the driver, and doing these manupulation there, you can always spark.createDataFrame later again.
Update #1:
final case class Unit(country: String, AVR: Double)
val collectedUnits: Seq[Unit] = units.as[Unit].collect
val collectedCountries: Seq[String] = countries.collect
val pairs: Seq[(String, Unit)] = for {
unit <- units
country <- countries
} yield (country, unit)
I've finally understood the problem - Spark used too many excessive numbers of partitions, and thus the shuffle takes a lot of time.
The way to solve it is to change the default number -
sparkSession.conf.set("spark.sql.shuffle.partitions", 10)
And it works like magic.

Apache Spark write to multiple outputs [different parquet schemas] without caching

I want to transform my input data (XML files) and produce 3 different outputs.
Each output will be in parquet format and will have a different schema/number of columns.
Currently in my solution, the data is stored in RDD[Row], where each Row belongs to one of three types and has a different number of fields. What I'm doing now is caching the RDD, then filtering it (using the field telling me about the record type) and saving the data using the following method:
var resultDF_1 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(filtered_data_1, schema_1)
resultDF_1.write.parquet(output_path_1)
...
// the same for filtered_data_2 and filtered_data_3
Is there any way to do it better, for example do not cache entire data in memory?
In MapReduce we have MultipleOutputs class and we can do it this way:
MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(job, "data_type_1", DataType1OutputFormat.class, Void.class, Group.class);
MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(job, "data_type_2", DataType2OutputFormat.class, Void.class, Group.class);
MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(job, "data_type_3", DataType3OutputFormat.class, Void.class, Group.class);
...
MultipleOutputs<Void, Group> mos = new MultipleOutputs<>(context);
mos.write("data_type_1", null, myRecordGroup1, filePath1);
mos.write("data_type_2", null, myRecordGroup2, filePath2);
...
We had exactly this problem, to re-iterate: we read 1000s of datasets into one RDD, all of different schemas (we used a nested Map[String, Any]) and wanted to write those 1000s of datasets to different Parquet partitions in their respective schemas. All in a single embarrassingly parallel Spark Stage.
Our initial approach indeed did the hacky thing of caching, but this meant (a) 1000 passes of the cached data (b) hitting a lot of memory issues!
For a long time now I've wanted to bypass the Spark's provided .parquet methods and go to lower level underlying libraries, and wrap that in a nice functional signature. Finally recently we did exactly this!
The code is too much to copy and paste all of it here, so I will just paste the main crux of the code to explain how it works. We intend on making this code Open Source in the next year or two.
val successFiles: List[String] = successFilePaths(tableKeyToSchema, tableKeyToOutputKey, tableKeyToOutputKeyNprs)
// MUST happen first
info("Deleting success files")
successFiles.foreach(S3Utils.deleteObject(bucket, _))
if (saveMode == SaveMode.Overwrite) {
info("Deleting past files as in Overwrite mode")
parDeleteDirContents(bucket, allDirectories(tableKeyToOutputKey, tableKeyToOutputKeyNprs, partitions, continuallyRunStartTime))
} else {
info("Not deleting past files as in Append mode")
}
rdd.mapPartitionsWithIndex {
case (index, records) =>
records.toList.groupBy(_._1).mapValues(_.map(_._2)).foreach {
case (regularKey: RegularKey, data: List[NotProcessableRecord Either UntypedStruct]) =>
val (nprs: List[NotProcessableRecord], successes: List[UntypedStruct]) =
Foldable[List].partitionEither(data)(identity)
val filename = s"part-by-partition-index-$index.snappy.parquet"
Parquet.writeUntypedStruct(
data = successes,
schema = toMessageType(tableKeyToSchema(regularKey.tableKey)),
fsMode = fs,
path = s3 / bucket / tableKeyToOutputKey(regularKey.tableKey) / regularKey.partition.pathSuffix /?
continuallyRunStartTime.map(hourMinutePathSuffix) / filename
)
Parquet.writeNPRs(
nprs = nprs,
fsMode = fs,
path = s3 / bucket / tableKeyToOutputKeyNprs(regularKey.tableKey) / regularKey.partition.pathSuffix /?
continuallyRunStartTime.map(hourMinutePathSuffix) / filename
)
} pipe Iterator.single
}.count() // Just some action to force execution
info("Writing _SUCCESS files")
successFiles.foreach(S3Utils.uploadFileContent(bucket, "", _))
Of course this code cannot be copy and pasted as many methods and values are not provided. The key points are:
We hand crank the deleting of _SUCCESS files and previous files when overwriting
Each spark partition will result in one-or-many output files (many when multiple data schemas are in the same partition)
We hand crank the writing of _SUCCESS files
Notes:
UntypedStruct is our nested representation of arbitrary schema. It's a little bit like Row in Spark but much better, as it's based on Map[String, Any].
NotProcessableRecord are essentially just dead letters
Parquet.writeUntypedStruct is the crux of the logic of writing a parquet file, so we'll explain this in more detail. Firstly
val toMessageType: StructType => MessageType = new org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.SparkToParquetSchemaConverter().convert
Should be self explanatory. Next fsMode contains within it the com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentials, then inside writeUntypedStruct we use that to construct org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration setting fs.s3a.access.key and fs.s3a.secret.key.
writeUntypedStruct basically just calls out to:
def writeRaw(
data: List[UntypedStruct],
schema: MessageType,
config: Configuration,
path: Path,
compression: CompressionCodecName = CompressionCodecName.SNAPPY
): Unit =
Using.resource(
ExampleParquetWriter.builder(path)
.withType(schema)
.withConf(config)
.withCompressionCodec(compression)
.withValidation(true)
.build()
)(writer => data.foreach(data => writer.write(transpose(data, new SimpleGroup(schema)))))
where SimpleGroup comes from org.apache.parquet.example.data.simple, and ExampleParquetWriter extends ParquetWriter<Group>. The method transpose is a very tedious self writing recursion through the UntypedStruct populating a Group (some ugly Java mutable low level thing).
Credit must go to https://github.com/davidainslie for figuring out how these underlying libraries work, and labouring out the code, which like I said, we intend on making Open Source soon!
AFAIK, there is no way to split one RDD into multiple RDD per se. This is just how the way Spark's DAG works: only child RDDs pulling data from parent RDDs.
We can, however, have multiple child RDDs reading from the same parent RDD. To avoid recomputing the parent RDD, there is no other way but to cache it. I assume that you want to avoid caching because you're afraid of insufficient memory. We can avoid Out Of Memory (OOM) issue by persisting the RDD to MEMORY_AND_DISK so that large RDD will spill to disk if and when needed.
Let's begin with your original data:
val allDataRDD = sc.parallelize(Seq(Row(1,1,1),Row(2,2,2),Row(3,3,3)))
We can persist this in memory first, but allow it to spill over to disk in case of insufficient memory:
allDataRDD.persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK)
We then create the 3 RDD outputs:
filtered_data_1 = allDataRDD.filter(_.get(1)==1) // //
filtered_data_2 = allDataRDD.filter(_.get(2)==1) // use your own filter funcs here
filtered_data_3 = allDataRDD.filter(_.get(3)==1) // //
We then write the outputs:
var resultDF_1 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(filtered_data_1, schema_1)
resultDF_1.write.parquet(output_path_1)
var resultDF_2 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(filtered_data_2, schema_2)
resultDF_2.write.parquet(output_path_2)
var resultDF_3 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(filtered_data_3, schema_3)
resultDF_3.write.parquet(output_path_3)
If you truly really want to avoid multiple passes, there is a workaround using a custom partitioner. You can repartition your data into 3 partitions and each partition will have its own task and hence its own output file/part. The caveat is that parallelism will be heavily reduced to 3 threads/tasks, and there's also the risk of >2GB of data stored in a single partition (Spark has a 2GB limit per partition). I am not providing detailed code for this method because I don't think it can write parquet files with different schema.

Spark write only to one hbase region server

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableOutputFormat
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableInputFormat
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable
import org.apache.spark.rdd.PairRDDFunctions
def bulkWriteToHBase(sparkSession: SparkSession, sparkContext: SparkContext, jobContext: Map[String, String], sinkTableName: String, outRDD: RDD[(ImmutableBytesWritable, Put)]): Unit = {
val hConf = HBaseConfiguration.create()
hConf.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", jobContext("hbase.zookeeper.quorum"))
hConf.set("zookeeper.znode.parent", jobContext("zookeeper.znode.parent"))
hConf.set(TableInputFormat.INPUT_TABLE, sinkTableName)
val hJob = Job.getInstance(hConf)
hJob.getConfiguration().set(TableOutputFormat.OUTPUT_TABLE, sinkTableName)
hJob.setOutputFormatClass(classOf[TableOutputFormat[ImmutableBytesWritable]])
outRDD.saveAsNewAPIHadoopDataset(hJob.getConfiguration())
}
what I have found by using this hbase bulk insertion is that, every time spark will only write into one single region server from hbase, which becomes the bottleneck.
however when I use almost the same approach but reading from hbase, it is using multiple executors to do parallel reading .
def bulkReadFromHBase(sparkSession: SparkSession, sparkContext: SparkContext, jobContext: Map[String, String], sourceTableName: String) = {
val hConf = HBaseConfiguration.create()
hConf.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", jobContext("hbase.zookeeper.quorum"))
hConf.set("zookeeper.znode.parent", jobContext("zookeeper.znode.parent"))
hConf.set(TableInputFormat.INPUT_TABLE, sourceTableName)
val inputRDD = sparkContext.newAPIHadoopRDD(hConf, classOf[TableInputFormat], classOf[ImmutableBytesWritable], classOf[Result])
inputRDD
}
can anyone please explain why this could happen? or maybe I have
used the wrong way for spark-hbase bulk I/O ?
Question : I have used the wrong way for spark-hbase bulk I/O ?
No your way is right, although, you need to pre-split regions before hand & create table with presplit regions.
for example create 'test_table', 'f1', SPLITS=> ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']
Above table occupies 9 regions..
design good rowkey with will starts with 1-9
you can use guava murmur hash like below.
import com.google.common.hash.HashCode;
import com.google.common.hash.HashFunction;
import com.google.common.hash.Hashing;
/**
* getMurmurHash.
*
* #param content
* #return HashCode
*/
public static HashCode getMurmurHash(String content) {
final HashFunction hf = Hashing.murmur3_128();
final HashCode hc = hf.newHasher().putString(content, Charsets.UTF_8).hash();
return hc;
}
final long hash = getMurmur128Hash(Bytes.toString(yourrowkey as string)).asLong();
final int prefix = Math.abs((int) hash % 9);
now append this prefix to your rowkey
For example
1rowkey1 // will go in to first region
2rowkey2 // will go in to
second region
3rowkey3 // will go in to third region
...
9rowkey9 //
will go in to ninth region
If you are doing pre-splitting, and want to manually manage region splits, you can also disable region splits, by setting hbase.hregion.max.filesize to a high number and setting the split policy to ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy. However, you should use a safeguard value of like 100GB, so that regions does not grow beyond a region server’s capabilities. You can consider disabling automated splitting and rely on the initial set of regions from pre-splitting for example, if you are using uniform hashes for your key prefixes, and you can ensure that the read/write load to each region as well as its size is uniform across the regions in the table
1) please ensure that you can presplit the table before loading data in to hbase table 2) Design good rowkey as Explained below using murmurhash or some other hashing technique. to ensure uniform distribution across the regions.
Also look at http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/
Question : can anyone please explain why this could happen?
reason is quite obvious and simple HOT SPOTTING of data in to one specific reason becuase of poor rowkey for that table...
Consider a hashmap in java which has elements with hashcode 1234. then it will fill all the elements in one bucket isntit ? If hashmap elements are distributed across different good hashcode then it will put elements in different buckets. same is the case with hbase. here your hashcode is just like your rowkey...
Further more,
What happens if I already have a table and I want to split the regions
across...
The RegionSplitter class provides several utilities to help in the administration lifecycle for developers who choose to manually split regions instead of having HBase handle that automatically.
The most useful utilities are:
Create a table with a specified number of pre-split regions
Execute a rolling split of all regions on an existing table
Example :
$ hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.RegionSplitter test_table HexStringSplit -c 10 -f f1
where -c 10, specifies the requested number of regions as 10, and -f specifies the column families you want in the table, separated by “:”. The tool will create a table named “test_table” with 10 regions:
13/01/18 18:49:32 DEBUG hbase.HRegionInfo: Current INFO from scan results = {NAME => 'test_table,,1358563771069.acc1ad1b7962564fc3a43e5907e8db33.', STARTKEY => '', ENDKEY => '19999999', ENCODED => acc1ad1b7962564fc3a43e5907e8db33,}
13/01/18 18:49:32 DEBUG hbase.HRegionInfo: Current INFO from scan results = {NAME => 'test_table,19999999,1358563771096.37ec12df6bd0078f5573565af415c91b.', STARTKEY => '19999999', ENDKEY => '33333332', ENCODED => 37ec12df6bd0078f5573565af415c91b,}
...
as discussed in comment, you found that my final RDD right before writing into hbase only has 1 partition! which indicates that there
was only one executor holding the entire data... I am still trying to
find out why.
Also, Check
spark.default.parallelism defaults to the number of all cores on all
machines. The parallelize api has no parent RDD to determine the
number of partitions, so it uses the spark.default.parallelism.
So You can increase partitions by repartitioning.
NOTE : I observed that, In Mapreduce The number of partitions of the regions/input split = number of mappers launched.. Similarly in your case it may be the same situation where data loaded in to one particular region thats why one executor lauched. please verify that as well
Though you have not provided example data or enough explanation,this is mostly not due to your code or configuration.
It is happening so,due to non-optimal rowkey design.
The data you are writing is having keys(hbase rowkey) improperly structured(maybe monotonically increasing or something else).So, write to one of the regions is happening.You can prevent that thro' various ways(various recommended practices for rowkey design like salting,inverting,and other techniques).
For reference you can see http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#rowkey.design
In case,if you are wondering whether the write is done in parallel for all regions or one by one(not clear from question) look at this :
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#_bulk_load.

Filtering Spark DataFrame on new column

Context: I have a dataset too large to fit in memory I am training a Keras RNN on. I am using PySpark on an AWS EMR Cluster to train the model in batches that are small enough to be stored in memory. I was not able to implement the model as distributed using elephas and I suspect this is related to my model being stateful. I'm not entirely sure though.
The dataframe has a row for every user and days elapsed from the day of install from 0 to 29. After querying the database I do a number of operations on the dataframe:
query = """WITH max_days_elapsed AS (
SELECT user_id,
max(days_elapsed) as max_de
FROM table
GROUP BY user_id
)
SELECT table.*
FROM table
LEFT OUTER JOIN max_days_elapsed USING (user_id)
WHERE max_de = 1
AND days_elapsed < 1"""
df = read_from_db(query) #this is just a custom function to query our database
#Create features vector column
assembler = VectorAssembler(inputCols=features_list, outputCol="features")
df_vectorized = assembler.transform(df)
#Split users into train and test and assign batch number
udf_randint = udf(lambda x: np.random.randint(0, x), IntegerType())
training_users, testing_users = df_vectorized.select("user_id").distinct().randomSplit([0.8,0.2],123)
training_users = training_users.withColumn("batch_number", udf_randint(lit(N_BATCHES)))
#Create and sort train and test dataframes
train = df_vectorized.join(training_users, ["user_id"], "inner").select(["user_id", "days_elapsed","batch_number","features", "kpi1", "kpi2", "kpi3"])
train = train.sort(["user_id", "days_elapsed"])
test = df_vectorized.join(testing_users, ["user_id"], "inner").select(["user_id","days_elapsed","features", "kpi1", "kpi2", "kpi3"])
test = test.sort(["user_id", "days_elapsed"])
The problem I am having is that I cannot seem to be able to filter on batch_number without caching train. I can filter on any of the columns that are in the original dataset in our database, but not on any column I have generated in pyspark after querying the database:
This: train.filter(train["days_elapsed"] == 0).select("days_elapsed").distinct.show() returns only 0.
But, all of these return all of the batch numbers between 0 and 9 without any filtering:
train.filter(train["batch_number"] == 0).select("batch_number").distinct().show()
train.filter(train.batch_number == 0).select("batch_number").distinct().show()
train.filter("batch_number = 0").select("batch_number").distinct().show()
train.filter(col("batch_number") == 0).select("batch_number").distinct().show()
This also does not work:
train.createOrReplaceTempView("train_table")
batch_df = spark.sql("SELECT * FROM train_table WHERE batch_number = 1")
batch_df.select("batch_number").distinct().show()
All of these work if I do train.cache() first. Is that absolutely necessary or is there a way to do this without caching?
Spark >= 2.3 (? - depending on a progress of SPARK-22629)
It should be possible to disable certain optimization using asNondeterministic method.
Spark < 2.3
Don't use UDF to generate random numbers. First of all, to quote the docs:
The user-defined functions must be deterministic. Due to optimization, duplicate invocations may be eliminated or the function may even be invoked more times than it is present in the query.
Even if it wasn't for UDF, there are Spark subtleties, which make it almost impossible to implement this right, when processing single records.
Spark already provides rand:
Generates a random column with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples from U[0.0, 1.0].
and randn
Generates a column with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples from the standard normal distribution.
which can be used to build more complex generator functions.
Note:
There can be some other issues with your code but this makes it unacceptable from the beginning (Random numbers generation in PySpark, pyspark. Transformer that generates a random number generates always the same number).

Awfully slow execution on a small datasets – where to start debugging?

I do some experimentation on a MacBook (i5, 2.6GHz, 8GB ram) with Zeppelin NB and Spark in standalone mode. spark.executor/driver.memory both get 2g. I have also set spark.serializer org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer in spark-defaults.conf, but that seems to be ignored by zeppelin
ALS model
I have trained a ALS model with ~400k (implicit) ratings and want to get recommendations with val allRecommendations = model.recommendProductsForUsers(1)
Sample set
Next I take a sample to play around with
val sampledRecommendations = allRecommendations.sample(false, 0.05, 1234567).cache
This contains 3600 recommendations.
Remove product recommendations that users own
Next I want to remove all ratings for products that a given user already owns, the list I hold in a RDD of the form (user_id, Set[product_ids]): RDD[(Long, scala.collection.mutable.HashSet[Int])]
val productRecommendations = (sampledRecommendations
// add user portfolio to the list, but convert the key from Long to Int first
.join(usersProductsFlat.map( up => (up._1.toInt, up._2) ))
.mapValues(
// (user, (ratings: Array[Rating], usersOwnedProducts: HashSet[Long]))
r => (r._1
.filter( rating => !r._2.contains(rating.product))
.filter( rating => rating.rating > 0.5)
.toList
)
)
// In case there is no recommendation (left), remove the entry
.filter(rating => !rating._2.isEmpty)
).cache
Question 1
Calling this (productRecommendations.count) on the cached sample set generates a stage that includes flatMap at MatrixFactorizationModel.scala:278 with 10,000 tasks, 263.6 MB of input data and 196.0 MB shuffle write. Shouldn't the tiny and cached RDD be used instead and what is going (wr)on(g) here? The execution of the count takes almost 5 minutes!
Question 2
Calling usersProductsFlat.count which is fully cached according to the "Storage" view in the application UI takes ~60 seconds each time. It's 23Mb in size – shouldn't that be a lot faster?
Map to readable form
Next I bring this in some readable form replacing IDs with names from a broadcasted lookup Map to put into a DF/table:
val readableRatings = (productRecommendations
.flatMapValues(x=>x)
.map( r => (r._1, userIdToMailBC.value(r._1), r._2.product.toInt, productIdToNameBC.value(r._2.product), r._2.rating))
).cache
val readableRatingsDF = readableRatings.toDF("user","email", "product_id", "product", "rating").cache
readableRatingsDF.registerTempTable("recommendations")
Select … with patience
The insane part starts here. Doing a SELECT takes several hours (I could never wait for one to finish):
%sql
SELECT COUNT(user) AS usr_cnt, product, AVG(rating) AS avg_rating
FROM recommendations
GROUP BY product
I don't know where to look to find the bottlenecks here, there is obviously some huge kerfuffle going on here! Where can I start looking?
Your number of partitions may be too large. I think you should use about 200 when running in local mode rather than 10000. You can set the number of partitions in different ways. I suggest you edit the spark.default.parallelism flag in the Spark configuration file.

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