A Tale of Three Apache Spark APIs: RDDs, DataFrames and Datasets by Jules Damji

Abstract:- Of all the developers delight, none is more attractive than a set of APIs that make developers productive, that are easy to use, and that are intuitive and expressive. Apache Spark offers these APIs across components such as Spark SQL, Streaming, Machine Learning, and Graph Processing to operate on large data sets in languages such as Scala, Java, Python, and R for doing distributed big data processing at scale. In this talk, I will explore the evolution of three sets of APIs - RDDs, DataFrames, and Datasets available in Apache Spark 2.x. In particular, I will emphasize why and when you should use each set as best practices, outline its performance and optimization benefits, and underscore scenarios when to use DataFrames and Datasets instead of RDDs for your big data distributed processing. Through simple notebook demonstrations with API code examples, you'll learn how to process big data using RDDs, DataFrames, and Datasets and interoperate among them.