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This article lists the best [Apache Spark Optimization](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/apache-spark-architecture/) Techniques. It is a fast cluster computing platform developed to perform more computations and stream processing.   Spark can handle various workloads compared to traditional systems that require multiple systems to run and support. Spark facilitates data analysis pipelines in Combination with different processing types necessary for production. It is created to operate with an external cluster manager such as YARN or its stand-alone manager. > An open-source, distributed processing engine and framework of stateful computations written in JAVA and Scala. Click to explore about our, [Distributed Data Processing with Apache Flink](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/data-processing-apache-flink) ### Why is optimization important? We all know that performance is critical during the development of any program; it helps with in-memory data computations. Many techniques can optimize a Spark job, so let’s dig deeper into those techniques individually. ### What are the key features? Some features of Apache Spark include:- - Unified Platform for writing big data applications. - Ease of development. - Designed to be highly accessible. - Spark can run independently. Thus, it gives flexibility. - Cost Efficient. ## How it works? To understand how it works, you need to understand its architecture first, and in the subsequent section, we will elaborate on it. ### What is the architecture? The Run-time architecture of Spark consists of three parts - ### **Spark Driver (Master Process)** The Spark Driver converts the programs into tasks and schedules them for Executors. The Task Scheduler is part of the Driver and helps distribute tasks to Executors. ### **Spark Cluster Manager** A cluster manager is the core in Spark that allows launching executors, and sometimes, drivers can be launched by it. Spark Scheduler schedules the actions and jobs in Spark Application in FIFO way on cluster manager. You should also read about  [Apache Airflow](https://www.xenonstack.com/insights/apache-airflow/). > XenonStack provides analytics Services and Solutions for Real-time and Stream [Data Ingestion](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/big-data-ingestion/), processing, and analysing the data streams quickly and efficiently for the IOT, Monitoring, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance. From the Article, [Streaming and Real-Time Analytics Services](https://www.xenonstack.com/platform-engineering/real-time-analytics/) ### **Executors (Slave Processes)** Slave processes or Executors are the individual entities on which the individual task of the job runs. They will always run until a spark Application's lifecycle is launched. Failed executors don't stop the execution of the spark job. ### **RDD (Resilient Distributed Datasets)** An RDD is a distributed collection of immutable datasets on distributed nodes of the cluster. It is partitioned into one or many partitions. RDD is the core of Spark, as its distribution among various cluster nodes leverages data locality. Partitions are the units used to achieve parallelism inside the application. Repartition or coalesce transformations can help maintain the number of partitions. Data access is optimized utilizing RDD shuffling. As Spark is close to data, it sends data across various nodes through it and creates required partitions as needed. ### **DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)** Spark generates an operator graph when we enter our code into the Spark console. When an action is triggered to Spark RDD, Spark submits that graph to the DAGScheduler. It then divides those operator graphs into stages of the task inside the DAGScheduler. Every step may contain jobs based on several partitions of the incoming data. The DAGScheduler pipelines those individual operator graphs together. For instance, the map operator graphs a schedule for a single stage, and these stages are passed on to the. Task Scheduler in cluster manager for their execution. Work or Executors' task is to execute these tasks on the slave. ### Distributed processing using partitions efficiently Increasing the number of Executors on clusters also increases parallelism in processing Spark Job. However, one must have adequate information about how that data would be distributed among those executors via partitioning. RDD is helpful for this case, which has negligible traffic for data shuffling across these executors. One can customize the partitioning for pair RDD (RDD with key-value Pairs). Spark assures that a set of keys will always appear together in the same node because there is no explicit control. > Its security aids authentication through a shared secret. Spark authentication is the configuration parameter through which authentication can be configured. From the Article, [Apache Spark Security](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/apache-spark-sql/) --- ## What are the best practices? The below highlighted are the best practices: ### **ReduceByKey or groupByKey** Both groupByKey and reduceByKey produce the same answer, but the concept behind producing results is different. ReduceByKey is best suited for large datasets because Spark combines output with a shared key for each partition before shuffling data. On the other hand, groupByKey shuffles all the key-value pairs. GroupByKey causes unnecessary shuffles and transfers data over the network. ### **Maintain the required size of the shuffle blocks** By default, the Spark shuffle block cannot exceed 2GB. A better use is to increase partitions and reduce their capacity to ~128MB per partition, which will reduce the shuffle block size. We can use repetition or coalesce in regular applications. Large partitions make the process slow due to a limit of 2GB, and few partitions don't allow scaling the job and achieving parallelism. ### **File Formats and Delimiters** Choosing the right File formats for each data-related specification is a headache. One must choose wisely the data format for Ingestion types, Intermediate types, and Final output types. We can also Classify the data file formats for each type in several ways. For example, we can use the AVRO file format to store media data, as  [Avro](https://avro.apache.org/) is better optimized for binary data than Parquet. Parquet can be used to store metadata information as it is highly compressed. ### **Small Data Files** Broadcasting is a technique for loading small data files or datasets into Blocks of memory so that they can be joined with more massive data sets with less overhead of shuffling data. For Instance, we can store Small data files into n number of Blocks, and large data files can be joined to these data Blocks in the future as large data files can be distributed among these blocks in a parallel fashion. ### **No Monitoring of Job Stages** DAG is a data structure used in Spark that describes various stages of tasks in Graph format. Most developers write and execute the code, but monitoring job tasks is essential. This monitoring is best achieved by managing DAG and reducing the stages. A job with 20 steps is prolonged compared to a job with 3-4 Stages. ### **ByKey, repartition or any other operations that trigger shuffles** Most of the time, we need to avoid shuffles as much as we can as data shuffles across many, and sometimes, it becomes very complex to obtain Scalability out of those shuffles. GroupByKey can be a valuable asset, but its need must be described first. ### **Reinforcement Learning** Reinforcement Learning is the concept of obtaining a better Machine learning environment and processing decisions better. One must apply deep reinforcement learning in Spark to see if the transition and reward models are built correctly on data sets and if agents can estimate the results. > IoT technologies lower energy prices, optimize natural resource usage, clean cities and make a healthier climate. Click to explore about our, [Architecture of Data Processing in IoT](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/data-processing-in-iot) ## What are the optimization factors and techniques? One of the best features of Apache Spark optimization is that it helps with in-memory data computations. The bottleneck for these computations can be CPU, memory, or any resource in the cluster. In such cases, a need to serialize the data and reduce the memory may arise. These factors for it, if properly used, can - - Eliminate the long-running job process - Correction execution engine - Improves performance time by managing resources Below are the top 13 simple techniques for Apache Spark: ### Using Accumulators Accumulators are global variables to the executors that can only be added through an associative and commutative operation. It can, therefore, be efficient in parallel. Accumulators can implement counters (same as in  [Map Reduce](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/mapred_tutorial.html) ) or another task, such as tracking API calls. By default, Spark supports numeric accumulators, but programmers can add support for new types. Spark ensures that each task's update will only be applied once to the accumulator variables. During transformations, users should be aware of each task's update, as these can be applied more than once if job stages are re-executed. ### Hive Bucketing Performance Bucketing results with a fixed number of files as we specify the number of buckets with a bucket. Hive took the field, calculated the hash and assigned a record to that particular bucket. Bucketing is more stable when the field has high cardinality, [Large Data Processing](https://www.xenonstack.com/use-cases/large-data-processing/), and records are evenly distributed among all buckets, whereas partitioning works when the cardinality of the partitioning field is low. Bucketing reduces the overhead of sorting files. For instance, if we are joining two tables that have an equal number of buckets in them, spark joins the data directly as keys are already sorted buckets. The number of bucket files can be calculated as several partitions into several buckets. ### Predicate Pushdown Optimization Predicate pushdown is a technique to process only the required data. Predicates can be applied to SparkSQL by defining filters in where conditions. By using the explain command to query, we can check the query processing stages. If the query plan contains PushedFilter, then the query is optimized to select only the required data, as every predicate returns either True or False. If no PushedFilter is found in the query plan, it is better to cast the where condition. Predicate Pushdowns limit the number of files and partitions SparkSQL reads while querying, thus reducing disk I/O starts [In-Memory Analytics](https://www.xenonstack.com/use-cases/in-memory-analytics/). Querying on data in buckets with predicate pushdowns produces results faster with less shuffle. ### Zero Data Serialization / Deserialization using Apache Arrow Apache Arrow is used as an In-Memory run-time format for analytical query engines. It provides data serialization/deserialization zero shuffles through shared memory. Arrow flight sends large datasets over the network. Additionally, it has an arrow file format that allows zero-copy random access to data on disks. It has a standard data access layer for all spark applications. It reduces the overhead for SerDe operations for shuffling data as it has a common place where all data is residing and in an arrow-specific format. ### Garbage Collection Tuning using G1GC Collection When tuning garbage collectors, we recommend using G1 GC to run Spark applications. The G1 garbage collector handles growing heaps commonly seen with Spark. With G1, fewer options will be needed to provide higher throughput and lower latency. GC tuning needs to be mastered according to generated logs to control unpredictable characteristics and behaviours of various applications. Before this, other optimization techniques like [streaming and real-time analytics solutions must be](https://www.xenonstack.com/platform-engineering/real-time-analytics/) applied to the program’s logic and code. Most of the time, G1GC helps to optimize the pause time between processes that are quite often in Spark applications, thus decreasing the Job execution time with a more reliable system. ### Memory Management and Tuning As we know, for computations such as shuffling, sorting and so on, Execution memory is used, whereas for caching purposes, storage memory is used that also propagates internal data. There might be some cases where jobs are not using any cache; therefore, there are cases of space error during execution. Cached jobs always apply less storage space where any execution requirement cannot evict the data. In addition, a [real-time streaming application with Apache Spark](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/real-time-streaming/) can be created.   We can set spark.memory.fraction to determine how much JVM heap space is used for Spark execution memory. Commonly, 60% is the default. Executor memory must be kept as little as possible because it may delay JVM Garbage collection. This applies to small executors, as multiple tasks may run on a single JVM instance. ### Data Locality The processing tasks are optimized by placing the execution code close to the processed data, called data locality. Sometimes, processing tasks must wait before getting data because data is unavailable. However, when the time of spark.locality.wait expires, Spark tries less local level, i.e., Local to the node to rack to any. Transferring data between disks is very costly, so most of the operations must be performed at the place where data resides. It helps to load only a small but required amount of data along with **[test-driven development for Apache Spark](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/test-driven-development/).** ### Using Collocated Joins Collocated joins make decisions about redistribution and broadcasting. We can define small datasets to be located in multiple blocks of memory to achieve better use of Broadcasting. While applying joins on two datasets, spark First sorts the data of both datasets by key and merges them. However, we can also apply the sort partition key before joining them or creating those data frames in INApache Arrow Architecture. This will optimize the run-time of the query as there would be no unnecessary function calls to sort. ### Caching in Spark Caching in [Apache Spark with GPU](https://www.xenonstack.com/insights/hadoop-with-gpu) is the best technique for optimization when we need some data repeatedly. However, it is not always acceptable to cache data. We have to use cache () RDD and DataFrames in the following cases - - When there is an iterative loop, such as in Machine learning algorithms. - RDD is accessed multiple times in a single job or task. - Or the cost of generating the RDD partitions again will be higher.\ Cache () and persist (StorageLevel.MEMORY\_ONLY) can be used in place of each other. Every RDD partition evicted from the memory must be built again from the source, which is still very expensive. One of the best solutions is to use persist (Storage level.MEMORY\_AND\_DISK\_ONLY ), which would spill the partitions of RDD onto the Worker's local disk. This case only requires data from the worker's local drive, which is relatively fast. ### Executor Size When we run executors with high memory, it often results in excessive garbage collection delays. We must keep the core count per executor below five tasks. Too small executors don’t help when running multiple jobs on a single JVM. For Instance, broadcast variables must be replicated for each executor exactly once, resulting in more copies of the data. ### Spark Windowing Function A window function defines a frame through which we can calculate the input rows of a table on individual row levels. Each row can have a clear framework. Windowing allows us to define a window for data in the data frame. We can compare multiple rows in the same data frame. We can set the window time to a particular interval, which will solve the issue of data dependency with previous data. Shuffling in [Apache Beam](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/apache-beam/) is less on previously processed data as we retain that data for window interval. ### Watermarks Techniques Watermarking is a useful technique in its Optimization that constrains the system by design and helps to prevent it from exploding during the run. Watermark takes two arguments - - Column for event time and - A threshold time that specifies for how long we are required to process late data The query in [Apache Arrow Architecture](https://www.xenonstack.com/insights/what-is-apache-arrow/) will automatically get updated if data falls within that stipulated threshold; otherwise, no processing is triggered for that delayed data. One must remember that we can use complete mode side by side with watermarking because full mode first transports all the data to the resulting table. ### Data Serialization Apache Spark optimization works on data we need to process for some use cases, such as Analytics or data movement. This movement of data or analytics can be performed well if the data is in a better-serialized format. [Apache Spark supports Data serialization](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/data-serialization-hadoop/) to manage the data formats needed at the Source or Destination effectively. By default, it uses Java Serialization but also supports Kryo Serialization.   By default, Spark uses Java’s ObjectOutputStream to serialize the data. The implementation can be through the java.io.Serializable class. It encodes the objects into a stream of bytes. It provides lightweight persistence and flexibility. But it becomes slow as it leads to huge serialized formats for each class it uses. Spark supports the Kryo Serialization library (v4) for Serialization of objects nearly 10x faster than Java Serialization as it is more compact than Java. --- > The analytics performed by actuaries are critically important to an insurer’s continued profitability and stability. Click to explore about our, [Data Analytics in Insurance Industry](https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/data-analytics-in-insurance) ## Conclusion [Apache Spark](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/apache-spark), an open-source distributed computing engine, is currently the most popular framework for in-memory batch processing, which also supports real-time streaming. With its advanced query optimizer and execution engine, its Optimisation Techniques can efficiently process and analyze large datasets. 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