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Top 23 Scala Big Data Projects
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aws documentation — Deequ allows you to calculate data quality metrics on your dataset, define and verify data quality constraints, and be informed about changes in the data distribution. Instead of implementing checks and verification algorithms on your own, you can focus on describing how your data should look. Deequ supports you by suggesting checks for you. Deequ is implemented on top of Apache Spark and is designed to scale with large datasets (think billions of rows) that typically live in a distributed filesystem or a data warehouse.
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Dockerized kafka manager (Yahoo CMAK)
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SonarLint
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delta
An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs (by delta-io)
FACT table (sale $, order quantity, order ID, product ID)
customer, account_types etc are dimensions to filter your low-level transactional data. The schema like a snowflake when you add enough dimensions, hence the name.
The FACT table makes "measures" available to the user. Example: Count of Orders. These are based on the values in the FACT table (your big table of IDs that link to dimensions and low-level transactional data).
You can then slice and dice your count of orders by fields in the dimensions.
You could then add Sum of Sale ($) as an additional measure. "Abstract" measures like Average Sale ($) per Order can also be added in the OLTP backend engine.
End users will often be using Excel or Tableau to create their own dashboards / graphs / reports. This pattern makes sense in that case --> user can explore the heavily structured business data according to all the pre-existing business rules.
Pros:
- Great for enterprise businesses with existing application databases
- Highly structured and transaction support (ACID compliance)
- Ease of use for end business user (create a new pivot table in Excel)
- Easy to query (basically a bunch of SQL queries)
- Encapsulates all your business rules in one place -- a.k.a. single source of truth.
Cons
- Massive start up cost (have to work out the schema before you even write any code)
- Slow to change (imagine if the raw transaction amounts suddenly changed to £ after a certain date!)
- Massive nightly ETL jobs (these break fairly often)
- Usually proprietary tooling / storage (think MS SQL Server)
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2. Data Lake
Throw everything into an S3 bucket. Database table? Throw it into the S3 bucket. Image data? Throw it into the S3 bucket. Kitchen sink? Throw it into the S3 bucket.
Process your data when you're ready to process it. Read in your data from S3, process it, write back to S3 as an "output file" for downstream consumption.
Pros:
- Easy to set up
- Fairly simple and standardised i/o (S3 apis work with pandas and pyspark dataframes etc)
- Can store data remotely until ready to process it
- Highly flexible as mostly unstructured (create new S3 keys -- a.k.a. directories -- on the fly )
- Cheap storage
Cons:
- Doesn't scale -- turns into a "data swamp"
- Not always ACID compliant (looking at you Digital Ocean)
- Very easy to duplicate data
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3. Data Lakehouse
Essentially a data lake with some additional bits.
A. Delta Lake Storage Format a.k.a. Delta Tables
Versioned files acting like versioned tables. Writing to a file will create a new version of the file, with previous versions stored for a set number of updates. Appending to the file creates a new version of the file in the same way (e.g. add a new order streamed in from the ordering application).
Every file -- a.k.a. delta table -- becomes ACID compliant. You can rollback the table to last week and replay e.g. because change X caused bug Y to happen.
AWS does allow you do this, but it was a right ol' pain in the arse whenever I had to deal with massively partitioned parquet files. Delta Lake makes versioning the outputs much easier and it is much easier to rollback.
B. Data Storage Layout
Enforce a schema based on processing stages to get some performance & data governance benefits.
Example processing stage schema: DATA IN -> EXTRACT -> TRANSFORM -> AGGREGATE -> REPORTABLE
Or the "medallion" schema: Bronze -> Silver -> Gold.
Write out the data at each processing stage to a delta lake table/file. You can now query 5x data sources instead of 2x. The table's rarity indicates the degree of "data enrichment" you have performed -- i.e. how useful have you made the data. Want to update the codebase for the AGGREGATE stage? Just rerun from the TRANSFORM table (rather than run it all from scratch). This also acts as a caching layer. In a Data Warehouse, the entire query needs to be run from scratch each time you change a field. Here, you could just deliver the REPORTABLE tables as artefacts whenever you change them.
C. "Metadata" Tracking
See AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Index files that match a specific S3 key pattern and/or file format and/or AWS S3 tag etc. throughout your S3 bucket. Store the results in a publicly accessible table. Now you can perform SQL queries against the metadata of your data. Want to find that file you were working on last week? Run a query based on last modified time. Want to find files that contain a specific column name? Run a query based on column names.
Pros:
- transactional versioning -- ACID compliance and the ability to rollback data over time (I accidentally deleted an entire column of data / calculated VAT wrong yesterday)
- processing-stage schema storage layout acts as a caching layer (only process from the stage where you need to)
- no need for humans to remember the specific path to the files they were working on as files are all indexed
- less chance of creating a "data swamp"
- changes become easier to audit as you can track the changes between versions
Cons:
- Delta lake table format is only really available with Apache Spark / Databricks processing engines (mostly, for now)
- Requires enforcement of the processing-stage schema (your data scientists will just ignore you when you request they start using it)
- More setup cost than a simple data lake
- Basically a move back towards proprietary tooling (some FOSS libs are starting to pop up for it)
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4. Data Mesh
geoduck14's answer on this was pretty good. basically have a data infrastructure team, and them domain-specific teams that spring up as needed (like an infra team looking after your k8s clusters, and application teams that use the clusters). domain specific data team use the data platform provided by the data infrastructure team.
Previously worked somewhere in a "product" team which basically performed this function. They just didn't call it a "data mesh".
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b) There are libraries around e.g. Microsoft SynapseML, LinkedIn Photon ML
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Project mention: For the DE's that choose Java over Python in new projects, why? | reddit.com/r/dataengineering | 2022-06-02
I doubt it is possible because I suspect that GIL would like a word. So I could spend nights trying to make it work in Python (and possibly, if not likely, fail). Or I could just use this ready made solution.
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InfluxDB
Build time-series-based applications quickly and at scale.. InfluxDB is the Time Series Data Platform where developers build real-time applications for analytics, IoT and cloud-native services in less time with less code.
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Reactive-kafka
Alpakka Kafka connector - Alpakka is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Akka.
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adam
ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.
We presented using Parquet formats for bioinformatics 2012/13-ish at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) and got laughed out of the place.
While using Apache Spark for bioinformatics [0] never really took off, I still think Parquet formats for bioinformatics [1] is a good idea, especially with DuckDB, Apache Arrow, etc. supporting Parquet out of the box.
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nussknacker
A visual tool to define and run real-time decision algorithms. Brings agility to business teams, liberates developers to focus on technology.
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Clustering4Ever
C4E, a JVM friendly library written in Scala for both local and distributed (Spark) Clustering.
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qbeast-spark
Qbeast-spark: DataSource enabling multi-dimensional indexing and efficient data sampling. Big Data, free from the unnecessary!
Project mention: Collaborative roadmap for qbeast-spark: Open Source Table Format | reddit.com/r/apachespark | 2022-06-07We want to develop qbeast-spark in an open way, so we publish a tentative Roadmap for this summer https://github.com/Qbeast-io/qbeast-spark/discussions/108
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Schemer
Schema registry for CSV, TSV, JSON, AVRO and Parquet schema. Supports schema inference and GraphQL API.
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Spark Utils
Basic framework utilities to quickly start writing production ready Apache Spark applications
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2022-11-24.
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- 5 Reasons Your Data Lakehouse should Embrace Dremio Cloud
- Delta 2.0 - The Foundation of your Data Lakehouse is Open
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Big Data projects in Scala? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Apache Spark | 34,423 |
| 2 | kafka-manager | 11,120 |
| 3 | delta | 5,433 |
| 4 | SynapseML | 3,843 |
| 5 | Scalding | 3,385 |
| 6 | Scio | 2,397 |
| 7 | Jupyter Scala | 1,463 |
| 8 | Reactive-kafka | 1,391 |
| 9 | adam | 936 |
| 10 | BIDMach | 912 |
| 11 | Gearpump | 763 |
| 12 | Vegas | 724 |
| 13 | metorikku | 526 |
| 14 | Sparkta | 523 |
| 15 | Scoobi | 484 |
| 16 | spark-rapids | 478 |
| 17 | nussknacker | 340 |
| 18 | Clustering4Ever | 124 |
| 19 | qbeast-spark | 117 |
| 20 | Schemer | 110 |
| 21 | Scoozie | 81 |
| 22 | spark-deployer | 76 |
| 23 | Spark Utils | 30 |
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