Spark Modularized View enables users to build enterprise scale applications on Apache Spark platform.

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We avidly recommend using Docker to install SMV. Using Docker, start an SMV container with

docker run -it --rm tresamigos/smv

If Docker is not an option on your system, see the installation guide.

SMV provides a shell script to easily create template applications. We will use a simple example app to explore SMV.

$ smv-init -s MyApp

Run the entire application with

$ smv-pyrun --run-app

This command must be run from the root of the project.

The output csv file and schema can be found in the data/output directory. Note that 'XXXXXXXX' here substitutes for a number which is like the version of the module.

$ cat data/output/stage1.employment.EmploymentByState_XXXXXXXX.csv/part-* | head -5
"50",245058
"51",2933665
"53",2310426
"54",531834
"55",2325877

$ cat data/output/stage1.employment.EmploymentByState_XXXXXXXX.schema/part-*
@delimiter = ,
@has-header = false
@quote-char = "
ST: String[,_SmvStrNull_]
EMP: Long

The EmploymentByState module is defined in src/python/stage1/employment.py:

class EmploymentByState(SmvModule, SmvOutput):
    """Python ETL Example: employment by state"""

    def requiresDS(self):
        return [inputdata.Employment]

    def run(self, i):
        df = i[inputdata.Employment]
        df1 = df.groupBy(col("ST")).agg(sum(col("EMP")).alias("EMP"))
        return df1

The run method of a module defines the operations needed to get the output based on the input. We would like to filter the table based on if each row's state is greater or less than 1,000,000. To accomplish this, we need to add a filter to the run method:

  def run(self, i):
      df = i[inputdata.Employment]
      df1 = df.groupBy(col("ST")).agg(sum(col("EMP")).alias("EMP"))
      df2 = df1.filter((col("EMP") > lit(1000000)))
      return df2

Now remove the old output and run the module again with

smv-pyrun --purge-old-output --run-app

(make sure you run this from the from the root of the project)

Inspect the new output to see the changes.

$ cat data/output/stage1.employment.EmploymentByState_XXXXXXXX.csv/part-* | head -5
"51",2933665
"53",2310426
"55",2325877
"01",1501148
"04",2027240

$ cat data/output/stage1.employment.EmploymentByState_XXXXXXXX.schema/part-*
@delimiter = ,
@has-header = false
@quote-char = "
ST: String[,_SmvStrNull_]
EMP: Long

If you would like to publish your module to a hive table, add a tableName method to EmploymentByState. It should return the name of the Hive table as a string.

class EmploymentByState(SmvModule, SmvOutput):
    ...
    def tableName(self):
        return "myTableName"
    def requiresDS(self): ...
    def run(self, i): ...

Then use

$ smv-pyrun --publish-hive -m stage1.employment.EmploymentByState

We can also view the results in the smv-pyshell. To start the shell, run

$ smv-pyshell

To get the DataFrame of EmploymentByState,

>>> x = df('stage1.employment.EmploymentByState')

To peek at the first row of results,

>>> x.peek(1)
ST:String            = 50
EMP:Long             = 245058
cat_high_emp:Boolean = false

See the user guide for further examples and documentation.

Please see SMV Development Best Practices.