AWS EMR - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyarrow'

Question

I am running into this problem w/ Apache Arrow Spark Integration.

Using AWS EMR w/ Spark 2.4.3

Tested this problem on both local spark single machine instanc

Answer 1

In EMR python3 is not resolved by default. You have to make it explicit. One way to do it is to pass a config.json file as you're creating the cluster. It's available in the Edit software settings section in AWS EMR UI. A sample json file looks something like this.

[
  {
    "Classification": "spark-env",
    "Configurations": [
      {
        "Classification": "export",
        "Properties": {
          "PYSPARK_PYTHON": "/usr/bin/python3"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "Classification": "yarn-env",
    "Properties": {},
    "Configurations": [
      {
        "Classification": "export",
        "Properties": {
          "PYSPARK_PYTHON": "/usr/bin/python3"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]

Also you need to have the pyarrow module installed in all core nodes, not only in the master. For that you can use a bootstrap script while creating the cluster in AWS. Again, a sample bootstrap script can be as simple as something like this:

#!/bin/bash
sudo python3 -m pip install pyarrow==0.13.0