Converting mysql table to spark dataset is very slow compared to same from csv file

Question

I have csv file in Amazon s3 with is 62mb in size (114 000 rows). I am converting it into spark dataset, and taking first 500 rows from it. Code is as follow;

Answer 1

This problem has been covered multiple times on StackOverflow:

• How to improve performance for slow Spark jobs using DataFrame and JDBC connection?
• spark jdbc df limit... what is it doing?
• How to use JDBC source to write and read data in (Py)Spark?

and in external sources:

• https://github.com/awesome-spark/spark-gotchas/blob/master/05_spark_sql_and_dataset_api.md#parallelizing-reads

so just to reiterate - by default DataFrameReader.jdbc doesn't distribute data or reads. It uses single thread, single exectuor.

To distribute reads:

• use ranges with lowerBound / upperBound:

  Properties properties;
  Lower
  
  Dataset<Row> set = sc
      .read()
      .option("partitionColumn", "foo")
      .option("numPartitions", "3")
      .option("lowerBound", 0)
      .option("upperBound", 30)
      .option("url", url)
      .option("dbtable", this.tableName)
      .option("driver","com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")
      .format("jdbc")
      .load();
  

• predicates

  Properties properties;
  Dataset<Row> set = sc
      .read()
      .jdbc(
          url, this.tableName,
          {"foo < 10", "foo BETWWEN 10 and 20", "foo > 20"},
          properties
      )
  

Answer 2

Please follow the steps below

1.download a copy of the JDBC connector for mysql. I believe you already have one.

wget http://central.maven.org/maven2/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.38/mysql-connector-java-5.1.38.jar

2.create a db-properties.flat file in the below format

jdbcUrl=jdbc:mysql://${jdbcHostname}:${jdbcPort}/${jdbcDatabase}
user=<username>
password=<password>

3.create a empty table first where you want to load the data.

invoke spark shell with driver class

spark-shell --driver-class-path  <your path to mysql jar>

then import all the required package

import java.io.{File, FileInputStream}
import java.util.Properties
import org.apache.spark.sql.SaveMode
import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext
import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}

initiate a hive context or a sql context

val sQLContext = new HiveContext(sc)
import sQLContext.implicits._
import sQLContext.sql

set some of the properties

sQLContext.setConf("hive.exec.dynamic.partition", "true")
sQLContext.setConf("hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode", "nonstrict")

Load mysql db properties from file

val dbProperties = new Properties()
dbProperties.load(new FileInputStream(new File("your_path_to/db-        properties.flat")))
val jdbcurl = dbProperties.getProperty("jdbcUrl")

create a query to read the data from your table and pass it to read method of #sqlcontext. this is where you can manage your where clause

val df1 = "(SELECT  * FROM your_table_name) as s1" 

pass the jdbcurl, select query and db properties to read method

val df2 = sQLContext.read.jdbc(jdbcurl, df1, dbProperties)

write it to your table

df2.write.format("orc").partitionBy("your_partition_column_name").mode(SaveMode.Append).saveAsTable("your_target_table_name")