Load Data using Apache-Spark on AWS

Question

I am using Apache-Spark on Amazon Web Service (AWS)-EC2 to load and process data. I\'ve created one master and two slave nodes. On the master node, I have a directory data

Answer 1

Just to clarify for others that may come across this post.

I believe your confusion is due to not providing a protocol in the file location. When you do the following line:

### Create a RDD containing metadata about files in directory "data"
datafile = sc.wholeTextFiles("/root/data")  ### Read data directory 

Spark assumes the file path /root/data is in HDFS. In other words it looks for the files at hdfs:///root/data.

You only need the files in one location, either locally on every node (not the most efficient in terms of storage) or in HDFS that is distributed across the nodes.

If you wish to read files from local, use file:///path/to/local/file. If you wish to use HDFS use hdfs:///path/to/hdfs/file.

Hope this helps.