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Introduction to Big Data · Quiz 2 · 3 Dec 2023 · September 2023 term

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A website sees 1 Billion hits every month. The website owner wants to count average hits per customer in the latest month, where a customer is denoted by the IP address of the device. The owner has at his disposal a Hadoop cluster of 5 workers and 2 masters each with 1GB of RAM. Which of the following methods is the most likely to finish fastest?

  1. A

    Write a Spark program that forms a Dataframe as grouping by IP address with count as aggregate, followed by another stage that computes the avg on top of the Dataframe of the first stage

  2. B

    Write a MapReduce program where the Map does nothing useful, Combine computes the aggregated hits per customer, Shuffle combined data based on IP address across workers, and in the Reduce, build hash table on each machine with hash key = IP address and hash value = counter, followed by another Reduce that finally computes the avg on top of all hash values.

  3. C

    Write a Spark program that forms a Dataframe as grouping by IP address with count as aggregate, followed by a take into a list in the Spark driver which further computes the average of all the individual counts in the list

  4. D

    Write a MapReduce program where the Map does nothing useful, Shuffle data based on IP address across workers, and in the Reduce, build hash table on each machine with hash key = IP address and hash value = counter, followed by another Reduce that finally computes avg on top of all hash values.

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  • A

    Write a Spark program that forms a Dataframe as grouping by IP address with count as aggregate, followed by another stage that computes the avg on top of the Dataframe of the first stage

Question 5 of 26 in the IIT Madras BS Introduction to Big Data (Intro to Big Data) Quiz 2 paper sat on 3 Dec 2023, in the September 2023 term (IIT M DEGREE AN2 EXAM QDB2 03 Dec 2023). It carries 1 mark.

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