（RDD）Accumulators 计数器

1）说明

    Accumulators are variables that are only “added” to through an associative and commutative operation and can therefore be efficiently supported in parallel. They can be used to implement counters (as in MapReduce) or sums. Spark natively supports accumulators of numeric types, and programmers can add support for new types.

    计数器是一个变量，仅仅允许增加，不能减少。

2）用法  

scala> val accum = sc.longAccumulator("My Accumulator")
accum: org.apache.spark.util.LongAccumulator = LongAccumulator(id: 0, name: Some(My Accumulator), value: 0)

scala> sc.parallelize(Array(1, 2, 3, 4)).foreach(x => accum.add(x))
...
10/09/29 18:41:08 INFO SparkContext: Tasks finished in 0.317106 s

scala> accum.value
res2: Long = 10

3）界面UI

 

4）自定义计数器

    While this code used the built-in support for accumulators of type Long, programmers can also create their own types by subclassing AccumulatorV2. The AccumulatorV2 abstract class has several methods which one has to override: reset for resetting the accumulator to zero, add for adding another value into the accumulator, merge for merging another same-type accumulator into this one. Other methods that must be overridden are contained in the API documentation. For example, supposing we had a MyVector class representing mathematical vectors, we could write:    （V2版本）

class VectorAccumulatorV2 extends AccumulatorV2[MyVector, MyVector] {

  private val myVector: MyVector = MyVector.createZeroVector

  def reset(): Unit = {
    myVector.reset()
  }

  def add(v: MyVector): Unit = {
    myVector.add(v)
  }
  ...
}

// Then, create an Accumulator of this type:
val myVectorAcc = new VectorAccumulatorV2
// Then, register it into spark context:
sc.register(myVectorAcc, "MyVectorAcc1")