One of the analysis I am looking to do with my ODROID XU4 cluster is to take a look at various access patterns on my website by analyzing the Apache http access logs. Analyzing Apache access logs directly in Spark can be slow due to them being unstructured text logs. Converting to the logs to a data frame backed by partitioned parquet files can make subsequent analysis much faster. The first task is to create a mapper that can be used in Spark convert a row int eh access log to a Spark Row object. A Python 3 mapper would look like: # Parse an Apache access log. Assumes Python 3 import re from pyspark.sql import Row from datetime import datetime APACHE_ACCESS_LOG_PATTERN = ‘^(\S+) (\S+) (\S+) \[([\w:/]+\s[+\-]\d{4})\] “(\S+) (\S+) (\S+)” (\d{3}) (\d+) “((?:[^”]|”)+)” “((?:[^”]|”)+)”$’ DATETIME_PARSE_PATTERN = ‘%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z’ # Returns a Row containing the Apache Access Log info def parse_apache_log_line(logline): match = re.search(APACHE_ACCESS_LOG_PATTERN, logline) if match is None: return None Read More …