NebulaGraph Spark Connector

NebulaGraph Spark Connector is a Spark connector application for reading and writing NebulaGraph data in Spark standard format. NebulaGraph Spark Connector consists of two parts: Reader and Writer.

• Reader

  Provides a Spark SQL interface. This interface can be used to read NebulaGraph data. It reads one vertex or edge type data at a time and assemble the result into a Spark DataFrame.

• Writer

  Provides a Spark SQL interface. This interface can be used to write DataFrames into NebulaGraph in a row-by-row or batch-import way.

For more information, see NebulaGraph Spark Connector.

Version compatibility

The correspondence between the NebulaGraph Spark Connector version, the NebulaGraph core version and the Spark version is as follows.

Spark Connector version	NebulaGraph version	Spark version
nebula-spark-connector_3.0-3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar	nightly	3.x
nebula-spark-connector_2.2-3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar	nightly	2.2.x
nebula-spark-connector-3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar	nightly	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector_3.0-3.8.0.jar	3.x	3.x
nebula-spark-connector_2.2-3.8.0.jar	3.x	2.2.x
nebula-spark-connector-3.8.0.jar	3.x	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector_3.0-3.6.0.jar	3.x	3.x
nebula-spark-connector_2.2-3.6.0.jar	3.x	2.2.x
nebula-spark-connector-3.6.0.jar	3.x	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector_2.2-3.4.0.jar	3.x	2.2.x
nebula-spark-connector-3.4.0.jar	3.x	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector_2.2-3.3.0.jar	3.x	2.2.x
nebula-spark-connector-3.3.0.jar	3.x	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-3.0.0.jar	3.x	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-2.6.1.jar	2.6.0, 2.6.1	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-2.6.0.jar	2.6.0, 2.6.1	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-2.5.1.jar	2.5.0, 2.5.1	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-2.5.0.jar	2.5.0, 2.5.1	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-2.1.0.jar	2.0.0, 2.0.1	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-2.0.1.jar	2.0.0, 2.0.1	2.4.x
nebula-spark-connector-2.0.0.jar	2.0.0, 2.0.1	2.4.x

Use cases

NebulaGraph Spark Connector applies to the following scenarios:

• Read data from NebulaGraph for analysis and computation.
• Write data back to NebulaGraph after analysis and computation.
• Migrate the data of NebulaGraph.
• Graph computing with NebulaGraph Algorithm.

Benefits

The features of NebulaGraph Spark Connector 3.8.0 are as follows:

• Supports multiple connection settings, such as timeout period, number of connection retries, number of execution retries, etc.

• Supports multiple settings for data writing, such as setting the corresponding column as vertex ID, starting vertex ID, destination vertex ID or attributes.

• Supports non-attribute reading and full attribute reading.

• Supports reading NebulaGraph data into VertexRDD and EdgeRDD, and supports non-Long vertex IDs.

• Unifies the extended data source of SparkSQL, and uses DataSourceV2 to extend NebulaGraph data.

• Three write modes, insert, update and delete, are supported. insert mode will insert (overwrite) data, update mode will only update existing data, and delete mode will only delete data.

Release note

Release

Get NebulaGraph Spark Connector

Compile and package

1. Clone repository nebula-spark-connector.

   $ git clone -b release-3.8 https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula-spark-connector.git
   

2. Enter the nebula-spark-connector directory.

3. Compile and package. The procedure varies with Spark versions.

Note

Spark of the corresponding version has been installed.

- Spark 2.4

```bash
$ mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dgpg.skip -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -pl nebula-spark-connector -am -Pscala-2.11 -Pspark-2.4
```

- Spark 2.2

```bash
$ mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dgpg.skip -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -pl nebula-spark-connector_2.2 -am -Pscala-2.11 -Pspark-2.2
```

- Spark 3.x

```bash
$ mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dgpg.skip -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -pl nebula-spark-connector_3.0 -am -Pscala-2.12 -Pspark-3.0
```

After compilation, a file similar to nebula-spark-connector-3.8.0-SHANPSHOT.jar is generated in the directory target of the folder.

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How to use

When using NebulaGraph Spark Connector to reading and writing NebulaGraph data, You can refer to the following code.

# Read vertex and edge data from NebulaGraph.
spark.read.nebula().loadVerticesToDF()
spark.read.nebula().loadEdgesToDF()

# Write dataframe data into NebulaGraph as vertex and edges.
dataframe.write.nebula().writeVertices()
dataframe.write.nebula().writeEdges()

nebula() receives two configuration parameters, including connection configuration and read-write configuration.

Note

If the value of the properties contains Chinese characters, the encoding error may appear. Please add the following options when submitting the Spark task:

--conf spark.driver.extraJavaOptions=-Dfile.encoding=utf-8
--conf spark.executor.extraJavaOptions=-Dfile.encoding=utf-8

Reading data from NebulaGraph

val config = NebulaConnectionConfig
  .builder()
  .withMetaAddress("127.0.0.1:9559")
  .withConenctionRetry(2)
  .withExecuteRetry(2)
  .withTimeout(6000)
  .build()

val nebulaReadVertexConfig: ReadNebulaConfig = ReadNebulaConfig
  .builder()
  .withUser("root")
  .withPasswd("nebula")
  .withSpace("test")
  .withLabel("person")
  .withNoColumn(false)
  .withReturnCols(List("birthday"))
  .withLimit(10)
  .withPartitionNum(10)
  .build()
val vertex = spark.read.nebula(config, nebulaReadVertexConfig).loadVerticesToDF()

val nebulaReadEdgeConfig: ReadNebulaConfig = ReadNebulaConfig
  .builder()
  .withUser("root")
  .withPasswd("nebula")
  .withSpace("test")
  .withLabel("knows")
  .withNoColumn(false)
  .withReturnCols(List("degree"))
  .withLimit(10)
  .withPartitionNum(10)
  .build()
val edge = spark.read.nebula(config, nebulaReadEdgeConfig).loadEdgesToDF()

• NebulaConnectionConfig is the configuration for connecting to NebulaGraph, as described below.

  Parameter	Required	Description
  withMetaAddress	Yes	Specifies the IP addresses and ports of all Meta Services. Separate multiple addresses with commas. The format is ip1:port1,ip2:port2,.... Read data is no need to configure withGraphAddress.
  withConnectionRetry	No	The number of retries that the NebulaGraph Java Client connected to NebulaGraph. The default value is 1.
  withExecuteRetry	No	The number of retries that the NebulaGraph Java Client executed query statements. The default value is 1.
  withTimeout	No	The timeout for the NebulaGraph Java Client request response. The default value is 6000, Unit: ms.

• ReadNebulaConfig is the configuration to read NebulaGraph data, as described below.

  Parameter	Required	Description
  withUser	No	NebulaGraph username. This parameter is required when the Storage services require authentication. This parameter is only supported in NebulaGraph Enterprise Edition.
  withPasswd	No	The password for the NebulaGraph username. This parameter is required when the Storage services require authentication. This parameter is only supported in NebulaGraph Enterprise Edition.
  withSpace	Yes	NebulaGraph space name.
  withLabel	Yes	The Tag or Edge type name within the NebulaGraph space.
  withNoColumn	No	Whether the property is not read. The default value is false, read property. If the value is true, the property is not read, the withReturnCols configuration is invalid.
  withReturnCols	No	Configures the set of properties for vertex or edges to read. the format is List(property1,property2,...), The default value is List(), indicating that all properties are read.
  withLimit	No	Configure the number of rows of data read from the server by the NebulaGraph Java Storage Client at a time. The default value is 1000.
  withPartitionNum	No	Configures the number of Spark partitions to read the NebulaGraph data. The default value is 100. This value should not exceed the number of slices in the graph space (partition_num).

Write data into NebulaGraph

Note

The values of columns in a dataframe are automatically written to NebulaGraph as property values.

val config = NebulaConnectionConfig
  .builder()
  .withMetaAddress("127.0.0.1:9559")
  .withGraphAddress("127.0.0.1:9669")
  .withConenctionRetry(2)
  .build()

val nebulaWriteVertexConfig: WriteNebulaVertexConfig = WriteNebulaVertexConfig      
  .builder()
  .withSpace("test")
  .withTag("person")
  .withVidField("id")
  .withVidPolicy("hash")
  .withVidAsProp(true)
  .withUser("root")
  .withPasswd("nebula")
  .withBatch(1000)
  .build()    
df.write.nebula(config, nebulaWriteVertexConfig).writeVertices()

val nebulaWriteEdgeConfig: WriteNebulaEdgeConfig = WriteNebulaEdgeConfig      
  .builder()
  .withSpace("test")
  .withEdge("friend")
  .withSrcIdField("src")
  .withSrcPolicy(null)
  .withDstIdField("dst")
  .withDstPolicy(null)
  .withRankField("degree")
  .withSrcAsProperty(true)
  .withDstAsProperty(true)
  .withRankAsProperty(true)
  .withUser("root")
  .withPasswd("nebula")
  .withBatch(1000)
  .build()
df.write.nebula(config, nebulaWriteEdgeConfig).writeEdges()

The default write mode is insert, which can be changed to update or delete via withWriteMode configuration:

val config = NebulaConnectionConfig
  .builder()
  .withMetaAddress("127.0.0.1:9559")
  .withGraphAddress("127.0.0.1:9669")
  .build()
val nebulaWriteVertexConfig = WriteNebulaVertexConfig
  .builder()
  .withSpace("test")
  .withTag("person")
  .withVidField("id")
  .withVidAsProp(true)
  .withBatch(1000)
  .withWriteMode(WriteMode.UPDATE)
  .build()
df.write.nebula(config, nebulaWriteVertexConfig).writeVertices()

• NebulaConnectionConfig is the configuration for connecting to the nebula graph, as described below.

  Parameter	Required	Description
  withMetaAddress	Yes	Specifies the IP addresses and ports of all Meta Services. Separate multiple addresses with commas. The format is ip1:port1,ip2:port2,....
  withGraphAddress	Yes	Specifies the IP addresses and ports of Graph Services. Separate multiple addresses with commas. The format is ip1:port1,ip2:port2,....
  withConnectionRetry	No	Number of retries that the NebulaGraph Java Client connected to NebulaGraph. The default value is 1.

• WriteNebulaVertexConfig is the configuration of the write vertex, as described below.

  Parameter	Required	Description
  withSpace	Yes	NebulaGraph space name.
  withTag	Yes	The Tag name that needs to be associated when a vertex is written.
  withVidField	Yes	The column in the DataFrame as the vertex ID.
  withVidPolicy	No	When writing the vertex ID, NebulaGraph use mapping function, supports HASH only. No mapping is performed by default.
  withVidAsProp	No	Whether the column in the DataFrame that is the vertex ID is also written as an property. The default value is false. If set to true, make sure the Tag has the same property name as VidField.
  withUser	No	NebulaGraph username. If authentication is disabled, you do not need to configure the username and password.
  withPasswd	No	The password for the NebulaGraph username.
  withBatch	Yes	The number of rows of data written at a time. The default value is 1000.
  withWriteMode	No	Write mode. The optional values are insert, update and delete. The default value is insert.
  withDeleteEdge	No	Whether to delete the related edges synchronously when deleting a vertex. The default value is false. It takes effect when withWriteMode is delete.

• WriteNebulaEdgeConfig is the configuration of the write edge, as described below.

  Parameter	Required	Description
  withSpace	Yes	NebulaGraph space name.
  withEdge	Yes	The Edge type name that needs to be associated when a edge is written.
  withSrcIdField	Yes	The column in the DataFrame as the vertex ID.
  withSrcPolicy	No	When writing the starting vertex ID, NebulaGraph use mapping function, supports HASH only. No mapping is performed by default.
  withDstIdField	Yes	The column in the DataFrame that serves as the destination vertex.
  withDstPolicy	No	When writing the destination vertex ID, NebulaGraph use mapping function, supports HASH only. No mapping is performed by default.
  withRankField	No	The column in the DataFrame as the rank. Rank is not written by default.
  withSrcAsProperty	No	Whether the column in the DataFrame that is the starting vertex is also written as an property. The default value is false. If set to true, make sure Edge type has the same property name as SrcIdField.
  withDstAsProperty	No	Whether column that are destination vertex in the DataFrame are also written as property. The default value is false. If set to true, make sure Edge type has the same property name as DstIdField.
  withRankAsProperty	No	Whether column in the DataFrame that is the rank is also written as property.The default value is false. If set to true, make sure Edge type has the same property name as RankField.
  withUser	No	NebulaGraph username. If authentication is disabled, you do not need to configure the username and password.
  withPasswd	No	The password for the NebulaGraph username.
  withBatch	Yes	The number of rows of data written at a time. The default value is 1000.
  withWriteMode	No	Write mode. The optional values are insert, update and delete. The default value is insert.

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Last update: April 28, 2024