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# Word count in HDFS

## Setup

In this example, we’ll use `distributed` with the `hdfs3` library to count the number of words in text files (Enron email dataset, 6.4 GB) stored in HDFS.

Copy the text data from Amazon S3 into HDFS on the cluster:

    $ hadoop distcp s3n://AWS_SECRET_ID:AWS_SECRET_KEY@blaze-data/enron-email hdfs:///tmp/enron

where `AWS_SECRET_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_KEY` are valid AWS credentials.

Start the `distributed` scheduler and workers on the cluster.

## Code example

Import `distributed`, `hdfs3`, and other standard libraries used in this example:

    >>> import hdfs3
    >>> from collections import defaultdict, Counter
    >>> from distributed import Client, progress

Initialize a connection to HDFS, replacing `NAMENODE_HOSTNAME` and `NAMENODE_PORT` with the hostname and port (default: 8020) of the HDFS namenode.

    >>> hdfs = hdfs3.HDFileSystem('NAMENODE_HOSTNAME', port=NAMENODE_PORT)

Initialize a connection to the `distributed` client, replacing `SCHEDULER_IP` and `SCHEDULER_PORT` with the IP address and port of the `distributed` scheduler.

    >>> client = Client('SCHEDULER_IP:SCHEDULER_PORT')

Generate a list of filenames from the text data in HDFS:

    >>> filenames = hdfs.glob('/tmp/enron/*/*')
    >>> print(filenames[:5])

    ['/tmp/enron/edrm-enron-v2_nemec-g_xml.zip/merged.txt',
     '/tmp/enron/edrm-enron-v2_ring-r_xml.zip/merged.txt',
     '/tmp/enron/edrm-enron-v2_bailey-s_xml.zip/merged.txt',
     '/tmp/enron/edrm-enron-v2_fischer-m_xml.zip/merged.txt',
     '/tmp/enron/edrm-enron-v2_geaccone-t_xml.zip/merged.txt']

Print the first 1024 bytes of the first text file:

    >>> print(hdfs.head(filenames[0]))

    b'Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:33:00 -0800 (PST)\r\nFrom: Xochitl-Alexis Velasc
    o\r\nTo: Mark Knippa, Mike D Smith, Gerald Nemec, Dave S Laipple, Bo Barnwel
    l\r\nCc: Melissa Jones, Iris Waser, Pat Radford, Bonnie Shumaker\r\nSubject:
     Finalize ECS/EES Master Agreement\r\nX-SDOC: 161476\r\nX-ZLID: zl-edrm-enro
    n-v2-nemec-g-2802.eml\r\n\r\nPlease plan to attend a meeting to finalize the
     ECS/EES  Master Agreement \r\ntomorrow 11/30/00 at 1:30 pm CST.\r\n\r\nI wi
    ll email everyone tomorrow with location.\r\n\r\nDave-I will also email you
    the call in number tomorrow.\r\n\r\nThanks\r\nXochitl\r\n\r\n***********\r\n
    EDRM Enron Email Data Set has been produced in EML, PST and NSF format by ZL
     Technologies, Inc. This Data Set is licensed under a Creative Commons Attri
    bution 3.0 United States License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
    /us/> . To provide attribution, please cite to "ZL Technologies, Inc. (http:
    //www.zlti.com)."\r\n***********\r\nDate: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:40:00 -0800 (P
    ST)\r\nFrom: Jill T Zivley\r\nTo: Robert Cook, Robert Crockett, John Handley
    , Shawna'

Create a function to count words in each file:

    >>> def count_words(fn):
    ...     word_counts = defaultdict(int)
    ...     with hdfs.open(fn) as f:
    ...         for line in f:
    ...             for word in line.split():
    ...                 word_counts[word] += 1
    ...     return word_counts

Before we process all of the text files using the distributed workers, let’s test our function locally by counting the number of words in the first text file:

    >>> counts = count_words(filenames[0])
    >>> print(sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda k_v: k_v[1], reverse=True)[:10])

    [(b'the', 144873),
     (b'of', 98122),
     (b'to', 97202),
     (b'and', 90575),
     (b'or', 60305),
     (b'in', 53869),
     (b'a', 43300),
     (b'any', 31632),
     (b'by', 31515),
     (b'is', 30055)]

We can perform the same operation of counting the words in the first text file, except we will use `client.submit` to execute the computation on a `distributed` worker:

    >>> future = client.submit(count_words, filenames[0])
    >>> counts = future.result()
    >>> print(sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda k_v: k_v[1], reverse=True)[:10])

    [(b'the', 144873),
     (b'of', 98122),
     (b'to', 97202),
     (b'and', 90575),
     (b'or', 60305),
     (b'in', 53869),
     (b'a', 43300),
     (b'any', 31632),
     (b'by', 31515),
     (b'is', 30055)]

We are ready to count the number of words in all of the text files using `distributed` workers. Note that the `map` operation is non-blocking, and you can continue to work in the Python shell/notebook while the computations are running.

    >>> futures = client.map(count_words, filenames)

We can check the status of some `futures` while all of the text files are being processed:

    >>> len(futures)

    161

    >>> futures[:5]

    [<Future: status: finished, key: count_words-5114ab5911de1b071295999c9049e941>,
     <Future: status: pending, key: count_words-d9e0d9daf6a1eab4ca1f26033d2714e7>,
     <Future: status: pending, key: count_words-d2f365a2360a075519713e9380af45c5>,
     <Future: status: pending, key: count_words-bae65a245042325b4c77fc8dde1acf1e>,
     <Future: status: pending, key: count_words-03e82a9b707c7e36eab95f4feec1b173>]

    >>> progress(futures)

    [########################################] | 100% Completed |  3min  0.2s

When the `futures` finish reading in all of the text files and counting words, the results will exist on each worker. This operation required about 3 minutes to run on a cluster with three worker machines, each with 4 cores and 16 GB RAM.

Note that because the previous computation is bound by the GIL in Python, we can speed it up by starting the `distributed` workers with the `--nprocs 4` option.

To sum the word counts for all of the text files, we need to gather some information from the `distributed` workers. To reduce the amount of data that we gather from the workers, we can define a function that only returns the top 10,000 words from each text file.

    >>> def top_items(d):
    ...     items = sorted(d.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse=True)[:10000]
    ...     return dict(items)

We can then `map` the futures from the previous step to this culling function. This is a convenient way to construct a pipeline of computations using futures:

    >>> futures2 = client.map(top_items, futures)

We can `gather` the resulting culled word count data for each text file to the local process:

    >>> results = client.gather(iter(futures2))

To sum the word counts for all of the text files, we can iterate over the results in `futures2` and update a local dictionary that contains all of the word counts.

    >>> all_counts = Counter()
    >>> for result in results:
    ...     all_counts.update(result)

Finally, we print the total number of words in the results and the words with the highest frequency from all of the text files:

    >>> print(len(all_counts))

    8797842

    >>> print(sorted(all_counts.items(), key=lambda k_v: k_v[1], reverse=True)[:10])

    [(b'0', 67218380),
     (b'the', 19586868),
     (b'-', 14123768),
     (b'to', 11893464),
     (b'N/A', 11814665),
     (b'of', 11724827),
     (b'and', 10253753),
     (b'in', 6684937),
     (b'a', 5470371),
     (b'or', 5227805)]

The complete Python script for this example is shown below:

    # word-count.py

    import hdfs3
    from collections import defaultdict, Counter
    from distributed import Client, progress

    hdfs = hdfs3.HDFileSystem('NAMENODE_HOSTNAME', port=NAMENODE_PORT)
    client = Client('SCHEDULER_IP:SCHEDULER:PORT')

    filenames = hdfs.glob('/tmp/enron/*/*')
    print(filenames[:5])
    print(hdfs.head(filenames[0]))

    def count_words(fn):
        word_counts = defaultdict(int)
        with hdfs.open(fn) as f:
            for line in f:
                for word in line.split():
                    word_counts[word] += 1
        return word_counts

    counts = count_words(filenames[0])
    print(sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda k_v: k_v[1], reverse=True)[:10])

    future = client.submit(count_words, filenames[0])
    counts = future.result()
    print(sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda k_v: k_v[1], reverse=True)[:10])

    futures = client.map(count_words, filenames)
    len(futures)
    futures[:5]
    progress(futures)

    def top_items(d):
        items = sorted(d.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse=True)[:10000]
        return dict(items)

    futures2 = client.map(top_items, futures)
    results = client.gather(iter(futures2))

    all_counts = Counter()
    for result in results:
        all_counts.update(result)

    print(len(all_counts))

    print(sorted(all_counts.items(), key=lambda k_v: k_v[1], reverse=True)[:10])