Comparative Study of Apache Spark MLlib Clustering Algorithms

Clustering of big data has received much attention recently. Analytics algorithms on big datasets require tremendous computational capabilities. Apache Spark is a popular open- source platform for large-scale data processing that is well-suited for iterative machine learning tasks. This paper presents an overview of Apache Spark Machine Learning Library (Spark.MLlib) algorithms. The clustering methods consist of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), Power-Iteration Clustering method, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), and k-means are completely described. In this paper, three benchmark datasets include Forest Cover Type, KDD Cup 99 and Internet Advertisements used for experiments. The same algorithms that can be compared with each other, compared. For a better understanding of the results of the experiments, the algorithms are described with suitable tables and graphs.