Using Apache Spark to Query a Remote Authenticated MongoDB Server

1. Download and Extract Spark

$ wget http://apache.spinellicreations.com/spark/spark-2.4.0/spark-2.4.0-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz
$ tar -xf spark-2.4.0-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz
$ cd spark-2.4.0-bin-hadoop2.7

Create a spark-defaults.conf file by copying spark-defaults.conf.template in conf/.

Add the below line to the conf file.

spark.debug.maxToStringFields=1000

2. Connect to Mongo via a Remote Server

We use the MongoDB Spark Connector.

First, make sure the Mongo instance in the remote server has the bindIp set to the appropriate value and the correct local IP (not just localhost). Use the authentication root and password below to indicate the credentials of your authenticated Mongo database. 192.168.1.32 is your remote server's private IP (i.e., the server where Mongo is running). We are reading the oplog.rs collection in the local database. Change these accordingly. Similarly, we are writing the outputs to the database, sparkoutput. 

spark-2.4.0-bin-hadoop2.7]$ ./bin/pyspark --conf "spark.mongodb.input.uri=mongodb://root:password@192.168.1.32:27017/local.oplog.rs?readPreference=primaryPreferred" --conf "spark.mongodb.output.uri=mongodb://root:password@192.168.1.32:27017/sparkoutput" --packages org.mongodb.spark:mongo-spark-connector_2.11:2.4.0

Python 2.7.5 (default, Oct 30 2018, 23:45:53)

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org.mongodb.spark#mongo-spark-connector_2.11 added as a dependency

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org.mongodb#mongo-java-driver;3.9.0 from central in [default]

org.mongodb.spark#mongo-spark-connector_2.11;2.4.0 from central in [default]

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Set the default log level to "WARN".

To adjust logging level, use sc.setLogLevel(newLevel). For SparkR, use setLogLevel(newLevel).

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Using Python version 2.7.5 (default, Oct 30 2018 23:45:53)

SparkSession is available as 'spark'.

>>> from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

>>> my_spark = SparkSession \
... .builder \
... .appName("myApp") \
... .config("spark.mongodb.input.uri", "mongodb://root:password@192.168.1.32:27017/local.oplog.rs?authSource=admin") \
... .config("spark.mongodb.output.uri", "mongodb://root:password@192.168.1.32:27017/sparkoutput?authSource=admin") \
... .getOrCreate()

Make sure you are using the correct authentication source (i.e., where you authenticate yourself in the Mongo server).

3. Perform Queries on the Mongo Collection

Now you can perform queries on your remote Mongo collection through the Spark instance. For example, the below query finds the schema from the collection.

>>> df = spark.read.format("com.mongodb.spark.sql.DefaultSource").load()
>>> df.printSchema()

root
|-- h: long (nullable = true)
|-- ns: string (nullable = true)
|-- o: struct (nullable = true)
| |-- $set: struct (nullable = true)
| | |-- lastUse: timestamp (nullable = true)
| |-- $v: integer (nullable = true)