Stream reading from database using spark streaming

Question

I want to use spark streaming to read data from RDBMS database like mysql.

but I don't know how to do this using JavaStreamingContext

 JavaStreamingContext jssc = new JavaStreamingContext(conf, Durations.milliseconds(500));
DataFrame df = jssc. ??

I search in the internet but I didn't find anything

thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You cannot do it like that without installing some third party piece of software.
What you CAN do is creating a personalized receiver which does what you want, using the SparkSQL package and the Streaming one combined.
Implement a class extending Receiver and inside do all the connections and querys needed to pull the data from the DB.
I am at work now, so I'll give you a link to see instead of producing the code, sorry:
http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-custom-receivers.html
https://medium.com/@anicolaspp/spark-custom-streaming-sources-e7d52da72e80

Answer 2

The best possible and reliable solution would be avoid using MySqL at all. when you insert your records to MySQl put them also into Kafka (Kafka producer) by a transaction and then use them in your streaming application.