As you noted, Accumulators do not guarantee accurate results except in
specific situations. I recommend never using them.
This article goes into some detail on the problems with accumulators:
http://imranrashid.com/posts/Spark-Accumulators/
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Charles O. Bajomo <
Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if there is any benefit to using an acculumator over just
executing a count() on the whole RDD. There seems to be a lot of issues with
accumulator during a stage failure and also seems to be an issue rebuilding
them if the application restarts from a
