feat(analytics): add Structured Streaming, MLlib clustering, GraphX jobs

Three new Spark jobs demonstrating complementary Spark pillars:

LiveDashboardJob (Structured Streaming):
- Simulates NowChess game-over event stream via rate source
- Watermarking (45 s late-data tolerance)
- Tumbling 1-min windows → append-mode Parquet output
- Sliding 5-min/1-min windows → update-mode console output
- Checkpointing for exactly-once fault tolerance
- Production wiring comments show Kafka / spark-redis swap-in

PlayerClusteringJob (MLlib):
- Derives 4 player features from game_records via JDBC
- VectorAssembler + StandardScaler + KMeans inside a Pipeline
- ClusteringEvaluator (silhouette score) to measure quality
- Per-cluster archetype averages show what each tier represents

PlayerGraphJob (GraphX):
- Builds directed player graph (vertices=players, edges=games)
- PageRank — identifies most influential/active players
- ConnectedComponents — finds isolated player communities
- Bridges GraphX RDD results back to DataFrames via explicit schema
  (avoids spark.implicits._ which breaks Scala 3 → Spark 2.13 interop)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Janis Eccarius
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@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ dependencies {
compileOnly("org.apache.spark:spark-core_2.13:$sparkVersion") {
exclude(group = "org.slf4j", module = "slf4j-log4j12")
}
compileOnly("org.apache.spark:spark-mllib_2.13:$sparkVersion") {
exclude(group = "org.slf4j", module = "slf4j-log4j12")
}
compileOnly("org.apache.spark:spark-graphx_2.13:$sparkVersion") {
exclude(group = "org.slf4j", module = "slf4j-log4j12")
}
// PostgreSQL JDBC driver bundled so it is available on executor classpath.
implementation("org.postgresql:postgresql:42.7.4")
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
package de.nowchess.analytics
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions as F
import org.apache.spark.sql.streaming.Trigger
/** Demonstrates Spark Structured Streaming on NowChess game-over events.
*
* Spark concepts shown:
* - Continuous micro-batch processing (`readStream`)
* - Watermarking for late-data tolerance (events up to 45 s late are accepted)
* - Tumbling window aggregations — fixed 1-minute buckets, zero overlap
* - Sliding window aggregations — 5-minute window, 1-minute slide
* - Append vs Update output modes and when each is valid
* - Exactly-once fault tolerance via checkpointing
* - Multiple concurrent streaming queries on the same session
*
* Production wiring: NowChess already publishes game-over events to a Redis Stream (`nowchess:game-over`, see
* GameRedisPublisher). Swap the `rate` source below for one of the production sources shown in the comment block.
*/
object LiveDashboardJob:
def main(args: Array[String]): Unit =
val outputDir = if args.length > 0 then args(0) else "/tmp/nowchess-live-dashboard"
val spark = SparkSession
.builder()
.appName("NowChess Live Dashboard")
.getOrCreate()
run(spark, outputDir)
def run(spark: SparkSession, outputDir: String): Unit =
// ── Production sources (replace rate source with one of these) ─────────
//
// Kafka (via a Redis → Kafka bridge):
// spark.readStream
// .format("kafka")
// .option("kafka.bootstrap.servers", sys.env("KAFKA_BROKERS"))
// .option("subscribe", "nowchess.game-over")
// .load()
// .select(F.from_json(F.col("value").cast("string"), gameOverSchema).as("e"))
// .select("e.*")
//
// spark-redis (com.redislabs:spark-redis:3.1.0):
// spark.readStream
// .format("redis")
// .option("stream.keys", "nowchess:game-over")
// .schema(gameOverSchema)
// .load()
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Simulated stream: 10 game-over events / second.
// `rate` source emits (timestamp: Timestamp, value: Long) — Spark built-in, no deps.
val rawStream = spark.readStream
.format("rate")
.option("rowsPerSecond", "10")
.load()
// Derive game-outcome columns from the monotonic counter.
// In production these come directly from the event payload.
val events = rawStream
.withColumn(
"result",
F.when(F.col("value") % 3 === 0L, "white")
.when(F.col("value") % 3 === 1L, "black")
.otherwise("draw"),
)
.withColumn(
"termination",
F.when(F.col("value") % 4 === 0L, "checkmate")
.when(F.col("value") % 4 === 1L, "resignation")
.when(F.col("value") % 4 === 2L, "timeout")
.otherwise("agreement"),
)
// Watermark: accept events up to 45 seconds late.
// Spark will not emit a window result until the watermark passes its end time.
.withWatermark("timestamp", "45 seconds")
// ── Query 1: tumbling 1-minute windows ────────────────────────────────
// Each window is a non-overlapping 60-second bucket.
// outputMode("append") only emits a window after the watermark seals it —
// guarantees that late arrivals were already counted before output.
val gamesByWindow = events
.groupBy(F.window(F.col("timestamp"), "1 minute"), F.col("result"))
.agg(F.count("*").as("games"))
.select(
F.col("window.start").as("window_start"),
F.col("window.end").as("window_end"),
F.col("result"),
F.col("games"),
)
// ── Query 2: sliding 5-minute / 1-minute windows ──────────────────────
// Each window covers 5 minutes of data, and a new window opens every minute.
// outputMode("update") emits a row whenever an existing window changes —
// gives a live rolling view of termination patterns.
val terminationTrend = events
.groupBy(F.window(F.col("timestamp"), "5 minutes", "1 minute"))
.agg(
F.count("*").as("total"),
F.sum(F.when(F.col("termination") === "checkmate", 1).otherwise(0)).as("checkmates"),
F.sum(F.when(F.col("termination") === "resignation", 1).otherwise(0)).as("resignations"),
F.sum(F.when(F.col("termination") === "timeout", 1).otherwise(0)).as("timeouts"),
)
.withColumn(
"checkmate_pct",
F.round(F.col("checkmates") / F.col("total").cast("double") * 100, 1),
)
.select(
F.col("window.start").as("window_start"),
F.col("total"),
F.col("checkmate_pct"),
F.col("resignations"),
F.col("timeouts"),
)
// Write sealed windows to Parquet — safe to query with any SQL engine.
gamesByWindow.writeStream
.outputMode("append")
.format("parquet")
.option("path", s"$outputDir/game_counts_by_window")
.option("checkpointLocation", s"$outputDir/_checkpoints/game_counts")
.trigger(Trigger.ProcessingTime("30 seconds"))
.start()
// Print live rolling stats to the console every 10 seconds.
terminationTrend.writeStream
.outputMode("update")
.format("console")
.option("truncate", "false")
.option("numRows", "10")
.trigger(Trigger.ProcessingTime("10 seconds"))
.start()
// Block until any query fails or the process is killed.
spark.streams.awaitAnyTermination()
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package de.nowchess.analytics
import org.apache.spark.ml.Pipeline
import org.apache.spark.ml.clustering.KMeans
import org.apache.spark.ml.evaluation.ClusteringEvaluator
import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.StandardScaler
import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.VectorAssembler
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions as F
/** Clusters NowChess players into skill tiers using K-Means via MLlib.
*
* Spark / MLlib concepts shown:
* - Feature engineering from raw relational data (JDBC → DataFrame)
* - VectorAssembler — combine scalar columns into a dense feature vector
* - StandardScaler — zero-mean / unit-variance normalisation so that total_games (can be 1000+) does not dominate
* win_rate (01)
* - KMeans clustering — unsupervised partitioning into k skill tiers
* - Pipeline — compose transformers + estimator into a single reusable object
* - ClusteringEvaluator — silhouette score to assess cluster quality
*
* Features per player (all derived from game_records): total_games — how active the player is win_rate — overall
* strength avg_move_count — game-length preference (tactical vs positional) games_as_white_ratio — colour bias
*
* Output: Parquet: player_id + cluster (0..k-1) + feature values CSV: per-cluster archetype averages (interpret what
* each tier means)
*/
object PlayerClusteringJob:
def main(args: Array[String]): Unit =
val jdbcUrl = sys.env.getOrElse("NOWCHESS_JDBC_URL", "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/nowchess")
val dbUser = sys.env.getOrElse("NOWCHESS_DB_USER", "nowchess")
val dbPass = sys.env.getOrElse("NOWCHESS_DB_PASS", "nowchess")
val outputDir = if args.length > 0 then args(0) else "/tmp/nowchess-player-clusters"
val k = if args.length > 1 then args(1).toInt else 4
val spark = SparkSession
.builder()
.appName("NowChess Player Clustering")
.getOrCreate()
run(spark, jdbcUrl, dbUser, dbPass, outputDir, k)
spark.stop()
def run(
spark: SparkSession,
jdbcUrl: String,
dbUser: String,
dbPass: String,
outputDir: String,
k: Int,
): Unit =
val games = spark.read
.format("jdbc")
.option("url", jdbcUrl)
.option("dbtable", "game_records")
.option("user", dbUser)
.option("password", dbPass)
.option("driver", "org.postgresql.Driver")
.option("fetchsize", "10000")
.load()
.select("white_id", "black_id", "result", "move_count")
.filter(F.col("result").isNotNull)
val playerStats = buildPlayerStats(games)
.filter(F.col("total_games") >= 5)
val featureCols = Array("total_games", "win_rate", "avg_move_count", "games_as_white_ratio")
val assembler = new VectorAssembler()
.setInputCols(featureCols)
.setOutputCol("raw_features")
.setHandleInvalid("skip")
val scaler = new StandardScaler()
.setInputCol("raw_features")
.setOutputCol("features")
.setWithStd(true)
.setWithMean(true)
val kmeans = new KMeans()
.setK(k)
.setSeed(42L)
.setFeaturesCol("features")
.setPredictionCol("cluster")
val pipeline = new Pipeline().setStages(Array(assembler, scaler, kmeans))
val model = pipeline.fit(playerStats)
val predictions = model.transform(playerStats)
val silhouette = new ClusteringEvaluator()
.setFeaturesCol("features")
.setPredictionCol("cluster")
.evaluate(predictions)
println(s"[Clustering] k=$k silhouette=$silhouette")
// Average feature values per cluster reveal what each tier represents.
// Example interpretation for k=4:
// Cluster 0: high total_games + high win_rate → experienced strong players
// Cluster 1: low total_games + low win_rate → beginners / casual
// Cluster 2: high total_games + mid win_rate → active intermediate
// Cluster 3: low total_games + high win_rate → strong but infrequent
val archetypes = predictions
.groupBy("cluster")
.agg(
F.count("*").as("player_count"),
F.round(F.avg("total_games"), 1).as("avg_total_games"),
F.round(F.avg("win_rate"), 3).as("avg_win_rate"),
F.round(F.avg("avg_move_count"), 1).as("avg_move_count"),
F.round(F.avg("games_as_white_ratio"), 3).as("avg_white_ratio"),
)
.orderBy("cluster")
archetypes.show(20, false)
predictions
.select("player_id", "total_games", "win_rate", "avg_move_count", "cluster")
.write
.mode("overwrite")
.parquet(s"$outputDir/player_clusters")
archetypes.write
.mode("overwrite")
.option("header", "true")
.csv(s"$outputDir/cluster_archetypes")
private def buildPlayerStats(games: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame): org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame =
val asWhite = games.select(
F.col("white_id").as("player_id"),
F.col("result"),
F.col("move_count"),
F.lit(1).as("is_white"),
)
val asBlack = games.select(
F.col("black_id").as("player_id"),
F.col("result"),
F.col("move_count"),
F.lit(0).as("is_white"),
)
val won = (F.col("is_white") === 1 && F.col("result") === "white")
.or(F.col("is_white") === 0 && F.col("result") === "black")
asWhite
.union(asBlack)
.groupBy("player_id")
.agg(
F.count("*").as("total_games"),
F.round(F.sum(F.when(won, 1.0).otherwise(0.0)) / F.count("*"), 3).as("win_rate"),
F.round(F.avg(F.col("move_count")), 1).as("avg_move_count"),
F.round(F.avg(F.col("is_white").cast("double")), 3).as("games_as_white_ratio"),
)
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package de.nowchess.analytics
import org.apache.spark.graphx.Edge
import org.apache.spark.graphx.Graph
import org.apache.spark.graphx.VertexId
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions as F
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DataType
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DoubleType
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.LongType
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StringType
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructField
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
/** Models the NowChess player network as a directed graph and runs GraphX analytics.
*
* Spark / GraphX concepts shown:
* - Building a Graph from RDDs derived from a JDBC DataFrame
* - PageRank — measures a player's "influence"; high score = many games against other high-ranked players (analogous
* to web link authority)
* - Connected Components — finds isolated player communities; players who have never played anyone from another
* component cannot be linked
* - Converting GraphX results back to DataFrames for SQL-style joins and output
*
* Graph model: Vertices: one per unique player (vertex ID = hashCode of player UUID string) Edges: one per completed
* game (white → black), attributed with result
*
* Note: hashCode gives a 32-bit → 64-bit vertex ID; collision probability is negligible for typical player counts. For
* millions of players, replace with MLlib StringIndexer to generate collision-free Long IDs.
*/
object PlayerGraphJob:
def main(args: Array[String]): Unit =
val jdbcUrl = sys.env.getOrElse("NOWCHESS_JDBC_URL", "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/nowchess")
val dbUser = sys.env.getOrElse("NOWCHESS_DB_USER", "nowchess")
val dbPass = sys.env.getOrElse("NOWCHESS_DB_PASS", "nowchess")
val outputDir = if args.length > 0 then args(0) else "/tmp/nowchess-player-graph"
val spark = SparkSession
.builder()
.appName("NowChess Player Graph Analytics")
.getOrCreate()
run(spark, jdbcUrl, dbUser, dbPass, outputDir)
spark.stop()
def run(
spark: SparkSession,
jdbcUrl: String,
dbUser: String,
dbPass: String,
outputDir: String,
): Unit =
val gamesRdd: RDD[Row] = spark.read
.format("jdbc")
.option("url", jdbcUrl)
.option("dbtable", "game_records")
.option("user", dbUser)
.option("password", dbPass)
.option("driver", "org.postgresql.Driver")
.option("fetchsize", "10000")
.load()
.select("white_id", "black_id", "result")
.filter(F.col("result").isNotNull)
.rdd
val toVid: String => VertexId = s => s.hashCode.toLong
// Each row contributes two vertex entries (white and black player).
val vertices: RDD[(VertexId, String)] = gamesRdd
.flatMap { row =>
Seq(
(toVid(row.getString(0)), row.getString(0)),
(toVid(row.getString(1)), row.getString(1)),
)
}
.distinct()
// Directed edge white → black, labelled with the game result.
val edges: RDD[Edge[String]] = gamesRdd.map { row =>
Edge(toVid(row.getString(0)), toVid(row.getString(1)), row.getString(2))
}
val graph: Graph[String, String] = Graph(vertices, edges)
println(s"[Graph] vertices=${graph.numVertices} edges=${graph.numEdges}")
// ── PageRank ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Convergence tolerance 0.01 — lower = more iterations = more accurate.
// Returns Graph[Double, Double]; vertex attribute = PageRank score.
val pageRanks: RDD[(VertexId, Double)] = graph.pageRank(0.01).vertices
// ── Connected Components ────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Returns Graph[VertexId, ED]; vertex attribute = minimum vertex ID in
// the component (serves as a stable component label).
val components: RDD[(VertexId, VertexId)] = graph.connectedComponents().vertices
// Convert each RDD result to a DataFrame so we can join with SQL semantics.
val vertexDf = rddToFrame(spark, vertices, "player_id", StringType)
val pageRankDf = rddToFrame(spark, pageRanks, "page_rank", DoubleType)
val componentDf = rddToFrame(spark, components, "component_id", LongType)
val result = vertexDf
.join(pageRankDf, "vertex_id")
.join(componentDf, "vertex_id")
.drop("vertex_id")
.withColumn("page_rank", F.round(F.col("page_rank"), 4))
.orderBy(F.desc("page_rank"))
println("[Graph] Top 20 players by PageRank:")
result.show(20, false)
result.write
.mode("overwrite")
.parquet(s"$outputDir/player_graph")
// How many players belong to each connected component?
// A large dominant component + many singletons is the expected shape.
val componentSizes = result
.groupBy("component_id")
.agg(F.count("*").as("player_count"))
.orderBy(F.desc("player_count"))
println("[Graph] Connected component sizes:")
componentSizes.show(10, false)
componentSizes.write
.mode("overwrite")
.option("header", "true")
.csv(s"$outputDir/component_sizes")
// Build a two-column DataFrame (vertex_id: Long, valueCol: valueType) from an RDD.
// Used to bridge GraphX RDD results into the DataFrame API without implicits.
private def rddToFrame[T](
spark: SparkSession,
rdd: RDD[(VertexId, T)],
valueCol: String,
valueType: DataType,
): org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame =
val schema = StructType(
List(
StructField("vertex_id", LongType, nullable = false),
StructField(valueCol, valueType, nullable = false),
),
)
spark.createDataFrame(
rdd.map { case (vid, v) => Row.fromSeq(Seq[Any](vid, v)) },
schema,
)