RDD的cache、persist、checkpoint的区别和StorageLevel存储级别划分

  /**
   * Persist this RDD with the default storage level (`MEMORY_ONLY`).
   */
  def persist(): this.type = persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_ONLY)

  /**
   * Persist this RDD with the default storage level (`MEMORY_ONLY`).
   */
  def cache(): this.type = persist()

  /**
   * Mark this RDD for persisting using the specified level.
   *
   * @param newLevel the target storage level
   * @param allowOverride whether to override any existing level with the new one
   */
  private def persist(newLevel: StorageLevel, allowOverride: Boolean): this.type = {
    // TODO: Handle changes of StorageLevel
    if (storageLevel != StorageLevel.NONE && newLevel != storageLevel && !allowOverride) {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
        "Cannot change storage level of an RDD after it was already assigned a level")
    }
    // If this is the first time this RDD is marked for persisting, register it
    // with the SparkContext for cleanups and accounting. Do this only once.
    if (storageLevel == StorageLevel.NONE) {
      sc.cleaner.foreach(_.registerRDDForCleanup(this))
      sc.persistRDD(this)
    }
    storageLevel = newLevel
    this
  }

  /**
   * Set this RDD‘s storage level to persist its values across operations after the first time
   * it is computed. This can only be used to assign a new storage level if the RDD does not
   * have a storage level set yet. Local checkpointing is an exception.
   */
  def persist(newLevel: StorageLevel): this.type = {
    if (isLocallyCheckpointed) {
      // This means the user previously called localCheckpoint(), which should have already
      // marked this RDD for persisting. Here we should override the old storage level with
      // one that is explicitly requested by the user (after adapting it to use disk).
      persist(LocalRDDCheckpointData.transformStorageLevel(newLevel), allowOverride = true)
    } else {
      persist(newLevel, allowOverride = false)
    }
  }

  /**
   * Persist this RDD with the default storage level (`MEMORY_ONLY`).
   */
  def persist(): this.type = persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_ONLY)