Output Operations on DStreams

Output Operation	Meaning
print()	Prints the first ten elements of every batch of data in a DStream on the driver node running the streaming application. This is useful for development and debugging.  Python API This is called pprint() in the Python API.
saveAsTextFiles(prefix, [suffix])	Save this DStream's contents as text files. The file name at each batch interval is generated based on prefix and suffix: "prefix-TIME_IN_MS[.suffix]".
saveAsObjectFiles(prefix, [suffix])	Save this DStream's contents as SequenceFiles of serialized Java objects. The file name at each batch interval is generated based on prefix and suffix: "prefix-TIME_IN_MS[.suffix]".  Python API This is not available in the Python API.
saveAsHadoopFiles(prefix, [suffix])	Save this DStream's contents as Hadoop files. The file name at each batch interval is generated based on prefix and suffix: "prefix-TIME_IN_MS[.suffix]".  Python API This is not available in the Python API.
foreachRDD(func)	The most generic output operator that applies a function, func, to each RDD generated from the stream. This function should push the data in each RDD to an external system, such as saving the RDD to files, or writing it over the network to a database. Note that the function func is executed in the driver process running the streaming application, and will usually have RDD actions in it that will force the computation of the streaming RDDs.