[SPARK-12431][GraphX] Add local checkpointing to GraphX.

[adeandrade]

What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Local checkpointing was added to RDD to speed up iterative spark jobs, but this capability hasn't been added to GraphX.

How was this patch tested?

Manually tested.

[andrewor14]

ok to test

[andrewor14]

@jkbradley what do you think? Should we just use local checkpointing internally through some flag or something?

[SparkQA]

Test build #59682 has finished for PR 13379 at commit 159f9d7.

• This patch fails MiMa tests.
• This patch merges cleanly.
• This patch adds no public classes.

[SparkQA]

Test build #59696 has finished for PR 13379 at commit 75fea68.

• This patch fails to build.
• This patch merges cleanly.
• This patch adds no public classes.

[adeandrade]

After fixing the MiMa issue the tests for the graphx module pass. The error in test build #59696 seems unrelated.

[AmplabJenkins]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[github-actions]

We're closing this PR because it hasn't been updated in a while. This isn't a judgement on the merit of the PR in any way. It's just a way of keeping the PR queue manageable.
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