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Markus
Markus

Reputation: 3782

How to transform DataFrame before joining operation?

The following code is used to extract ranks from the column products. The ranks are second numbers in each pair [...]. For example, in the given example [[222,66],[333,55]] the ranks are 66 and 55 for products with PK 222 and 333, accordingly. But the code in Spark 2.2 works very slowly when df_products is around 800 Mb:

df_products.createOrReplaceTempView("df_products")

val result = df.as("df2")
               .join(spark.sql("SELECT * FROM df_products")
               .select($"product_PK", explode($"products").as("products"))
               .withColumnRenamed("product_PK","product_PK_temp").as("df1"),$"df2.product               _PK" === $"df1.product_PK_temp" and $"df2.rec_product_PK" === $"df1.products.product_PK", "left")
               .drop($"df1.product_PK_temp")
               .select($"product_PK", $"rec_product_PK", coalesce($"df1.products.col2", lit(0.0)).as("rank_product"))

This is a small sample of df_products and df:

df_products =

+----------+--------------------+
|product_PK|            products|
+----------+--------------------+
|       111|[[222,66],[333,55...|
|       222|[[333,24],[444,77...|
...
+----------+--------------------+

df =

+----------+-----------------+                 
|product_PK|   rec_product_PK|
+----------+-----------------+
|       111|              222|
|       222|              888|
+----------+-----------------+

The above-given code works well when the arrays in each row of products contain a small number of elements. But when there are a lot of elements in the arrays of each row [[..],[..],...], then the code seems to get stuck and it does not advance.

How can I optimize the code? Any help is really highly appreciated.

Is it possible, for example, to transform df_products into the following DataFrame before joining?

df_products =

+----------+--------------------+------+
|product_PK|      rec_product_PK|  rank|
+----------+--------------------+------+
|       111|                 222|    66|
|       111|                 333|    55|
|       222|                 333|    24|
|       222|                 444|    77|
...
+----------+--------------------+------+

Upvotes: 0

Views: 131

Answers (1)

Assaf Mendelson
Assaf Mendelson

Reputation: 13001

As per my answer here, you can transform df_products using something like this:

import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.explode
df1 = df.withColumn("array_elem", explode(df("products"))
df2 = df1.select("product_PK", "array_elem.*")

This assumes products is an array of structs. If products is an array of array, you can use the following instead:

df2 = df1.withColumn("rank", df2("products").getItem(1))

Upvotes: 1

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