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Eve
Eve

Reputation: 646

Scala: How can I split up a dataframe by row number?

I want to split up a dataframe of 2,7 million rows into small dataframes of 100000 rows, so end up with like 27 dataframes, which I want to store as csv files too.

I took a look at this partitionBy and groupBy already, but I don't need to worry about any conditions, except that they have to be ordered by date. I am trying to write my own code to make this work, but if you know about some Scala (Spark) functions I could use, that would be great!

Thank you all for the suggestions!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1625

Answers (1)

Oli
Oli

Reputation: 10406

You could use zipWithIndex from the RDD API (no equivalent in SparkSQL unfortunately) that maps each row to an index, ranging between 0 and rdd.count - 1.

So if you have a dataframe that I assumed to be sorted accordingly, you would need to go back and forth between the two APIs as follows:

import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row

// creating mock data
val df = spark.range(100).withColumn("test", 'id % 10)

// zipping the data
val partitionSize = 5 // I use 5 but you can use 100000 in your case
val zipped_rdd = df.rdd
    .zipWithIndex.map{ case (row, id) => 
        Row.fromSeq(row.toSeq :+ id / partitionSize ) 
    }

//back to df
val newField = StructField("partition", LongType, false)
val zipped_df = spark
    .createDataFrame(zipped_rdd, df.schema.add(newField))

Let's have a look at the data, we have a new column called partition and that corresponds to the way you want to split your data.

zipped_df.show(15) // 5 rows by partition
+---+----+---------+
| id|test|partition|
+---+----+---------+
|  0|   0|        0|
|  1|   1|        0|
|  2|   2|        0|
|  3|   3|        0|
|  4|   4|        0|
|  5|   5|        1|
|  6|   6|        1|
|  7|   7|        1|
|  8|   8|        1|
|  9|   9|        1|
| 10|   0|        2|
| 11|   1|        2|
| 12|   2|        2|
| 13|   3|        2|
| 14|   4|        2|
+---+----+---------+

// using partitionBy to write the data
zipped_df.write
    .partitionBy("partition")
    .csv(".../testPart.csv")

Upvotes: 2

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