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CSV is a common format used when extracting and exchanging data between systems and platforms. Once CSV file is ingested into HDFS, you can easily read them as DataFrame in Spark. However there are a few options you need to pay attention to especially if you source file: Has records across ...

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In my previous article about  Connect to SQL Server in Spark (PySpark) , I mentioned the ways to read data from SQL Server databases as dataframe using JDBC. We can also use JDBC to write data from Spark dataframe to database tables. In the following sections, I'm going to show you how to ...

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In this article, I am going to show you how to use JDBC Kerberos authentication to connect to SQL Server sources in Spark (PySpark). I will use  Kerberos connection with principal names and password directly that requires  Microsoft JDBC Driver 6.2  or above. The sample code can run ...

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Schema evolution is supported by many frameworks or data serialization systems such as Avro, Orc, Protocol Buffer and Parquet. With schema evolution, one set of data can be stored in multiple files with different but compatible schema. In Spark, Parquet data source can detect and merge schema of ...

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This articles show you how to convert a Python dictionary list to a Spark DataFrame. The code snippets runs on Spark 2.x environments. The input data (dictionary list looks like the following): data = [{"Category": 'Category A', 'ItemID': 1, 'Amount': 12.40}, {"Category": 'Category B' ...

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Apache Arrow is an in-memory columnar data format that can be used in Spark to efficiently transfer data between JVM and Python processes. This currently is most beneficial to Python users that work with Pandas/NumPy data. In this article, I'm going to show you how to utilise Pandas UDF in ...

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This article shows you how to read and write XML files in Spark. Create a sample XML file named test.xml with the following content: <?xml version="1.0"?> <data> <record id="1"> <rid>1</rid> <name>Record 1</name> ...

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This article shows how to convert a Python dictionary list to a DataFrame in Spark using Python. data = [{"Category": 'Category A', "ID": 1, "Value": 12.40}, {"Category": 'Category B', "ID": 2, "Value": 30.10}, {"Category": 'Category C', "ID": 3, "Value": 100.01} ] The ...

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Sometime it is necessary to pass environment variables to Spark executors. To pass environment variable to executors, use setExecutorEnv function of SparkConf class. In the following code snippet, an environment variable name ENV_NAME is set up with value as 'ENV_Value'. from pyspark import ...

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Spark provides rich APIs to save data frames to many different formats of files such as CSV, Parquet, Orc, Avro, etc. CSV is commonly used in data application though nowadays binary formats are getting momentum. In this article, I am going to show you how to save Spark data frame as CSV file in ...