Parse CSV as DataFrame/DataSet with Apache Spark and Java

Question

I am new to spark, and I want to use group-by & reduce to find the following from CSV (one line by employed):

  Department, Designation, costToCompany, State
  Sales, Trainee, 12000, UP
  Sales, Lead, 32000, AP
  Sales, Lead, 32000, LA
  Sales, Lead, 32000, TN
  Sales, Lead, 32000, AP
  Sales, Lead, 32000, TN 
  Sales, Lead, 32000, LA
  Sales, Lead, 32000, LA
  Marketing, Associate, 18000, TN
  Marketing, Associate, 18000, TN
  HR, Manager, 58000, TN

I would like to simplify the about CSV with group by Department, Designation, State with additional columns with sum(costToCompany) and TotalEmployeeCount

Should get a result like:

  Dept, Desg, state, empCount, totalCost
  Sales,Lead,AP,2,64000
  Sales,Lead,LA,3,96000  
  Sales,Lead,TN,2,64000

Is there any way to achieve this using transformations and actions. Or should we go for RDD operations?

Answer 1

Procedure

• Create a Class (Schema) to encapsulate your structure (it’s not required for the approach B, but it would make your code easier to read if you are using Java)

  public class Record implements Serializable {
    String department;
    String designation;
    long costToCompany;
    String state;
    // constructor , getters and setters  
  }
  

• Loading CVS (JSON) file

  JavaSparkContext sc;
  JavaRDD<String> data = sc.textFile("path/input.csv");
  //JavaSQLContext sqlContext = new JavaSQLContext(sc); // For previous versions 
  SQLContext sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc); // In Spark 1.3 the Java API and Scala API have been unified
  
  
  JavaRDD<Record> rdd_records = sc.textFile(data).map(
    new Function<String, Record>() {
        public Record call(String line) throws Exception {
           // Here you can use JSON
           // Gson gson = new Gson();
           // gson.fromJson(line, Record.class);
           String[] fields = line.split(",");
           Record sd = new Record(fields[0], fields[1], fields[2].trim(), fields[3]);
           return sd;
        }
  });
  

At this point you have 2 approaches:

A. SparkSQL

• Register a table (using the your defined Schema Class)

  JavaSchemaRDD table = sqlContext.applySchema(rdd_records, Record.class);
  table.registerAsTable("record_table");
  table.printSchema();
  

• Query the table with your desired Query-group-by

  JavaSchemaRDD res = sqlContext.sql("
    select department,designation,state,sum(costToCompany),count(*) 
    from record_table 
    group by department,designation,state
  ");
  

• Here you would also be able to do any other query you desire, using a SQL approach

B. Spark

• Mapping using a composite key: Department,Designation,State

  JavaPairRDD<String, Tuple2<Long, Integer>> records_JPRDD = 
  rdd_records.mapToPair(new
    PairFunction<Record, String, Tuple2<Long, Integer>>(){
      public Tuple2<String, Tuple2<Long, Integer>> call(Record record){
        Tuple2<String, Tuple2<Long, Integer>> t2 = 
        new Tuple2<String, Tuple2<Long,Integer>>(
          record.Department + record.Designation + record.State,
          new Tuple2<Long, Integer>(record.costToCompany,1)
        );
        return t2;
  }
  

  });

• reduceByKey using the composite key, summing costToCompany column, and accumulating the number of records by key

  JavaPairRDD<String, Tuple2<Long, Integer>> final_rdd_records = 
   records_JPRDD.reduceByKey(new Function2<Tuple2<Long, Integer>, Tuple2<Long,
   Integer>, Tuple2<Long, Integer>>() {
      public Tuple2<Long, Integer> call(Tuple2<Long, Integer> v1,
      Tuple2<Long, Integer> v2) throws Exception {
          return new Tuple2<Long, Integer>(v1._1 + v2._1, v1._2+ v2._2);
      }
  });