Remove Temporary Tables from Apache SQL Spark

Question

I have registertemptable in Apache Spark using Zeppelin below:

val hvacText = sc.textFile("...")

case class Hvac(date: String, time: String, targettemp: Integer, actualtemp: Integer, buildingID: String)

val hvac = hvacText.map(s => s.split(",")).filter(s => s(0) != "Date").map(
    s => Hvac(s(0), 
            s(1),
            s(2).toInt,
            s(3).toInt,
            s(6))).toDF()

hvac.registerTempTable("hvac")

After I have done with my queries with this temp table, how do I remove it ?

I checked all docs and it seems I am getting nowhere.

Any guidance ?

Answer 1

Spark 2.x

For temporary views you can use Catalog.dropTempView:

spark.catalog.dropTempView("df")

For global views you can use Catalog.dropGlobalTempView:

spark.catalog.dropGlobalTempView("df")

Both methods are safe to call if view doesn't exist and, since Spark 2.1, return boolean indicating if the operation succeed.

Spark 1.x

You can use SQLContext.dropTempTable:

scala.util.Try(sqlContext.dropTempTable("df"))

It can be still used in Spark 2.0, but delegates processing to Catalog.dropTempView and is safe to use if table doesn't exist.