Problem: How to create a Spark DataFrame with Array of struct column using Spark and Scala? Using StructType and ArrayType classes we can create a DataFrame with Array of Struct column ( ArrayType(StructType) ). From below example column "booksInterested" is an array of StructType which holds "name", "author" and the…
Problem: How to define Spark DataFrame using the nested array column (Array of Array)? Solution: Using StructType we can define an Array of Array (Nested Array) ArrayType(ArrayType(StringType)) DataFrame column using Scala example. The below example creates a DataFrame with a nested array column. From below example column "subjects" is an…
Problem: How to explode & flatten nested array (Array of Array) DataFrame columns into rows using PySpark. Solution: PySpark explode function can be used to explode an Array of Array (nested Array) ArrayType(ArrayType(StringType)) columns to rows on PySpark DataFrame using python example. Before we start, let’s create a DataFrame with a nested…
In this article, I will explain how to explode array or list and map columns to rows using different PySpark DataFrame functions (explode, explore_outer, posexplode, posexplode_outer) with Python example. Before we start, let’s create a DataFrame with array and map fields, below snippet, creates a DF with columns “name” as…
Problem: How to explode & flatten the Array of Array (Nested Array) DataFrame columns into rows using Spark. Solution: Spark explode function can be used to explode an Array of Array (Nested Array) ArrayType(ArrayType(StringType)) columns to rows on Spark DataFrame using scala example. Before we start, let's create a DataFrame…
Problem: How to explode the Array of Map DataFrame columns to rows using Spark. Solution: Spark explode function can be used to explode an Array of Map ArrayType(MapType) columns to rows on Spark DataFrame using scala example. Before we start, let's create a DataFrame with map column in an array.…
Problem: How to explode Array of StructType DataFrame columns to rows using Spark. Solution: Spark explode function can be used to explode an Array of Struct ArrayType(StructType) columns to rows on Spark DataFrame using scala example. Before we start, let's create a DataFrame with Struct column in an array. From…
In this article, I will explain how to explode array or list and map DataFrame columns to rows using different Spark explode functions (explode, explore_outer, posexplode, posexplode_outer) with Scala example. While working with structured files like JSON, Parquet, Avro, and XML we often get data in collections like arrays, lists,…