pyspark.RDD.combineByKey

RDD.combineByKey(createCombiner, mergeValue, mergeCombiners, numPartitions=None, partitionFunc=<function portable_hash>)[source]

Generic function to combine the elements for each key using a custom set of aggregation functions.

Turns an RDD[(K, V)] into a result of type RDD[(K, C)], for a “combined type” C.

Users provide three functions:

  • createCombiner, which turns a V into a C (e.g., creates a one-element list)

  • mergeValue, to merge a V into a C (e.g., adds it to the end of a list)

  • mergeCombiners, to combine two C’s into a single one (e.g., merges the lists)

To avoid memory allocation, both mergeValue and mergeCombiners are allowed to modify and return their first argument instead of creating a new C.

In addition, users can control the partitioning of the output RDD.

Notes

V and C can be different – for example, one might group an RDD of type

(Int, Int) into an RDD of type (Int, List[Int]).

Examples

>>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 1), ("a", 2)])
>>> def to_list(a):
...     return [a]
...
>>> def append(a, b):
...     a.append(b)
...     return a
...
>>> def extend(a, b):
...     a.extend(b)
...     return a
...
>>> sorted(x.combineByKey(to_list, append, extend).collect())
[('a', [1, 2]), ('b', [1])]
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