Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

But overall, I think the original approach is not correct. If you get a single file in 10s GB, the approach is probably must be reworked. I don't see why you can't just write multiple CSV files using Spark, and then concatenate them without Spark On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Vadim Semenov

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

Given you start with ~250MB but end up with 58GB seems like you’re generating quite a bit of data. Whether you use coalesce or repartition, still writing out 58GB with one core is going to take a while. Using Spark to do pre-processing but output a single file is not going to be very

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

You can use `.checkpoint` for that `df.sort(…).coalesce(1).write...` — `coalesce` will make `sort` to have only one partition, so sorting will take a lot of time `df.sort(…).repartition(1).write...` — `repartition` will add an explicit stage, but sorting will be lost, since it's a repartition

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

I would suggest repartioning it to reasonable partitions may ne 500 and save it to some intermediate working directory . Finally read all the files from this working dir and then coalesce as 1 and save to final location. Thanks Deepak On Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 20:12 Vadim Semenov

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

because `coalesce` gets propagated further up in the DAG in the last stage, so your last stage only has one task. You need to break your DAG so your expensive operations would be in a previous stage before the stage with `.coalesce(1)` On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:23 AM, Md. Rezaul Karim <

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

Hi All, Thanks for prompt response. Really appreciated! Here's a few more info: 1. Spark version: 2.3.0 2. vCore: 8 3. RAM: 32GB 4. Deploy mode: Spark standalone *Operation performed:* I did transformations using StringIndexer on some columns and null imputations. That's all. *Why writing back

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

Sounds like you’re doing something else than just writing the same file back to disk, what your preprocessing consists? Sometimes you can save lot’s of space by using other formats but now we’re talking over 200x increase in file size so depending on the transformations for the data you might

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

Which version of spark are you using? The reason for asking this question is from Spark 2.x csv is internal library so no need to save it with com.databricks.spark.csv package. Moreover, taking time for this simple task is very much dependent upon your cluster health. Could you please provide

Re: Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

Hello, try to use parquet format with compression ( like snappy or lz4 ) so the produced files will be smaller and it will generate less i/o. Moreover normally parquet is more faster than csv format in reading for further operations . Another possible format is ORC file. Kind Regards Matteo

Writing a DataFrame is taking too long and huge space

Dear All, I have a tiny CSV file, which is around 250MB. There are only 30 columns in the DataFrame. Now I'm trying to save the pre-processed DataFrame as an another CSV file on disk for later usage. However, I'm getting pissed off as writing the resultant DataFrame is taking too long, which is