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Sandy Ryza commented on SPARK-3441:
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I'll add mention that this can be used to get Hadoop-style shuffle. Because we
opted not to provide the grouping, the API isn't ideal for porting workloads
from Hadoop - the amount of code required to replicate the Hadoop shuffle
semantics is probably more than we can fit in the Javadoc. Not opposed to
adding a note that it can be used as a building block.
I considered a version without a partitioner, but I couldn't think of a
situation where one would care that records are sorted within a partition, but
not need to be specific about what keys end up in what partitions. Anything
you can think of that I'm missing?
> Explain in docs that repartitionAndSortWithinPartitions enacts Hadoop style
> shuffle
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> Key: SPARK-3441
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3441
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation, Spark Core
> Reporter: Patrick Wendell
> Assignee: Sandy Ryza
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> I think it would be good to say something like this in the doc for
> repartitionAndSortWithinPartitions and add also maybe in the doc for groupBy:
> {code}
> This can be used to enact a "Hadoop Style" shuffle along with a call to
> mapPartitions, e.g.:
> rdd.repartitionAndSortWithinPartitions(part).mapPartitions(...)
> {code}
> It might also be nice to add a version that doesn't take a partitioner and/or
> to mention this in the groupBy javadoc. I guess it depends a bit whether we
> consider this to be an API we want people to use more widely or whether we
> just consider it a narrow stable API mostly for Hive-on-Spark. If we want
> people to consider this API when porting workloads from Hadoop, then it might
> be worth documenting better.
> What do you think [~rxin] and [~matei]?
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