RDD are immutable so cannot be updated. You can create new RDD containing updated entries(often not what you want to do).
Mayur Rustagi Ph: +1 (760) 203 3257 http://www.sigmoidanalytics.com @mayur_rustagi <https://twitter.com/mayur_rustagi> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:42 AM, narayanabhatla NarasimhaMurthy < nn.mur...@cmcltd.com> wrote: > In our application, we need distributed RDDs containing key-value maps. We > have operations that update RDDs by way of adding entries to the map, > delete > entries from the map as well as update value part of maps. > We also have map reduce functions that operate on the RDDs.The questions > are > the following. > 1. Can RDDs be updated? if Yes, what rae the methods? > 2. If we update RDDs, will it happen in place or does it create new RDDs > with almost double the original RDD size (original+newly created RDD)? > Thank you very much. > N.N.Murthy > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/update-of-RDDs-tp5132.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >