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Basic Aggregation — Typed and Untyped Grouping Operators

You can calculate aggregates over a group of rows in a Dataset.md[Dataset] using <> (possibly with aggregate functions).

[[aggregate-operators]] .Aggregate Operators [width="100%",cols="1,1,2",options="header"] |=== | Operator | Return Type | Description

| <> | RelationalGroupedDataset | Aggregates with or without grouping (i.e. over an entire Dataset)

| <> | RelationalGroupedDataset | Used for untyped aggregates using DataFrames. Grouping is described using column expressions or column names.

| <> | KeyValueGroupedDataset | Used for typed aggregates using Datasets with records grouped by a key-defining discriminator function. |===

NOTE: Aggregate functions without aggregate operators return a single value. If you want to find the aggregate values for each unique value (in a column), you should <> first (over this column) to build the groups.

[NOTE]

You can also use SparkSession.md#sql[SparkSession] to execute good ol' SQL with GROUP BY should you prefer.

[source, scala]

val spark: SparkSession = ??? spark.sql("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sales GROUP BY city")

SQL or Dataset API's operators go through the same query planning and optimizations, and have the same performance characteristic in the end.

=== [[agg]] Aggregates Over Subset Of or Whole Dataset -- agg Operator

[source, scala]

agg(expr: Column, exprs: Column*): DataFrame agg(exprs: Map[String, String]): DataFrame agg(aggExpr: (String, String), aggExprs: (String, String)*): DataFrame

<> applies an aggregate function on a subset or the entire Dataset (i.e. considering the entire data set as one group).

NOTE: agg on a Dataset is simply a shortcut for <>.

[source, scala]

scala> spark.range(10).agg(sum('id) as "sum").show +---+ |sum| +---+ | 45| +---+

agg can compute aggregate expressions on all the records in a Dataset.

=== [[groupBy]] Untyped Grouping -- groupBy Operator

groupBy(
  cols: Column*): RelationalGroupedDataset
groupBy(
  col1: String,
  cols: String*): RelationalGroupedDataset

groupBy operator groups the rows in a Dataset by columns (as Column expressions or names).

groupBy gives a RelationalGroupedDataset to execute aggregate functions or operators.

[source, scala]

// 10^3-record large data set val ints = 1 to math.pow(10, 3).toInt val nms = ints.toDF("n").withColumn("m", 'n % 2) scala> nms.count res0: Long = 1000

val q = nms. groupBy('m). agg(sum('n) as "sum"). orderBy('m) scala> q.show +---+------+ | m| sum| +---+------+ | 0|250500| | 1|250000| +---+------+

Internally, groupBy Dataset.md#resolve[resolves column names] (possibly quoted) and creates a RelationalGroupedDataset (with groupType being GroupByType).

NOTE: The following uses the data setup as described in <> section below.

[source, scala]

scala> tokens.show +----+---------+-----+ |name|productId|score| +----+---------+-----+ | aaa| 100| 0.12| | aaa| 200| 0.29| | bbb| 200| 0.53| | bbb| 300| 0.42| +----+---------+-----+

scala> tokens.groupBy('name).avg().show +----+--------------+----------+ |name|avg(productId)|avg(score)| +----+--------------+----------+ | aaa| 150.0| 0.205| | bbb| 250.0| 0.475| +----+--------------+----------+

scala> tokens.groupBy('name, 'productId).agg(Map("score" -> "avg")).show +----+---------+----------+ |name|productId|avg(score)| +----+---------+----------+ | aaa| 200| 0.29| | bbb| 200| 0.53| | bbb| 300| 0.42| | aaa| 100| 0.12| +----+---------+----------+

scala> tokens.groupBy('name).count.show +----+-----+ |name|count| +----+-----+ | aaa| 2| | bbb| 2| +----+-----+

scala> tokens.groupBy('name).max("score").show +----+----------+ |name|max(score)| +----+----------+ | aaa| 0.29| | bbb| 0.53| +----+----------+

scala> tokens.groupBy('name).sum("score").show +----+----------+ |name|sum(score)| +----+----------+ | aaa| 0.41| | bbb| 0.95| +----+----------+

scala> tokens.groupBy('productId).sum("score").show +---------+------------------+ |productId| sum(score)| +---------+------------------+ | 300| 0.42| | 100| 0.12| | 200|0.8200000000000001| +---------+------------------+

=== [[groupByKey]] Typed Grouping -- groupByKey Operator

[source, scala]

groupByKeyK: Encoder: KeyValueGroupedDataset[K, T]

groupByKey groups records (of type T) by the input func and in the end returns a KeyValueGroupedDataset to apply aggregation to.

NOTE: groupByKey is Dataset's experimental API.

scala> tokens.groupByKey(_.productId).count.orderBy($"value").show
+-----+--------+
|value|count(1)|
+-----+--------+
|  100|       1|
|  200|       2|
|  300|       1|
+-----+--------+

import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions.scalalang._
val q = tokens.
  groupByKey(_.productId).
  agg(typed.sum[Token](_.score)).
  toDF("productId", "sum").
  orderBy('productId)
scala> q.show
+---------+------------------+
|productId|               sum|
+---------+------------------+
|      100|              0.12|
|      200|0.8200000000000001|
|      300|              0.42|
+---------+------------------+

=== [[test-setup]] Test Setup

This is a setup for learning GroupedData. Paste it into Spark Shell using :paste.

[source, scala]

import spark.implicits._

case class Token(name: String, productId: Int, score: Double) val data = Seq( Token("aaa", 100, 0.12), Token("aaa", 200, 0.29), Token("bbb", 200, 0.53), Token("bbb", 300, 0.42)) val tokens = data.toDS.cache // <1>

<1> Cache the dataset so the following queries won't load/recompute data over and over again.

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