RDD Actions
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In PySpark, an RDD (Resilient Distributed Dataset) is a distributed collection of elements that can be processed in parallel. Some common actions that can be performed on an RDD include:
- count(): returns the number of elements in the RDD
- first(): returns the first element of the RDD
- take(n): returns the first n elements of the RDD as an array
- collect(): returns all elements of the RDD as an array (this should be used with caution, as it can cause the driver to run out of memory if the RDD is too large)
- reduce(func): applies a binary operator to the elements of the RDD, where func is a function that takes two arguments and returns a single value
- foreach(func): applies a function to each element of the RDD
- filter(func): returns a new RDD containing only the elements that satisfy a given predicate (i.e., for which the function returns True)
- map(func): returns a new RDD by applying a function to each element of the RDD
- flatMap(func): returns a new RDD by applying a function to each element of the RDD and flattening the results
These are just a few examples of the many actions that can be performed on an RDD in PySpark. More information can be found in the PySpark documentation.
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