Concatenate two PySpark dataframes
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I'm trying to concatenate two PySpark dataframes with some columns that are only on one of them:
from pyspark.sql.functions import randn, rand
df_1 = sqlContext.range(0, 10)
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df_2 = sqlContext.range(11, 20)
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df_1 = df_1.select("id", rand(seed=10).alias("uniform"), randn(seed=27).alias("normal"))
df_2 = df_2.select("id", rand(seed=10).alias("uniform"), randn(seed=27).alias("normal_2"))
and now I want to generate a third dataframe. I would like something like pandas concat:
df_1.show()
+---+--------------------+--------------------+
| id| uniform| normal|
+---+--------------------+--------------------+
| 0| 0.8122802274304282| 1.2423430583597714|
| 1| 0.8642043127063618| 0.3900018344856156|
| 2| 0.8292577771850476| 1.8077401259195247|
| 3| 0.198558705368724| -0.4270585782850261|
| 4|0.012661361966674889| 0.702634599720141|
| 5| 0.8535692890157796|-0.42355804115129153|
| 6| 0.3723296190171911| 1.3789648582622995|
| 7| 0.9529794127670571| 0.16238718777444605|
| 8| 0.9746632635918108| 0.02448061333761742|
| 9| 0.513622008243935| 0.7626741803250845|
+---+--------------------+--------------------+
df_2.show()
+---+--------------------+--------------------+
| id| uniform| normal_2|
+---+--------------------+--------------------+
| 11| 0.3221262660507942| 1.0269298899109824|
| 12| 0.4030672316912547| 1.285648175568798|
| 13| 0.9690555459609131|-0.22986601831364423|
| 14|0.011913836266515876| -0.678915153834693|
| 15| 0.9359607054250594|-0.16557488664743034|
| 16| 0.45680471157575453| -0.3885563551710555|
| 17| 0.6411908952297819| 0.9161177183227823|
| 18| 0.5669232696934479| 0.7270125277020573|
| 19| 0.513622008243935| 0.7626741803250845|
+---+--------------------+--------------------+
#do some concatenation here, how?
df_concat.show()
| id| uniform| normal| normal_2 |
+---+--------------------+--------------------+------------+
| 0| 0.8122802274304282| 1.2423430583597714| None |
| 1| 0.8642043127063618| 0.3900018344856156| None |
| 2| 0.8292577771850476| 1.8077401259195247| None |
| 3| 0.198558705368724| -0.4270585782850261| None |
| 4|0.012661361966674889| 0.702634599720141| None |
| 5| 0.8535692890157796|-0.42355804115129153| None |
| 6| 0.3723296190171911| 1.3789648582622995| None |
| 7| 0.9529794127670571| 0.16238718777444605| None |
| 8| 0.9746632635918108| 0.02448061333761742| None |
| 9| 0.513622008243935| 0.7626741803250845| None |
| 11| 0.3221262660507942| None | 0.123 |
| 12| 0.4030672316912547| None |0.12323 |
| 13| 0.9690555459609131| None |0.123 |
| 14|0.011913836266515876| None |0.18923 |
| 15| 0.9359607054250594| None |0.99123 |
| 16| 0.45680471157575453| None |0.123 |
| 17| 0.6411908952297819| None |1.123 |
| 18| 0.5669232696934479| None |0.10023 |
| 19| 0.513622008243935| None |0.916332123 |
+---+--------------------+--------------------+------------+
Is that possible?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
Maybe you can try creating the unexisting columns and calling union (unionAll for Spark 1.6 or lower):
from pyspark.sql.functions import lit
cols = ['id', 'uniform', 'normal', 'normal_2']
df_1_new = df_1.withColumn("normal_2", lit(None)).select(cols)
df_2_new = df_2.withColumn("normal", lit(None)).select(cols)
result = df_1_new.union(df_2_new)
Solution 2 - Python
df_concat = df_1.union(df_2)
The dataframes may need to have identical columns, in which case you can use withColumn() to create normal_1 and normal_2
Solution 3 - Python
You can use unionByName to make this:
df = df_1.unionByName(df_2)
unionByName is available since Spark 2.3.0.
Solution 4 - Python
unionByName is a built-in option available in spark which is available from spark 2.3.0.
with spark version 3.1.0, there is allowMissingColumns option with the default value set to False to handle missing columns. Even if both dataframes don't have the same set of columns, this function will work, setting missing column values to null in the resulting dataframe.
df_1.unionByName(df_2, allowMissingColumns=True).show()
+---+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| id| uniform| normal| normal_2|
+---+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 0| 0.8122802274304282| 1.2423430583597714| null|
| 1| 0.8642043127063618| 0.3900018344856156| null|
| 2| 0.8292577771850476| 1.8077401259195247| null|
| 3| 0.198558705368724| -0.4270585782850261| null|
| 4|0.012661361966674889| 0.702634599720141| null|
| 5| 0.8535692890157796|-0.42355804115129153| null|
| 6| 0.3723296190171911| 1.3789648582622995| null|
| 7| 0.9529794127670571| 0.16238718777444605| null|
| 8| 0.9746632635918108| 0.02448061333761742| null|
| 9| 0.513622008243935| 0.7626741803250845| null|
| 11| 0.3221262660507942| null| 1.0269298899109824|
| 12| 0.4030672316912547| null| 1.285648175568798|
| 13| 0.9690555459609131| null|-0.22986601831364423|
| 14|0.011913836266515876| null| -0.678915153834693|
| 15| 0.9359607054250594| null|-0.16557488664743034|
| 16| 0.45680471157575453| null| -0.3885563551710555|
| 17| 0.6411908952297819| null| 0.9161177183227823|
| 18| 0.5669232696934479| null| 0.7270125277020573|
| 19| 0.513622008243935| null| 0.7626741803250845|
+---+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
Solution 5 - Python
To make it more generic of keeping both columns in df1 and df2:
import pyspark.sql.functions as F
# Keep all columns in either df1 or df2
def outter_union(df1, df2):
# Add missing columns to df1
left_df = df1
for column in set(df2.columns) - set(df1.columns):
left_df = left_df.withColumn(column, F.lit(None))
# Add missing columns to df2
right_df = df2
for column in set(df1.columns) - set(df2.columns):
right_df = right_df.withColumn(column, F.lit(None))
# Make sure columns are ordered the same
return left_df.union(right_df.select(left_df.columns))
Solution 6 - Python
Here is one way to do it, in case it is still useful: I ran this in pyspark shell, Python version 2.7.12 and my Spark install was version 2.0.1.
PS: I guess you meant to use different seeds for the df_1 df_2 and the code below reflects that.
from pyspark.sql.types import FloatType
from pyspark.sql.functions import randn, rand
import pyspark.sql.functions as F
df_1 = sqlContext.range(0, 10)
df_2 = sqlContext.range(11, 20)
df_1 = df_1.select("id", rand(seed=10).alias("uniform"), randn(seed=27).alias("normal"))
df_2 = df_2.select("id", rand(seed=11).alias("uniform"), randn(seed=28).alias("normal_2"))
def get_uniform(df1_uniform, df2_uniform):
if df1_uniform:
return df1_uniform
if df2_uniform:
return df2_uniform
u_get_uniform = F.udf(get_uniform, FloatType())
df_3 = df_1.join(df_2, on = "id", how = 'outer').select("id", u_get_uniform(df_1["uniform"], df_2["uniform"]).alias("uniform"), "normal", "normal_2").orderBy(F.col("id"))
Here are the outputs I get:
df_1.show()
+---+-------------------+--------------------+
| id| uniform| normal|
+---+-------------------+--------------------+
| 0|0.41371264720975787| 0.5888539012978773|
| 1| 0.7311719281896606| 0.8645537008427937|
| 2| 0.1982919638208397| 0.06157382353970104|
| 3|0.12714181165849525| 0.3623040918178586|
| 4| 0.7604318153406678|-0.49575204523675975|
| 5|0.12030715258495939| 1.0854146699817222|
| 6|0.12131363910425985| -0.5284523629183004|
| 7|0.44292918521277047| -0.4798519469521663|
| 8| 0.8898784253886249| -0.8820294772950535|
| 9|0.03650707717266999| -2.1591956435415334|
+---+-------------------+--------------------+
df_2.show()
+---+-------------------+--------------------+
| id| uniform| normal_2|
+---+-------------------+--------------------+
| 11| 0.1982919638208397| 0.06157382353970104|
| 12|0.12714181165849525| 0.3623040918178586|
| 13|0.12030715258495939| 1.0854146699817222|
| 14|0.12131363910425985| -0.5284523629183004|
| 15|0.44292918521277047| -0.4798519469521663|
| 16| 0.8898784253886249| -0.8820294772950535|
| 17| 0.2731073068483362|-0.15116027592854422|
| 18| 0.7784518091224375| -0.3785563841011868|
| 19|0.43776394586845413| 0.47700719174464357|
+---+-------------------+--------------------+
df_3.show()
+---+-----------+--------------------+--------------------+
| id| uniform| normal| normal_2|
+---+-----------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 0| 0.41371265| 0.5888539012978773| null|
| 1| 0.7311719| 0.8645537008427937| null|
| 2| 0.19829196| 0.06157382353970104| null|
| 3| 0.12714182| 0.3623040918178586| null|
| 4| 0.7604318|-0.49575204523675975| null|
| 5|0.120307155| 1.0854146699817222| null|
| 6| 0.12131364| -0.5284523629183004| null|
| 7| 0.44292918| -0.4798519469521663| null|
| 8| 0.88987845| -0.8820294772950535| null|
| 9|0.036507078| -2.1591956435415334| null|
| 11| 0.19829196| null| 0.06157382353970104|
| 12| 0.12714182| null| 0.3623040918178586|
| 13|0.120307155| null| 1.0854146699817222|
| 14| 0.12131364| null| -0.5284523629183004|
| 15| 0.44292918| null| -0.4798519469521663|
| 16| 0.88987845| null| -0.8820294772950535|
| 17| 0.27310732| null|-0.15116027592854422|
| 18| 0.7784518| null| -0.3785563841011868|
| 19| 0.43776396| null| 0.47700719174464357|
+---+-----------+--------------------+--------------------+
Solution 7 - Python
To concatenate multiple pyspark dataframes into one:
from functools import reduce
reduce(lambda x,y:x.union(y), [df_1,df_2])
And you can replace the list of [df_1, df_2] to a list of any length.
Solution 8 - Python
Above answers are very elegant. I have written this function long back where i was also struggling to concatenate two dataframe with distinct columns.
Suppose you have dataframe sdf1 and sdf2
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
from pyspark.sql.types import *
def unequal_union_sdf(sdf1, sdf2):
s_df1_schema = set((x.name, x.dataType) for x in sdf1.schema)
s_df2_schema = set((x.name, x.dataType) for x in sdf2.schema)
for i,j in s_df2_schema.difference(s_df1_schema):
sdf1 = sdf1.withColumn(i,F.lit(None).cast(j))
for i,j in s_df1_schema.difference(s_df2_schema):
sdf2 = sdf2.withColumn(i,F.lit(None).cast(j))
common_schema_colnames = sdf1.columns
sdk = \
sdf1.select(common_schema_colnames).union(sdf2.select(common_schema_colnames))
return sdk
sdf_concat = unequal_union_sdf(sdf1, sdf2)
Solution 9 - Python
This should do it for you ...
from pyspark.sql.types import FloatType
from pyspark.sql.functions import randn, rand, lit, coalesce, col
import pyspark.sql.functions as F
df_1 = sqlContext.range(0, 6)
df_2 = sqlContext.range(3, 10)
df_1 = df_1.select("id", lit("old").alias("source"))
df_2 = df_2.select("id")
df_1.show()
df_2.show()
df_3 = df_1.alias("df_1").join(df_2.alias("df_2"), df_1.id == df_2.id, "outer")\
.select(\
[coalesce(df_1.id, df_2.id).alias("id")] +\
[col("df_1." + c) for c in df_1.columns if c != "id"])\
.sort("id")
df_3.show()
Solution 10 - Python
I would solve this in this way:
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
df_1.createOrReplaceTempView("tab_1")
df_2.createOrReplaceTempView("tab_2")
df_concat=spark.sql("select tab_1.id,tab_1.uniform,tab_1.normal,tab_2.normal_2 from tab_1 tab_1 left join tab_2 tab_2 on tab_1.uniform=tab_2.uniform\
union\
select tab_2.id,tab_2.uniform,tab_1.normal,tab_2.normal_2 from tab_2 tab_2 left join tab_1 tab_1 on tab_1.uniform=tab_2.uniform")
df_concat.show()
Solution 11 - Python
I was trying to implement pandas append functionality in pyspark and what I created a custom function where we can concat 2 or more data frame even they are having different no. of columns only condition is if dataframes have identical name then their datatype should be same/match.
I have written a custom function to merge 2 dataframes.
def append_dfs(df1,df2):
list1 = df1.columns
list2 = df2.columns
for col in list2:
if(col not in list1):
df1 = df1.withColumn(col, F.lit(None))
for col in list1:
if(col not in list2):
df2 = df2.withColumn(col, F.lit(None))
return df1.unionByName(df2)
usage:
-
concate 2 dataframes
final_df = append_dfs(df1,df2)
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- concate more than 2(say3) dataframes
final_df = append_dfs(append_dfs(df1,df2),df3)
example:
df1:
df2:
result=append_dfs(df1,df2)
result :
Hope this will useful.
Solution 12 - Python
Maybe, you want to concatenate more of two Dataframes. I found a issue which use pandas Dataframe conversion.
Suppose you have 3 spark Dataframe who want to concatenate.
The code is the following:
list_dfs = []
list_dfs_ = []
df = spark.read.json('path_to_your_jsonfile.json',multiLine = True)
df2 = spark.read.json('path_to_your_jsonfile2.json',multiLine = True)
df3 = spark.read.json('path_to_your_jsonfile3.json',multiLine = True)
list_dfs.extend([df,df2,df3])
for df in list_dfs :
df = df.select([column for column in df.columns]).toPandas()
list_dfs_.append(df)
list_dfs.clear()
df_ = sqlContext.createDataFrame(pd.concat(list_dfs_))