How to add corresponding Integer values in 2 different DataFrames - scala

Question

I have two DataFrames in my code with exact same dimensions, let's say 1,000,000 X 50. I need to add corresponding values in both dataframes. How to achieve that.
One option would be to add another column with ids, union both DataFrames and then use reduceByKey. But is there any other more elegent way?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Your approach is good. Another option can be two take the RDD and zip those together and then iterate over those to sum the columns and create a new dataframe using any of the original dataframe schemas.
Assuming the data types for all the columns are integer, this code snippets should work. Please note that, this has been done in spark 2.1.0.
import spark.implicits._
val a: DataFrame = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(
(1, 2),
(3, 6)
)).toDF("column_1", "column_2")
val b: DataFrame = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(
(3, 4),
(1, 5)
)).toDF("column_1", "column_2")
// Merge rows
val rows = a.rdd.zip(b.rdd).map{
case (rowLeft, rowRight) => {
val totalColumns = rowLeft.schema.fields.size
val summedRow = for(i <- (0 until totalColumns)) yield rowLeft.getInt(i) + rowRight.getInt(i)
Row.fromSeq(summedRow)
}
}
// Create new data frame
val ab: DataFrame = spark.createDataFrame(rows, a.schema) // use any of the schemas
ab.show()
Update:
So, I tried to experiment with the performance of my solution vs yours. I tested with 100000 rows and each row has 50 columns. In case of your approach it has 51 columns, the extra one is for the ID column. In a single machine(no cluster), my solution seems to work a bit faster.
The union and group by approach takes about 5598 milliseconds.
Where as my solution takes about 5378 milliseconds.
My assumption is the first solution takes a bit more time because of the union operation of the two dataframes.
Here are the methods which I created for testing the approaches.
def option_1()(implicit spark: SparkSession): Unit = {
import spark.implicits._
val a: DataFrame = getDummyData(withId = true)
val b: DataFrame = getDummyData(withId = true)
val allData = a.union(b)
val result = allData.groupBy($"id").agg(allData.columns.collect({ case col if col != "id" => (col, "sum") }).toMap)
println(result.count())
// result.show()
}
def option_2()(implicit spark: SparkSession): Unit = {
val a: DataFrame = getDummyData()
val b: DataFrame = getDummyData()
// Merge rows
val rows = a.rdd.zip(b.rdd).map {
case (rowLeft, rowRight) => {
val totalColumns = rowLeft.schema.fields.size
val summedRow = for (i <- (0 until totalColumns)) yield rowLeft.getInt(i) + rowRight.getInt(i)
Row.fromSeq(summedRow)
}
}
// Create new data frame
val result: DataFrame = spark.createDataFrame(rows, a.schema) // use any of the schemas
println(result.count())
// result.show()
}