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Josh Wills commented on CRUNCH-485: ----------------------------------- Strictly speaking, groupByKey doesn't impose sorting unless you pass a GroupingOptions object with the requireSortedKeys() option enabled; if you pass that in to your example, does it work as expected? I suppose what I'm saying here is that it doesn't seem like Crunch-on-Spark should do something that Spark wouldn't do by default, but I'm happy to debate that topic on the list. > groupByKey on Spark incorrect if key is Avro record with defined sort order > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CRUNCH-485 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-485 > Project: Crunch > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core > Affects Versions: 0.11.0 > Reporter: Tycho Lamerigts > Assignee: Josh Wills > > GroupByKey on Spark is incorrect if the key type is an Avro record with > defined sort order (http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.7/spec.html#order). > Instead, it serializes the entire avro record to a binary blob (byte array) > and groups identical blobs. This is wrong. By contrast, groupByKey on > MapReduce works as expected, so it does take Avro's sort order into account. > The culprit is probably the following code from > org.apache.crunch.impl.spark.collect.PGroupedTableImpl#getJavaRDDLikeInternal > {code} > groupedRDD = parentRDD.map(new PairMapFunction(ptype.getOutputMapFn(), > runtime.getRuntimeContext())) > .mapToPair(new MapOutputFunction(keySerde, valueSerde)) > .groupByKey(numPartitions); > {code} > where MapOutputFunction simply converts the entire key object to a binary > blob, without taking sort order into account. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)