We improved this in 1.4. Adding 100 columns took 4s on my laptop.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7276
Still not the fastest, but much faster.
scala> Seq((1, 2)).toDF("a", "b")
res6: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [a: int, b: int]
scala>
scala> val start = System.nanoTime
start: Long = 1433274299441224000
scala> for (i <- 1 to 100) {
| df = df.withColumn("n" + i, org.apache.spark.sql.functions.lit(0))
| }
scala> val end = System.nanoTime
end: Long = 1433274303250091000
scala>
scala> println((end - start) / 1000 / 1000 / 1000)
3
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:34 PM, zsampson <zsamp...@palantir.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm seeing extreme slowness in withColumn when it's used in a loop. I'm
> running this code:
>
> for (int i = 0; i < NUM_ITERATIONS ++i) {
> df = df.withColumn("col"+i, new Column(new Literal(i,
> DataTypes.IntegerType)));
> }
>
> where df is initially a trivial dataframe. Here are the results of running
> with different values of NUM_ITERATIONS:
>
> iterations time
> 25 3s
> 50 11s
> 75 31s
> 100 76s
> 125 159s
> 150 283s
>
> When I update the DataFrame by manually copying/appending to the column
> array and using DataFrame.select, it runs in about half the time, but this
> is still untenable at any significant number of iterations.
>
> Any insight?
>
>
>
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