Hello Spark Developers, I have a question on Spark Join I am doing.
I have a full load data from RDBMS and storing at HDFS let's say, val historyDF = spark.read.parquet(*"/home/test/transaction-line-item"*) and I am getting changed data at seperate hdfs path,let's say; val deltaDF = spark.read.parquet("/home/test/transaction-line-item-delta") Now I would like to take rows from deltaDF and ignore only those records from historyDF, and write to some MySQL table. Once I am done with writing to MySQL table, I would like to update */home/test/transaction-line-item *as overwrite. Now I can't just overwrite because lazy evaluation and DAG structure unless write to somewhere else and then write back as overwrite. val syncDataDF = historyDF.join(deltaDF.select("TRANSACTION_BY_LINE_ID", "sys_change_column"), Seq("TRANSACTION_BY_LINE_ID"), "left_outer").filter(deltaDF.col("sys_change_column").isNull) .drop(deltaDF.col("sys_change_column")) val mergedDataDF = syncDataDF.union(deltaDF) I believe, Without doing *union *, only with Join this can be done. Please suggest best approach. As I can't write back *mergedDataDF * to the path of historyDF, because from there I am only reading. What I am doing is to write at temp path and then read from there and write back! Which is bad Idea, I need suggestion here... mergedDataDF.write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).parquet("home/test/transaction-line-item-temp/") val tempMergedDF = spark.read.parquet("home/test/transaction-line-item-temp/") tempMergedDF.write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).parquet("*/home/test/transaction-line-item"*) Please suggest me best approach. Thanks