Enrico Minack created SPARK-38591:
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Summary: Add flatMapSortedGroups to KeyValueGroupedDataset
Key: SPARK-38591
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-38591
Project: Spark
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: SQL
Affects Versions: 3.3.0
Reporter: Enrico Minack
The existing method {{KeyValueGroupedDataset.flatMapGroups}} provides an
iterator of rows for each group key. If user code would requires those rows in
a particular order, that iterator would have to be sorted first, which is
against the idea of an iterator in the first place. For groups that do not fit
into memory of one executor, this approach does not work.
[org.apache.spark.sql.KeyValueGroupedDataset|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/47485a3c2df3201c838b939e82d5b26332e2d858/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/KeyValueGroupedDataset.scala#L134-L137]:
{noformat}
Internally, the implementation will spill to disk if any given group is too
large to fit into
memory. However, users must take care to avoid materializing the whole iterator
for a group
(for example, by calling `toList`) unless they are sure that this is possible
given the memory
constraints of their cluster.
{noformat}
The implementation of {{KeyValueGroupedDataset.flatMapGroups}} already sorts
each partition according to the group key. By additionally sorting by some data
columns, the iterator can be guaranteed to provide some order.
A new method {{KeyValueGroupedDataset.flatMapSortedGroups}} could allow to
define order within the groups.
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