Let's say I have a data structure like this where ts is some timestamp
case class Record(ts: Long, id: Int, value: Int)
Given a large number of these records I want to end up with the record with the highest timestamp for each id. Using the RDD api I think the following code gets the job done:
def findLatest(records: RDD[Record])(implicit spark: SparkSession) = {
records.keyBy(_.id).reduceByKey{
(x, y) => if(x.ts > y.ts) x else y
}.values
}
Likewise this is my attempt with datasets:
def findLatest(records: Dataset[Record])(implicit spark: SparkSession) = {
records.groupByKey(_.id).mapGroups{
case(id, records) => {
records.reduceLeft((x,y) => if (x.ts > y.ts) x else y)
}
}
}
I've being trying to work out how to achieve something similar with dataframes but to no avail- I realise I can do the grouping with:
records.groupBy($"id")
But that gives me a RelationGroupedDataSet and it's not clear to me what aggregation function I need to write to achieve what I want- all example aggregations I've seen appear to focus on returning just a single column being aggregated rather than the whole row.
Is it possible to achieve this using dataframes?