Spark: subtract two DataFrames

Question

In Spark version 1.2.0 one could use subtract with 2 SchemRDDs to end up with only the different content from the first one

val onlyNewData = todaySchemaRDD.subtract(yesterdaySchemaRDD)

onlyNewData contains the rows in todaySchemRDD that do not exist in yesterdaySchemaRDD.

How can this be achieved with DataFrames in Spark version 1.3.0?

Answer 1

I tried subtract, but the result was not consistent. If I run df1.subtract(df2), not all lines of df1 are shown on the result dataframe, probably due distinct cited on the docs.

This solved my problem: df1.exceptAll(df2)

Answer 2

In pyspark DOCS it would be subtract

df1.subtract(df2)

Answer 3

According to the api docs, doing:

dataFrame1.except(dataFrame2)

will return a new DataFrame containing rows in dataFrame1 but not in dataframe2.