How to store and read data from Spark PairRDD - apache-spark

Question

Spark PairRDD has the option to save the file.
JavaRDD<String> baseRDD = context.parallelize(Arrays.asList("This", "is", "dummy", "data"));
JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> myPairRDD =
baseRDD.mapToPair(new PairFunction<String, String, Integer>() {
#Override
public Tuple2<String, Integer> call(String input) throws Exception {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return new Tuple2<String, Integer>(input, input.length());
}
});
myPairRDD.saveAsTextFile("path");
Spark context textfile reads the data to JavaRDD only.
How to reconstruct the PairRDD directly from source?
Note:
Possible approach is to read the data to JavaRDD<String> and construct JavaPairRDD.
But with huge data it is taking considerable amount of resources.
Storing this intermediate file in non-text format is also fine.
Execution environment - JRE 1.7

Answer 1

You can save them as object file if you don't mind result file not being human readable.
save file:
myPairRDD.saveAsObjectFile(path);
and then you can read pairs like this:
JavaPairRDD.fromJavaRDD(sc.objectFile(path))
EDIT:
working example:
JavaRDD<String> rdd = sc.parallelize(Lists.newArrayList("1", "2"));
rdd.mapToPair(p -> new Tuple2<>(p, p)).saveAsObjectFile("c://example");
JavaPairRDD<String, String> pairRDD
= JavaPairRDD.fromJavaRDD(sc.objectFile("c://example"));
pairRDD.collect().forEach(System.out::println);

Answer 2

Storing the Spark PairRDD in Sequence file works well in this scenario.
JavaRDD<String> baseRDD = context.parallelize(Arrays.asList("This", "is", "dummy", "data"));
JavaPairRDD<Text, IntWritable> myPairRDD = baseRDD.mapToPair(new PairFunction<String, Text, IntWritable>() {
#Override
public Tuple2<Text, IntWritable> call(String input) throws Exception {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return new Tuple2<Text, IntWritable>(new Text(input), new IntWritable(input.length()));
}
});
myPairRDD.saveAsHadoopFile(path , Text.class, IntWritable.class,
SequenceFileOutputFormat.class);
JavaPairRDD<Text, IntWritable> newbaseRDD =
context.sequenceFile(path , Text.class, IntWritable.class);
// Verify the data
System.out.println(myPairRDD.collect());
newbaseRDD.foreach(new VoidFunction<Tuple2<Text, IntWritable>>() {
#Override
public void call(Tuple2<Text, IntWritable> arg0) throws Exception {
System.out.println(arg0);
}
});
As suggested by user52045, following code works with Java 8.
myPairRDD.saveAsObjectFile(path);
JavaPairRDD<String, String> objpairRDD = JavaPairRDD.fromJavaRDD(context.objectFile(path));
objpairRDD.collect().forEach(System.out::println);

Answer 3

Example using Scala:
Reading text file & save it as Object file format
val ordersRDD = sc.textFile("/home/cloudera/orders.txt");
ordersRDD.count();
ordersRDD.saveAsObjectFile("orders_save_obj");
Reading object file & save it as text file format:
val ordersRDD = sc.objectFile[String]("/home/cloudera/orders.txt");
ordersRDD.count();
ordersRDD.saveAsTextFile("orders_save_text");