Can anyone explain fold operation in Spark

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Jul 26, 2018 in Apache Spark by shams
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  • fold() is an action. It is wide operation (i.e. shuffle data across multiple partitions and output a single value)
  • It takes function as an input which has two parameters of the same type and outputs a single value of the input type.
  • It is similar to reduce but has one more argument 'ZERO VALUE' (say initial value) which will be used in the initial call on each partition.

def fold(zeroValue: T)(op: (T, T) ⇒ T): T

Aggregate the elements of each partition, and then the results for all the partitions, using a given associative function and a neutral "zero value". The function op(t1, t2) is allowed to modify t1 and return it as its result value to avoid object allocation; however, it should not modify t2.

This behaves somewhat differently from fold operations implemented for non-distributed collections in functional languages like Scala. This fold operation may be applied to partitions individually, and then fold those results into the final result, rather than apply the fold to each element sequentially in some defined ordering. For functions that are not commutative, the result may differ from that of a fold applied to a non-distributed collection.

zeroValue: The initial value for the accumulated result of each partition for the op operator, and also the initial value for the combine results from different partitions for the op operator - this will typically be the neutral element (e.g. Nil for list concatenation or 0 for summation)
Op: an operator used to both accumulate results within a partition and combine results from different partitions

Example :
val rdd1 = sc.parallelize(List(1,2,3,4,5),3)
rdd1.fold(5)(_+_)

Output :
Int = 35

answered Jul 27, 2018 by zombie
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Fold in spark:

Fold is a very powerful operation in spark which allows you to calculate many important values in O(n) time. If you are familiar with Scala collection it will be like using fold operation on a collection. Even if you not used fold in Scala, this post will make you comfortable in using fold.

Syntax
def fold[T](acc:T)((acc,value) => acc)
The above is kind of high-level view of fold API. It has the following three things:

  • T is the data type of RDD
  • acc is accumulator of type T which will be return value of the fold operation
  • A function , which will be called for each element in rdd with previous accumulator

Examples of fold:

Finding max in a given RDD


Let’s first build a RDD

val sparkContext = new SparkContext("local", "functional")
val employeeData = List(("Jack",1000.0),("Bob",2000.0),("Carl",7000.0))
val employeeRDD = sparkContext.makeRDD(employeeData)


Now we want to find an employee, with maximum salary. We can do that using fold.

To use fold we need a start value. The following code defines a dummy employee as starting accumulator.

val dummyEmployee = ("dummy",0.0);


Now using fold, we can find the employee with maximum salary.

val maxSalaryEmployee = employeeRDD.fold(dummyEmployee)((acc,employee) => { 
if(acc._2 < employee._2) employee else acc})
println("employee with maximum salary is"+maxSalaryEmployee)

answered Aug 3, 2018 by nitinrawat895
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Fold in spark

  • Fold is a very powerful operation in spark which allows you to calculate many important values in O(n) time. 
  • If you are familiar with Scala collection it will be like using fold operation on collection. 
  • Even if you not used fold in Scala, this post will make you comfortable in using fold.

Syntax

def fold[T](acc:T)((acc,value) => acc)
The above is kind of high level view of fold api. It has following three things

  • T is the data type of RDD
  • acc is accumulator of type T which will be return value of the fold operation
  • A function , which will be called for each element in rdd with previous accumulator.

Example:

val sparkContext = new SparkContext("local", "functional")
val employeeData = List(("Jack",1000.0),("Bob",2000.0),("Carl",7000.0))
val employeeRDD = sparkContext.makeRDD(employeeData)
val dummyEmployee = ("dummy",0.0)
val maxSalaryEmployee = employeeRDD.fold(dummyEmployee)((acc,employee) => { 
if(acc._2 < employee._2) employee else acc})
println("employee with maximum salary is"+maxSalaryEmployee)​

answered Aug 23, 2018 by samarth295
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