Why does sortBy transformation trigger a Spark job

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As far as I know only spark Actions can trigger a spark job, not any transformation as Spark follows lazy evaluation.

So when I execute the sortBy command, the spark web UI shows it as a spark job trigger.

Any idea why it's happening? 

May 8, 2018 in Apache Spark by shams
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Actually, sortBy/sortByKey depends on RangePartitioner (JVM). So when you run a sortBy/sortByKey, the partitioner is initialized which samples input RDD to compute partition boundaries. The actual sorting will happen only when an action is invoked.

The job in Web UI reflects this process.
answered May 8, 2018 by kurt_cobain
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