Reduce a key-value pair into a key-list pair with Apache Spark

Question

I am writing a Spark application and want to combine a set of Key-Value pairs (K, V1), (K, V2), ..., (K, Vn) into one Key-Multivalue pair (K, [V1, V2, ...

Answer 1

You can use the RDD groupByKey method.

Input:

data = [(1, 'a'), (1, 'b'), (2, 'c'), (2, 'd'), (2, 'e'), (3, 'f')]
rdd = sc.parallelize(data)
result = rdd.groupByKey().collect()

Output:

[(1, ['a', 'b']), (2, ['c', 'd', 'e']), (3, ['f'])]