How to slice and sum elements of array column?

Question

I would like to sum (or perform other aggregate functions too) on the array column using SparkSQL.

I have a table as

+-------+-------+-         


        

Answer 1

A possible approach it to use explode() on your Array column and consequently aggregate the output by unique key. For example:

import sqlContext.implicits._
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._

(mytable
  .withColumn("emp_sum",
    explode($"emp_details"))
  .groupBy("dept_nm")
  .agg(sum("emp_sum")).show)
+-------+------------+
|dept_nm|sum(emp_sum)|
+-------+------------+
|Finance|        1500|
|     IT|         180|
+-------+------------+

To select only specific values in your array, we can work with the answer from the linked question and apply it with a slight modification:

val slice = udf((array : Seq[Int], from : Int, to : Int) => array.slice(from,to))

(mytable
  .withColumn("slice", 
    slice($"emp_details", 
      lit(0), 
      lit(3)))
  .withColumn("emp_sum",
    explode($"slice"))
  .groupBy("dept_nm")
  .agg(sum("emp_sum")).show)
+-------+------------+
|dept_nm|sum(emp_sum)|
+-------+------------+
|Finance|         600|
|     IT|          80|
+-------+------------+

Data:

val data = Seq((10, "Finance", Array(100,200,300,400,500)),
               (20, "IT", Array(10,20,50,100)))
val mytable = sc.parallelize(data).toDF("dept_id", "dept_nm","emp_details")