Write to multiple outputs by key Spark - one Spark job

Question

How can you write to multiple outputs dependent on the key using Spark in a single Job.

Related: Write to multiple outputs by key Scalding Hadoop, one MapReduce Job<

Answer 1

I would do it like this which is scalable

import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable

import org.apache.spark._
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._

import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.MultipleTextOutputFormat

class RDDMultipleTextOutputFormat extends MultipleTextOutputFormat[Any, Any] {
  override def generateActualKey(key: Any, value: Any): Any = 
    NullWritable.get()

  override def generateFileNameForKeyValue(key: Any, value: Any, name: String): String = 
    key.asInstanceOf[String]
}

object Split {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("Split" + args(1))
    val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
    sc.textFile("input/path")
    .map(a => (k, v)) // Your own implementation
    .partitionBy(new HashPartitioner(num))
    .saveAsHadoopFile("output/path", classOf[String], classOf[String],
      classOf[RDDMultipleTextOutputFormat])
    spark.stop()
  }
}

Just saw similar answer above, but actually we don't need customized partitions. The MultipleTextOutputFormat will create file for each key. It is ok that multiple record with same keys fall into the same partition.

new HashPartitioner(num), where the num is the partition number you want. In case you have a big number of different keys, you can set number to big. In this case, each partition will not open too many hdfs file handlers.