How to append data to an existing parquet file

Question

I\'m using the following code to create ParquetWriter and to write records to it.

ParquetWriter parquetWriter = new ParquetWriter(path,          


        

Answer 1

There is a Spark API SaveMode called append: https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.4.0/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/SaveMode.html which I believe solves your problem.

Example of use:

df.write.mode('append').parquet('parquet_data_file')

Answer 2

Parquet is a columnar file, It optimizes writing all columns together. If any edit it requires to rewrite the file.

From Wiki

A column-oriented database serializes all of the values of a column together, then the values of the next column, and so on. For our example table, the data would be stored in this fashion:

10:001,12:002,11:003,22:004;
Smith:001,Jones:002,Johnson:003,Jones:004;
Joe:001,Mary:002,Cathy:003,Bob:004;
40000:001,50000:002,44000:003,55000:004;

Some links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS

https://parquet.apache.org/