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Cache Spark Dataframes for Jupyter

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Defines a %%sparkcache cell magic in the IPython notebook to cache DataFrame and outputs of long-lasting computations in a persistent Parquet file in Hadoop. Useful when some computations in a notebook are long and you want to easily save the results in a file.

Based on ipycache module.

Installation

  • pip install isparkcache

Usage

  • In IPython/Jupyter:

    %load_ext isparkcache
  • Then, create a cell with:

    %%sparkcache df1 df2
    
    df = ...
    df1 = sql.createDataFrame(df)
    df2 = sql.createDataFrame(df)
  • When you execute this cell the first time, the code is executed, and the dataframes df1 and df2 are saved in /user/$USER/sparkcache/mysparkapplication/df1 and /user/$USER/sparkcache/mysparkapplication/df2. When you execute this cell again, the code is skipped, the dataframes are loaded from the Parquet and injected into the namespace, and the outputs are restored in the notebook.

  • Use the --force or -f option to force the cell’s execution and overwrite the file.

  • Use the --read or -r option to prevent the cell’s execution and always load the variables from the cache. An exception is raised if the file does not exist.

  • Use the --cachedir or -d option to specify the cache directory. Default directory: /user/$USER/sparkcache. You can specify a default directory in the IPython configuration file in your profile (typically in ~\.ipython\profile_default\ipython_config.py) by adding the following line:

    c.SparkCacheMagics.cachedir = “/path/to/mycache”

If both a default cache directory and the --cachedir option are given, the latter is used.

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