spark notes
  • Introduction
  • Databricks
  • Concepts
  • Spark Execution Flow
    • SparkContext and SparkSession
  • Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD)
    • Caching
    • Pair RDDs
    • Transformations
      • Depedency Resolution
    • Actions
    • Persistence
    • RDD lineage
    • Types of RDDs
    • Loading Data into RDDs
    • Data Locality with RDDs
    • How Many Partitions Does An RDD Have
  • Spark job submission breakdown
  • Why Cluster Manager
  • SparkContext and its components
  • Spark Architecture
    • Stages
    • Tasks
    • Executors
    • RDD
    • DAG
    • Jobs
    • Partitions
  • Spark Deployment Modes
  • Running Modes
  • Spark Execution Flow
  • DataFrames, Datasets,RDDs
  • SparkSQL
    • Architecture
    • Spark Session
  • Where Does Map Reduce Does not Fit
  • Actions
    • reduceByKey
    • count
    • collect, take, top, and first Actions
    • take
    • top
    • first
    • The reduce and fold Actions
  • DataSets
  • Spark Application Garbage Collector
  • How Mapreduce works in spark
  • Notes
  • Scala
  • Spark 2.0
  • Types Of RDDs
    • MapPartitionsRDD
  • Spark UI
  • Optimization
    • Tungsten
  • Spark Streaming
    • Notes
    • Flow
  • FlatMap - Different Variations
  • Examples
  • Testing Spark
  • Passing functions to Spark
  • CONFIGURATION, MONITORING, AND TUNING
  • References
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  1. Actions

take

The take action returns the first n elements of an RDD. The elements taken are not in any particular order; in fact, the elements returned from a take action are non-deterministic, meaning they can differ if the same action is run again (particularly in a fully distributed environment).

There is a similar Spark function, takeOrdered, which takes the first n elements ordered based upon a key supplied by a key function.

For RDDs that span more than one partition, take scans one partition and uses the results from that partition to estimate the number of additional partitions needed to satisfy the number requested.

RDD.take(n)

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