Doesn't iter still need to fit entirely into memory? On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com> wrote:
> rdd.mapPartitions { iter => > val grouped = iter.grouped(batchSize) > for (group <- grouped) { ... } > } > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Corey Nolet <cjno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think the word "partition" here is a tad different than the term >> "partition" that we use in Spark. Basically, I want something similar to >> Guava's Iterables.partition [1], that is, If I have an RDD[People] and I >> want to run an algorithm that can be optimized by working on 30 people at a >> time, I'd like to be able to say: >> >> val rdd: RDD[People] = ..... >> val partitioned: RDD[Seq[People]] = rdd.partition(30).... >> >> I also don't want any shuffling- everything can still be processed >> locally. >> >> >> [1] >> http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/Iterables.html#partition(java.lang.Iterable,%20int) >> > >