clusterBy (DataFrameWriter)

Clusters the data by the given columns to optimize query performance.

Syntax

clusterBy(*cols)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
*cols	str or list	Names of the columns to cluster by.

Returns

DataFrameWriter

Examples

Write a DataFrame into a Parquet file with clustering.

Python

import tempfile
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="clusterBy") as d:
    spark.createDataFrame(
        [{"age": 100, "name": "Alice"}, {"age": 120, "name": "Ruifeng Zheng"}]
    ).write.clusterBy("name").mode("overwrite").format("parquet").save(d)