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PYSPARK • LESSON 221

Exact Full-Row Deduplication

How can we remove exact duplicate records where every single column matches across rows?

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🤔 THE QUESTION

How can we remove exact duplicate records where every single column matches across rows?

💡 WHAT IS IT?

distinct() triggers a distributed shuffle across all partition hashes to retain exactly one unique instance per row.

🎯 WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Cleansing raw CSV or Parquet files inadvertently re-ingested during ETL replay.

💻 EXAMPLE
df_unique = df.distinct()

🎯 Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Exact Full-Row Deduplication.

  • distinct() method
  • Full-row duplicate removal
  • Distributed hash deduplication