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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 221

Exact Full-Row Deduplication

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

Advancedโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 800 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

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

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

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

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

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

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
df_unique = df.distinct()

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

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

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