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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 275

Tumbling Time Window Aggregations

How can we aggregate real-time transaction counts into non-overlapping, contiguous 5-minute time windows?

Productionโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 840 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How can we aggregate real-time transaction counts into non-overlapping, contiguous 5-minute time windows?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

groupBy(window('event_timestamp', '5 minutes'), 'store_id') groups events into fixed, non-overlapping temporal buckets.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Real-time store traffic monitoring, infrastructure error rate tracking, and 5-minute financial volume metrics.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
df_tumbling = df_watermarked.groupBy(window(col("event_timestamp"), "5 minutes"), col("store_id")).agg(sum("amount").alias("window_sales"), count("transaction_id").alias("tx_count"))

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Tumbling Time Window Aggregations.

  • โœ“ window() tumbling specification
  • โœ“ Non-overlapping time buckets
  • โœ“ Streaming window aggregation