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to_spark#

Dataset.to_spark(spark: pyspark.sql.SparkSession) → pyspark.sql.DataFrame[source]#

Convert this Dataset into a Spark DataFrame.

Note

This operation will trigger execution of the lazy transformations performed on this dataset.

Time complexity: O(dataset size / parallelism)

Parameters:

spark – A SparkSession, which must be created by RayDP (Spark-on-Ray).

Returns:

A Spark DataFrame created from this dataset.

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