Spark SQL Avro Library

A library for querying Avro data with Spark SQL.

Requirements

This library requires Spark 1.2+

Linking

You can link against this library in your program at the following coordiates:

groupId: com.databricks.spark
artifactId: spark-avro_2.10
version: 0.1

The spark-avro jar file can also be added to a Spark using the --jars command line option. For example, to include it when starting the spark shell:

$ bin/spark-shell --jars spark-avro_2.10-0.1.jar

Spark assembly has been built with Hive, including Datanucleus jars on classpath
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Using Scala version 2.10.4 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.7.0_45)
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.
2014-10-30 13:21:11.442 java[4635:1903] Unable to load realm info from SCDynamicStore
Spark context available as sc.

Features

These examples use an avro file available for download here:

$ wget https://github.com/databricks/spark-avro/raw/master/src/test/resources/episodes.avro

Scala API

You can use the library by loading the implicits from com.databricks.spark.avro._.

scala> import org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext

scala> val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)

scala> import com.databricks.spark.avro._

scala> val episodes = sqlContext.avroFile("episodes.avro")
episodes: org.apache.spark.sql.SchemaRDD = 
SchemaRDD[0] at RDD at SchemaRDD.scala:104
== Query Plan ==
== Physical Plan ==
PhysicalRDD [title#0,air_date#1,doctor#2], MappedRDD[2] at map at AvroRelation.scala:54

scala> import sqlContext._
import sqlContext._

scala> episodes.select('title').collect()
res0: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([The Eleventh Hour], [The Doctor's Wife], [Horror of Fang Rock], [An Unearthly Child], [The Mysterious Planet], [Rose], [The Power of the Daleks], [Castrolava])

SQL API

Avro data can be queried in pure SQL by registering the data as a temporary table.

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE episodes
USING com.databricks.spark.avro
OPTIONS (path "episodes.avro")

Java API

Avro files can be read using static functions in AvroUtils.

import com.databricks.spark.avro.AvroUtils;

JavaSchemaRDD episodes = AvroUtils.avroFile(sqlContext, "episodes.avro");

Building From Source

This library is built with SBT, which is automatically downloaded by the included shell script. To build a JAR file simply run sbt/sbt package from the project root.