Boosting Spark Union Operator Performance: Optimization Tips for Improved Query Speed

Demystify Spark Performance in Union Operator

Chengzhi Zhao
Towards Data Science
6 min readApr 20, 2023

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The union operator is one of the set operators to merge two input data frames into one. Union is a convenient operation in Apache Spark for combining rows with the same order of columns. One frequently used case is applying different…

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