Cross join runtime error: Use the CROSS JOIN syntax to allow cartesian products between these relations

Question

I have the following function which can be compiled.

  def compare(dbo: Dataset[Cols], ods: Dataset[Cols]) = {
    val j = dbo.crossJoin(ods)
    // Tried val j = dbo.joinWith(ods, func.expr("true")) too
    j.take(5).foreach(r => println(r)) 
  }

But it got a runtime error when submitting to Spark.

Join condition is missing or trivial. (if using joinWith stead of crossJoin)
Use the CROSS JOIN syntax to allow cartesian products between these relations.;
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.CheckCartesianProducts$$anonfun$apply$21.applyOrElse(Optimizer.scala:1067)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.CheckCartesianProducts$$anonfun$apply$21.applyOrElse(Optimizer.scala:1064)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$2.apply(TreeNode.scala:268)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$2.apply(TreeNode.scala:268)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.CurrentOrigin$.withOrigin(TreeNode.scala:70)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDown(TreeNode.scala:267)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:273)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:273)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$4.apply(TreeNode.scala:307)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapProductIterator(TreeNode.scala:188)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapChildren(TreeNode.scala:305)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDown(TreeNode.scala:273)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:273)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:273)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$4.apply(TreeNode.scala:307)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapProductIterator(TreeNode.scala:188)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapChildren(TreeNode.scala:305)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDown(TreeNode.scala:273)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transform(TreeNode.scala:257)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.CheckCartesianProducts.apply(Optimizer.scala:1064)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.CheckCartesianProducts.apply(Optimizer.scala:1049)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules.RuleExecutor$$anonfun$execute$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(RuleExecutor.scala:85)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules.RuleExecutor$$anonfun$execute$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(RuleExecutor.scala:82)
        at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foldl(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:57)
        at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foldLeft(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:66)
        at scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foldLeft(WrappedArray.scala:35)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules.RuleExecutor$$anonfun$execute$1.apply(RuleExecutor.scala:82)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules.RuleExecutor$$anonfun$execute$1.apply(RuleExecutor.scala:74)
        at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:381)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules.RuleExecutor.execute(RuleExecutor.scala:74)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.optimizedPlan$lzycompute(QueryExecution.scala:78)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.optimizedPlan(QueryExecution.scala:78)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.sparkPlan$lzycompute(QueryExecution.scala:84)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.sparkPlan(QueryExecution.scala:80)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.executedPlan$lzycompute(QueryExecution.scala:89)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.executedPlan(QueryExecution.scala:89)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.withTypedCallback(Dataset.scala:2814)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.head(Dataset.scala:2127)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.take(Dataset.scala:2342)
        at MappingPoint$.compare(MappingPoint.scala:43)
        at MappingPoint$.main(MappingPoint.scala:33)
        at MappingPoint.main(MappingPoint.scala)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:743)
        at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:187)
        at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:212)
        at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:126)
        at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)

Answer 1

I found the solution in How to enable Cartesian join in Spark 2.0?.

sparkConf.set("spark.sql.crossJoin.enabled", "true")