How to append data to an existing parquet file

Question

I'm using the following code to create ParquetWriter and to write records to it.

ParquetWriter<GenericRecord> parquetWriter = new ParquetWriter(path, writeSupport, CompressionCodecName.SNAPPY, BLOCK_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);

final GenericRecord record = new GenericData.Record(avroSchema);

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parquetWriter.write(record);

But it only allows to create new files(at the specfied path). Is there a way to append data to an existing parquet file (at path)? Caching parquetWriter is not feasible in my case.

Answer 1

There is a Spark API SaveMode called append: https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.4.0/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/SaveMode.html which I believe solves your problem.

Example of use:

df.write.mode('append').parquet('parquet_data_file')