How to pivot Spark DataFrame?

Question

I am starting to use Spark DataFrames and I need to be able to pivot the data to create multiple columns out of 1 column with multiple rows. There is built in functionality

Answer 1

There is simple and elegant solution.

scala> spark.sql("select * from k_tags limit 10").show()
+---------------+-------------+------+
|           imsi|         name| value|
+---------------+-------------+------+
|246021000000000|          age|    37|
|246021000000000|       gender|Female|
|246021000000000|         arpu|    22|
|246021000000000|   DeviceType| Phone|
|246021000000000|DataAllowance|   6GB|
+---------------+-------------+------+

scala> spark.sql("select * from k_tags limit 10").groupBy($"imsi").pivot("name").agg(min($"value")).show()
+---------------+-------------+----------+---+----+------+
|           imsi|DataAllowance|DeviceType|age|arpu|gender|
+---------------+-------------+----------+---+----+------+
|246021000000000|          6GB|     Phone| 37|  22|Female|
|246021000000001|          1GB|     Phone| 72|  10|  Male|
+---------------+-------------+----------+---+----+------+