Caching and uncaching tables
In the lesson we learned that tables can be cached. Whereas a dataframe is cached using a cache or persist operation, a table is cached using a cacheTable operation.
A table called table1 is available.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Introduction to Spark SQL in Python
Instruções do exercício
- List the tables with the
listTables()method. - Cache
table1and confirm that it is cached. - Uncache
table1and confirm that it is uncached.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# List the tables
print("Tables:\n", spark.____.____())
# Cache table1 and Confirm that it is cached
spark.catalog.____('table1')
print("table1 is cached: ", spark.catalog.____('table1'))
# Uncache table1 and confirm that it is uncached
spark.catalog.____('table1')
print("table1 is cached: ", spark.catalog.____('table1'))