orc (DataFrameWriter)

Saves the content of the DataFrame in ORC format at the specified path.

Syntax

orc(path, mode=None, partitionBy=None, compression=None)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
path	str	The path in any Hadoop-supported file system.
mode	str, optional	The behavior when data already exists. Accepted values are 'append', 'overwrite', 'ignore', and 'error' or 'errorifexists' (default).
partitionBy	str or list, optional	Names of partitioning columns.
compression	str, optional	The compression codec to use.

Returns

None

Examples

Write a DataFrame into an ORC file and read it back.

import tempfile
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="orc") as d:
    spark.createDataFrame(
        [{"age": 100, "name": "Alice"}]
    ).write.orc(d, mode="overwrite")

    spark.read.format("orc").load(d).show()
    # +---+------------+
    # |age|        name|
    # +---+------------+
    # |100|Alice|
    # +---+------------+