.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one .. or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file .. distributed with this work for additional information .. regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file .. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the .. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance .. with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at .. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, .. software distributed under the License is distributed on an .. "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY .. KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the .. specific language governing permissions and limitations .. under the License. .. currentmodule:: pyarrow.compute .. _compute: ================= Compute Functions ================= Arrow supports logical compute operations over inputs of possibly varying types. The standard compute operations are provided by the :mod:`pyarrow.compute` module and can be used directly: .. code-block:: python >>> import pyarrow as pa >>> import pyarrow.compute as pc >>> a = pa.array([1, 1, 2, 3]) >>> pc.sum(a) The grouped aggregation functions raise an exception instead and need to be used through the :meth:`pyarrow.Table.group_by` capabilities. See :ref:`py-grouped-aggrs` for more details. Standard Compute Functions ========================== Many compute functions support both array (chunked or not) and scalar inputs, but some will mandate either. For example, ``sort_indices`` requires its first and only input to be an array. Below are a few simple examples: .. code-block:: python >>> a = pa.array([1, 1, 2, 3]) >>> b = pa.array([4, 1, 2, 8]) >>> pc.equal(a, b) [ false, true, true, false ] >>> x, y = pa.scalar(7.8), pa.scalar(9.3) >>> pc.multiply(x, y) If you are using a compute function which returns more than one value, results will be returned as a ``StructScalar``. You can extract the individual values by calling the :meth:`pyarrow.StructScalar.values` method: .. code-block:: python >>> a = pa.array([1, 1, 2, 3]) >>> pc.min_max(a) >>> a, b = pc.min_max(a).values() >>> a >>> b These functions can do more than just element-by-element operations. Here is an example of sorting a table: .. code-block:: python >>> t = pa.table({'x':[1,2,3],'y':[3,2,1]}) >>> i = pc.sort_indices(t, sort_keys=[('y', 'ascending')]) >>> i [ 2, 1, 0 ] For a complete list of the compute functions that PyArrow provides you can refer to :ref:`api.compute` reference. .. seealso:: :ref:`Available compute functions (C++ documentation) `. .. _py-grouped-aggrs: Grouped Aggregations ==================== PyArrow supports grouped aggregations over :class:`pyarrow.Table` through the :meth:`pyarrow.Table.group_by` method. The method will return a grouping declaration to which the hash aggregation functions can be applied: .. code-block:: python >>> t = pa.table([ ... pa.array(["a", "a", "b", "b", "c"]), ... pa.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]), ... ], names=["keys", "values"]) >>> t.group_by("keys").aggregate([("values", "sum")]) pyarrow.Table keys: string values_sum: int64 ---- keys: [["a","b","c"]] values_sum: [[3,7,5]] The ``"sum"`` aggregation passed to the ``aggregate`` method in the previous example is the ``hash_sum`` compute function. Multiple aggregations can be performed at the same time by providing them to the ``aggregate`` method: .. code-block:: python >>> t = pa.table([ ... pa.array(["a", "a", "b", "b", "c"]), ... pa.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]), ... ], names=["keys", "values"]) >>> t.group_by("keys").aggregate([ ... ("values", "sum"), ... ("keys", "count") ... ]) pyarrow.Table keys: string values_sum: int64 keys_count: int64 ---- keys: [["a","b","c"]] values_sum: [[3,7,5]] keys_count: [[2,2,1]] Aggregation options can also be provided for each aggregation function, for example we can use :class:`CountOptions` to change how we count null values: .. code-block:: python >>> table_with_nulls = pa.table([ ... pa.array(["a", "a", "a"]), ... pa.array([1, None, None]) ... ], names=["keys", "values"]) >>> table_with_nulls.group_by(["keys"]).aggregate([ ... ("values", "count", pc.CountOptions(mode="all")) ... ]) pyarrow.Table keys: string values_count: int64 ---- keys: [["a"]] values_count: [[3]] >>> table_with_nulls.group_by(["keys"]).aggregate([ ... ("values", "count", pc.CountOptions(mode="only_valid")) ... ]) pyarrow.Table keys: string values_count: int64 ---- keys: [["a"]] values_count: [[1]] Following is a list of all supported grouped aggregation functions. You can use them with or without the ``"hash_"`` prefix. .. arrow-computefuncs:: :kind: hash_aggregate .. _py-joins: Table and Dataset Joins ======================= Both :class:`.Table` and :class:`.Dataset` support join operations through :meth:`.Table.join` and :meth:`.Dataset.join` methods. The methods accept a right table or dataset that will be joined to the initial one and one or more keys that should be used from the two entities to perform the join. By default a ``left outer join`` is performed, but it's possible to ask for any of the supported join types: * left semi * right semi * left anti * right anti * inner * left outer * right outer * full outer A basic join can be performed just by providing a table and a key on which the join should be performed: .. code-block:: python >>> table1 = pa.table({'id': [1, 2, 3], ... 'year': [2020, 2022, 2019]}) >>> table2 = pa.table({'id': [3, 4], ... 'n_legs': [5, 100], ... 'animal': ["Brittle stars", "Centipede"]}) >>> joined_table = table1.join(table2, keys="id") The result will be a new table created by joining ``table1`` with ``table2`` on the ``id`` key with a ``left outer join``: .. code-block:: python >>> joined_table pyarrow.Table id: int64 year: int64 n_legs: int64 animal: string ---- id: [[3,1,2]] year: [[2019,2020,2022]] n_legs: [[5,null,null]] animal: [["Brittle stars",null,null]] We can perform additional type of joins, like ``full outer join`` by passing them to the ``join_type`` argument: .. code-block:: python >>> table1.join(table2, keys='id', join_type="full outer").combine_chunks().sort_by('id') pyarrow.Table id: int64 year: int64 n_legs: int64 animal: string ---- id: [[1,2,3,4]] year: [[2020,2022,2019,null]] n_legs: [[null,null,5,100]] animal: [[null,null,"Brittle stars","Centipede"]] It's also possible to provide additional join keys, so that the join happens on two keys instead of one. For example we can add an ``year`` column to ``table2`` so that we can join on ``('id', 'year')``: .. code-block:: python >>> table2_withyear = table2.append_column("year", pa.array([2019, 2022])) >>> table1.join(table2_withyear, keys=["id", "year"]) pyarrow.Table id: int64 year: int64 n_legs: int64 animal: string ---- id: [[3,1,2]] year: [[2019,2020,2022]] n_legs: [[5,null,null]] animal: [["Brittle stars",null,null]] The same capabilities are available for :meth:`.Dataset.join` too, so you can take two datasets and join them: .. code-block:: python >>> import pyarrow.dataset as ds >>> ds1 = ds.dataset(table1) >>> ds2 = ds.dataset(table2) >>> joined_ds = ds1.join(ds2, keys="id") >>> joined_ds.head(5) pyarrow.Table id: int64 year: int64 n_legs: int64 animal: string ---- id: [[3,1,2]] year: [[2019,2020,2022]] n_legs: [[5,null,null]] animal: [["Brittle stars",null,null]] .. _py-filter-expr: Filtering by Expressions ======================== :class:`.Table` and :class:`.Dataset` can both be filtered using a boolean :class:`.Expression`. The expression can be built starting from a :func:`pyarrow.compute.field`. Comparisons and transformations can then be applied to one or more fields to build the filter expression you care about. Most :ref:`compute` can be used to perform transformations on a ``field``. For example we could build a filter to find all rows that are even in column ``"nums"`` .. code-block:: python >>> even_filter = (pc.bit_wise_and(pc.field("nums"), pc.scalar(1)) == pc.scalar(0)) .. note:: The filter finds even numbers by performing a bitwise and operation between the number and ``1``. As ``1`` is to ``00000001`` in binary form, only numbers that have the last bit set to ``1`` will return a non-zero result from the ``bit_wise_and`` operation. This way we are identifying all odd numbers. Given that we are interested in the even ones, we then check that the number returned by the ``bit_wise_and`` operation equals ``0``. Only the numbers where the last bit was ``0`` will return a ``0`` as the result of ``num & 1`` and as all numbers where the last bit is ``0`` are multiples of ``2`` we will be filtering for the even numbers only. Once we have our filter, we can provide it to the :meth:`.Table.filter` method to filter our table only for the matching rows: .. code-block:: python >>> table = pa.table({'nums': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], ... 'chars': ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "l"]}) >>> table.filter(even_filter) pyarrow.Table nums: int64 chars: string ---- nums: [[2,4,6,8,10]] chars: [["b","d","f","h","l"]] Multiple filters can be joined using ``&``, ``|``, ``~`` to perform ``and``, ``or`` and ``not`` operations. For example using ``~even_filter`` will actually end up filtering for all numbers that are odd: .. code-block:: python >>> table.filter(~even_filter) pyarrow.Table nums: int64 chars: string ---- nums: [[1,3,5,7,9]] chars: [["a","c","e","g","i"]] and we could build a filter that finds all even numbers greater than 5 by combining our ``even_filter`` with a ``pc.field("nums") > 5`` filter: .. code-block:: python >>> table.filter(even_filter & (pc.field("nums") > 5)) pyarrow.Table nums: int64 chars: string ---- nums: [[6,8,10]] chars: [["f","h","l"]] :class:`.Dataset` can similarly be filtered with the :meth:`.Dataset.filter` method. The method will return an instance of :class:`.Dataset` which will lazily apply the filter as soon as actual data of the dataset is accessed: .. code-block:: python >>> dataset = ds.dataset(table) >>> filtered = dataset.filter(pc.field("nums") < 5).filter(pc.field("nums") > 2) >>> filtered.to_table() pyarrow.Table nums: int64 chars: string ---- nums: [[3,4]] chars: [["c","d"]] User-Defined Functions ====================== .. warning:: This API is **experimental**. PyArrow allows defining and registering custom compute functions. These functions can then be called from Python as well as C++ (and potentially any other implementation wrapping Arrow C++, such as the R ``arrow`` package) using their registered function name. UDF support is limited to scalar functions. A scalar function is a function which executes elementwise operations on arrays or scalars. In general, the output of a scalar function does not depend on the order of values in the arguments. Note that such functions have a rough correspondence to the functions used in SQL expressions, or to NumPy `universal functions `_. To register a UDF, a function name, function docs, input types and output type need to be defined. Using :func:`pyarrow.compute.register_scalar_function`, .. code-block:: python >>> import numpy as np >>> function_name = "numpy_gcd" >>> function_docs = { ... "summary": "Calculates the greatest common divisor", ... "description": ... "Given 'x' and 'y' find the greatest number that divides\n" ... "evenly into both x and y." ... } >>> input_types = { ... "x" : pa.int64(), ... "y" : pa.int64() ... } >>> output_type = pa.int64() >>> >>> def to_np(val): ... if isinstance(val, pa.Scalar): ... return val.as_py() ... else: ... return np.array(val) >>> >>> def gcd_numpy(ctx, x, y): ... np_x = to_np(x) ... np_y = to_np(y) ... return pa.array(np.gcd(np_x, np_y)) >>> >>> pc.register_scalar_function(gcd_numpy, ... function_name, ... function_docs, ... input_types, ... output_type) The implementation of a user-defined function always takes a first *context* parameter (named ``ctx`` in the example above) which is an instance of :class:`pyarrow.compute.UdfContext`. This context exposes several useful attributes, particularly a :attr:`~pyarrow.compute.UdfContext.memory_pool` to be used for allocations in the context of the user-defined function. You can call a user-defined function directly using :func:`pyarrow.compute.call_function`: .. code-block:: python >>> pc.call_function("numpy_gcd", [pa.scalar(27), pa.scalar(63)]) >>> pc.call_function("numpy_gcd", [pa.scalar(27), pa.array([81, 12, 5])]) [ 27, 3, 1 ] Working with Datasets --------------------- More generally, user-defined functions are usable everywhere a compute function can be referred by its name. For example, they can be called on a dataset's column using :meth:`Expression._call`. Consider an instance where the data is in a table and we want to compute the GCD of one column with the scalar value 30. We will be re-using the "numpy_gcd" user-defined function that was created above: .. code-block:: python >>> data_table = pa.table({'category': ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'], 'value': [90, 630, 1827, 2709]}) >>> dataset = ds.dataset(data_table) >>> func_args = [pc.scalar(30), ds.field("value")] >>> dataset.to_table( ... columns={ ... 'gcd_value': ds.field('')._call("numpy_gcd", func_args), ... 'value': ds.field('value'), ... 'category': ds.field('category') ... }) pyarrow.Table gcd_value: int64 value: int64 category: string ---- gcd_value: [[30,30,3,3]] value: [[90,630,1827,2709]] category: [["A","B","C","D"]] Note that ``ds.field('')._call(...)`` returns a :func:`pyarrow.compute.Expression`. The arguments passed to this function call are expressions, not scalar values (notice the difference between :func:`pyarrow.scalar` and :func:`pyarrow.compute.scalar`, the latter produces an expression). This expression is evaluated when the projection operator executes it. Projection Expressions ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In the above example we used an expression to add a new column (``gcd_value``) to our table. Adding new, dynamically computed, columns to a table is known as "projection" and there are limitations on what kinds of functions can be used in projection expressions. A projection function must emit a single output value for each input row. That output value should be calculated entirely from the input row and should not depend on any other row. For example, the "numpy_gcd" function that we've been using as an example above is a valid function to use in a projection. A "cumulative sum" function would not be a valid function since the result of each input row depends on the rows that came before. A "drop nulls" function would also be invalid because it doesn't emit a value for some rows. Standard Python Operators ========================= PyArrow supports standard Python operators for element-wise operations for arrays and scalars. Currently, the support is limited to some of the standard compute functions, i.e. arithmetic (``+``, ``-``, ``/``, ``%``, ``**``), bitwise (``&``, ``|``, ``^``, ``>>``, ``<<``) and others. The aforementioned operators use checked version of underlying kernels wherever possible and have the same respective constraints, e.g. you cannot add two arrays of strings. You can use the operators as following: .. code-block:: python >>> import pyarrow as pa >>> arr = pa.array([-1, 2, -3]) >>> val = pa.scalar(42.7) >>> arr + val [ 41.7, 44.7, 39.7 ] >>> val ** arr [ 0.023419203747072598, 1823.2900000000002, 0.000012844475506953143 ] >>> arr << 2 [ -4, 8, -12 ]