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6.13. time_travel-nyc_taxi-spark-iceberg

Documents the scenario's paired Jupyter (notebook.ipynb) and Zeppelin (notebook.zpln) implementations. Both notebooks implement identical logic in PySpark and Scala.

1. Section map

Subsection Scala (Zeppelin) PySpark (Jupyter)
2.1 Setup ✓ ✓
2.2 Read ✓ ✓
2.3 Transform ✓ ✓
2.4 Write ✓ ✓
2.5 Verify ✓ ✓

2. Walkthrough

2.1 Setup

Scala (Zeppelin):

import spark.implicits._
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
// spark pre-bound (Spark Connect + lakehouse catalog)

PySpark (Jupyter):

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

spark = SparkSession.builder.remote("sc://spark-connect:15002").getOrCreate()

2.2 Read

Scala (Zeppelin):

spark.sql("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt AS SELECT * FROM lakehouse.bronze.nyc_taxi_trips").show(false)

PySpark (Jupyter):

spark.sql("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt AS SELECT * FROM lakehouse.bronze.nyc_taxi_trips").show(truncate=False)

2.3 Transform

Scala (Zeppelin):

spark.sql("INSERT INTO lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt SELECT * FROM lakehouse.bronze.nyc_taxi_trips WHERE passenger_count > 3").show(false)

PySpark (Jupyter):

spark.sql("INSERT INTO lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt SELECT * FROM lakehouse.bronze.nyc_taxi_trips WHERE passenger_count > 3").show(truncate=False)

2.4 Write

Scala (Zeppelin):

spark.sql("ALTER TABLE lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt CREATE BRANCH IF NOT EXISTS audit").show(false)

PySpark (Jupyter):

spark.sql("ALTER TABLE lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt CREATE BRANCH IF NOT EXISTS audit").show(truncate=False)

2.5 Verify

Scala (Zeppelin):

spark.sql("SELECT committed_at, snapshot_id FROM lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt.history ORDER BY committed_at").show(false)
// time-travel: spark.sql("SELECT count(*) FROM lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt VERSION AS OF <snapshot_id>").show()
// rollback:    spark.sql("CALL lakehouse.system.rollback_to_snapshot('lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt', <snapshot_id>)").show()

PySpark (Jupyter):

spark.sql("SELECT committed_at, snapshot_id FROM lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt.history ORDER BY committed_at").show(truncate=False)
# time-travel: spark.sql("SELECT count(*) FROM lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt VERSION AS OF <snapshot_id>").show()
# rollback:    spark.sql("CALL lakehouse.system.rollback_to_snapshot('lakehouse.silver.nyc_taxi_tt', <snapshot_id>)").show()

3. Scala / PySpark parity

Both notebooks share the same numbered sections and produce identical Iceberg tables; only the language and interpreter differ.

4. How to run

Open the scenario's zeppelin/notebook.zpln on the Atlas Zeppelin UI or jupyter/notebook.ipynb on JupyterHub, then run all paragraphs/cells top to bottom.