Databricks: Non-RDD Scripts for RDDs

Ganesh Chandrasekaran
Python in Plain English
4 min readFeb 22, 2024

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RDDs are not supported in Databricks Unity Catalog — Shared compute clusters. This article will help you mitigate the common RDDs you already have when migrating from Hive Metastore to Unity Catalog.

You will notice the RDD scripts first and the equivalent non-RDD version afterward.

RDD Map & Collect()

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