Get Size of a column in Bytes for a Pyspark Data frame

Anbazhagananbut
New Contributor II

Hello All,

I have a column in a dataframe which i struct type.I want to find the size of the column in bytes.it is getting failed while loading in snowflake.

I could see size functions avialable to get the length.how to calculate the size in bytes for a column in pyspark dataframe.

pyspark.sql.functions.size(col)

Collection function: returns the length of the array or map stored in the column.

Please help me on this case.

Thanks

sean_owen
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

There isn't one size for a column; it takes some amount of bytes in memory, but a different amount potentially when serialized on disk or stored in Parquet. You can work out the size in memory from its data type; an array of 100 bytes takes 100 bytes; a long takes 8 bytes, etc.