Advanced Dynamic Partition Pruning (DPP).

Updated May 5, 2026

Short answer

DPP allows Spark to prune partitions of a dimension table based on results from a fact table during join.

Deep explanation

When joining a large Fact table with a small Dimension table, Spark injects a subquery to find matching IDs from the dimension table and uses them to skip reading Fact partitions.

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