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Custom Partitioning for Performance.
Updated May 5, 2026
Short answer
Custom partitioning controls how data is distributed based on business logic to minimize shuffles.
Deep explanation
By implementing a custom Partitioner (for RDDs) or using bucketBy (for DataFrames), you can ensure that data frequently joined together resides on the same node.
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