left outer join and right outer join code example

Example 1: Perform a left outer join of self and other.

x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4)])
y = sc.parallelize([("a", 2)])
sorted(x.leftOuterJoin(y).collect())
# [('a', (1, 2)), ('b', (4, None))]

Example 2: right outer vs left outer join

LEFT OUTER JOIN:
is used when retrieving data from
multiple tables and will return
left table and any matching right table records.

RIGHT OUTER JOIN:
is used when retrieving data from
multiple tables and will return right
table and any matching left table records