How to detect lines that are unique in large file using Reactive Extensions












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I have to process large CSV files (up to tens of GB), that looks like this:



Key,CompletedA,CompletedB
1,true,NULL
2,true,NULL
3,false,NULL
1,NULL,true
2,NULL,true


I have a parser that yields parsed lines as IEnumerable<Record>, so that I reads only one line at a time into memory.



Now I have to group records by Key and check whether columns CompletedA and CompletedB have value within the group. On the output I need records, that does not have both CompletedA,CompletedB within the group.



In this case it is record with key 3.



However, there is many similar processings going on the same dataset and I don't wont to iterate over it multiple times.



I think I can convert IEnumerable into IObservable and use Reactive Extentions to find the records.



Is it possible to do it in memory efficient way with simple Linq expression over the IObservable collection?










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    Sure, you could also use a pipeline processor like dataflow, orrrr Reactive Extensions, however, this is all overkill, you can do it efficiently in a foreach loop and you would be doing yourself a favor to try this first

    – Michael Randall
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:17













  • records.CountBy(z => new { Key = z.Key, Value = z.CompletedA ?? z.CompletedB}).Where(z => z.Value == 1).Select(z => z.Key) might get you started. You'll need nuget.org/packages/morelinq for this.

    – mjwills
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:44













  • How many distinct Keys do you have?

    – Dmitry Bychenko
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:56











  • @TheGeneral: This is just one of many such analytics and I would have to do all of them in single foreach. There are also other reasons why foreach is not suitable

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:18











  • @DmitryBychenko: "How many distinct Keys do you have?": half the number of records or more. Nor sure how many lines will there be in production, but given the file size, a lot.

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:22
















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I have to process large CSV files (up to tens of GB), that looks like this:



Key,CompletedA,CompletedB
1,true,NULL
2,true,NULL
3,false,NULL
1,NULL,true
2,NULL,true


I have a parser that yields parsed lines as IEnumerable<Record>, so that I reads only one line at a time into memory.



Now I have to group records by Key and check whether columns CompletedA and CompletedB have value within the group. On the output I need records, that does not have both CompletedA,CompletedB within the group.



In this case it is record with key 3.



However, there is many similar processings going on the same dataset and I don't wont to iterate over it multiple times.



I think I can convert IEnumerable into IObservable and use Reactive Extentions to find the records.



Is it possible to do it in memory efficient way with simple Linq expression over the IObservable collection?










share|improve this question


















  • 1





    Sure, you could also use a pipeline processor like dataflow, orrrr Reactive Extensions, however, this is all overkill, you can do it efficiently in a foreach loop and you would be doing yourself a favor to try this first

    – Michael Randall
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:17













  • records.CountBy(z => new { Key = z.Key, Value = z.CompletedA ?? z.CompletedB}).Where(z => z.Value == 1).Select(z => z.Key) might get you started. You'll need nuget.org/packages/morelinq for this.

    – mjwills
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:44













  • How many distinct Keys do you have?

    – Dmitry Bychenko
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:56











  • @TheGeneral: This is just one of many such analytics and I would have to do all of them in single foreach. There are also other reasons why foreach is not suitable

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:18











  • @DmitryBychenko: "How many distinct Keys do you have?": half the number of records or more. Nor sure how many lines will there be in production, but given the file size, a lot.

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:22














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I have to process large CSV files (up to tens of GB), that looks like this:



Key,CompletedA,CompletedB
1,true,NULL
2,true,NULL
3,false,NULL
1,NULL,true
2,NULL,true


I have a parser that yields parsed lines as IEnumerable<Record>, so that I reads only one line at a time into memory.



Now I have to group records by Key and check whether columns CompletedA and CompletedB have value within the group. On the output I need records, that does not have both CompletedA,CompletedB within the group.



In this case it is record with key 3.



However, there is many similar processings going on the same dataset and I don't wont to iterate over it multiple times.



I think I can convert IEnumerable into IObservable and use Reactive Extentions to find the records.



Is it possible to do it in memory efficient way with simple Linq expression over the IObservable collection?










share|improve this question














I have to process large CSV files (up to tens of GB), that looks like this:



Key,CompletedA,CompletedB
1,true,NULL
2,true,NULL
3,false,NULL
1,NULL,true
2,NULL,true


I have a parser that yields parsed lines as IEnumerable<Record>, so that I reads only one line at a time into memory.



Now I have to group records by Key and check whether columns CompletedA and CompletedB have value within the group. On the output I need records, that does not have both CompletedA,CompletedB within the group.



In this case it is record with key 3.



However, there is many similar processings going on the same dataset and I don't wont to iterate over it multiple times.



I think I can convert IEnumerable into IObservable and use Reactive Extentions to find the records.



Is it possible to do it in memory efficient way with simple Linq expression over the IObservable collection?







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    Sure, you could also use a pipeline processor like dataflow, orrrr Reactive Extensions, however, this is all overkill, you can do it efficiently in a foreach loop and you would be doing yourself a favor to try this first

    – Michael Randall
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:17













  • records.CountBy(z => new { Key = z.Key, Value = z.CompletedA ?? z.CompletedB}).Where(z => z.Value == 1).Select(z => z.Key) might get you started. You'll need nuget.org/packages/morelinq for this.

    – mjwills
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:44













  • How many distinct Keys do you have?

    – Dmitry Bychenko
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:56











  • @TheGeneral: This is just one of many such analytics and I would have to do all of them in single foreach. There are also other reasons why foreach is not suitable

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:18











  • @DmitryBychenko: "How many distinct Keys do you have?": half the number of records or more. Nor sure how many lines will there be in production, but given the file size, a lot.

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:22














  • 1





    Sure, you could also use a pipeline processor like dataflow, orrrr Reactive Extensions, however, this is all overkill, you can do it efficiently in a foreach loop and you would be doing yourself a favor to try this first

    – Michael Randall
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:17













  • records.CountBy(z => new { Key = z.Key, Value = z.CompletedA ?? z.CompletedB}).Where(z => z.Value == 1).Select(z => z.Key) might get you started. You'll need nuget.org/packages/morelinq for this.

    – mjwills
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:44













  • How many distinct Keys do you have?

    – Dmitry Bychenko
    Nov 22 '18 at 8:56











  • @TheGeneral: This is just one of many such analytics and I would have to do all of them in single foreach. There are also other reasons why foreach is not suitable

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:18











  • @DmitryBychenko: "How many distinct Keys do you have?": half the number of records or more. Nor sure how many lines will there be in production, but given the file size, a lot.

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:22








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Sure, you could also use a pipeline processor like dataflow, orrrr Reactive Extensions, however, this is all overkill, you can do it efficiently in a foreach loop and you would be doing yourself a favor to try this first

– Michael Randall
Nov 22 '18 at 8:17







Sure, you could also use a pipeline processor like dataflow, orrrr Reactive Extensions, however, this is all overkill, you can do it efficiently in a foreach loop and you would be doing yourself a favor to try this first

– Michael Randall
Nov 22 '18 at 8:17















records.CountBy(z => new { Key = z.Key, Value = z.CompletedA ?? z.CompletedB}).Where(z => z.Value == 1).Select(z => z.Key) might get you started. You'll need nuget.org/packages/morelinq for this.

– mjwills
Nov 22 '18 at 8:44







records.CountBy(z => new { Key = z.Key, Value = z.CompletedA ?? z.CompletedB}).Where(z => z.Value == 1).Select(z => z.Key) might get you started. You'll need nuget.org/packages/morelinq for this.

– mjwills
Nov 22 '18 at 8:44















How many distinct Keys do you have?

– Dmitry Bychenko
Nov 22 '18 at 8:56





How many distinct Keys do you have?

– Dmitry Bychenko
Nov 22 '18 at 8:56













@TheGeneral: This is just one of many such analytics and I would have to do all of them in single foreach. There are also other reasons why foreach is not suitable

– Liero
Nov 22 '18 at 9:18





@TheGeneral: This is just one of many such analytics and I would have to do all of them in single foreach. There are also other reasons why foreach is not suitable

– Liero
Nov 22 '18 at 9:18













@DmitryBychenko: "How many distinct Keys do you have?": half the number of records or more. Nor sure how many lines will there be in production, but given the file size, a lot.

– Liero
Nov 22 '18 at 9:22





@DmitryBychenko: "How many distinct Keys do you have?": half the number of records or more. Nor sure how many lines will there be in production, but given the file size, a lot.

– Liero
Nov 22 '18 at 9:22












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Providing that Key is an integer we can try using a Dictionary and one scan:



 // value: 0b00 - neither A nor B
// 0b01 - A only
// 0b10 - B only
// 0b11 - Both A and B
Dictionary<int, byte> Status = new Dictionary<int, byte>();

var query = File
.ReadLines(@"c:MyFile.csv")
.Where(line => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
.Skip(1) // skip header
.Select(line => YourParserHere(line));

foreach (var record in query) {
int mask = (record.CompletedA != null ? 1 : 0) |
(record.CompletedB != null ? 2 : 0);

if (Status.TryGetValue(record.Key, out var value))
Status[record.Key] = (byte) (value | mask);
else
Status.Add(record.Key, (byte) mask);
}

// All keys that don't have 3 == 0b11 value (both A and B)
var bothAandB = Status
.Where(pair => pair.Value != 3)
.Select(pair => pair.Key);





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  • The reason I asked about RX solution is that there would be too many stuff in single foreach, so I need to split it somehow without enumerating the records multiple times, so I thought s push collection with multiple subscribers would work. Moreover, I have different scenarios with different set of "analytics". RX solution would make it nice reusable peace of single "analytics".

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:27











  • @Liero - You would need to ensure that the IEnumerable<Record> is lazy to make Rx efficient, but if it is then a simple loop will be too.

    – Enigmativity
    Nov 22 '18 at 11:09



















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I think this will do what you need:



var result =
source
.GroupBy(x => x.Key)
.SelectMany(xs =>
(xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true) && xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true))
? new List<Record>()
: xs.ToList());


Using Rx doesn't help here.






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    Providing that Key is an integer we can try using a Dictionary and one scan:



     // value: 0b00 - neither A nor B
    // 0b01 - A only
    // 0b10 - B only
    // 0b11 - Both A and B
    Dictionary<int, byte> Status = new Dictionary<int, byte>();

    var query = File
    .ReadLines(@"c:MyFile.csv")
    .Where(line => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
    .Skip(1) // skip header
    .Select(line => YourParserHere(line));

    foreach (var record in query) {
    int mask = (record.CompletedA != null ? 1 : 0) |
    (record.CompletedB != null ? 2 : 0);

    if (Status.TryGetValue(record.Key, out var value))
    Status[record.Key] = (byte) (value | mask);
    else
    Status.Add(record.Key, (byte) mask);
    }

    // All keys that don't have 3 == 0b11 value (both A and B)
    var bothAandB = Status
    .Where(pair => pair.Value != 3)
    .Select(pair => pair.Key);





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    • The reason I asked about RX solution is that there would be too many stuff in single foreach, so I need to split it somehow without enumerating the records multiple times, so I thought s push collection with multiple subscribers would work. Moreover, I have different scenarios with different set of "analytics". RX solution would make it nice reusable peace of single "analytics".

      – Liero
      Nov 22 '18 at 9:27











    • @Liero - You would need to ensure that the IEnumerable<Record> is lazy to make Rx efficient, but if it is then a simple loop will be too.

      – Enigmativity
      Nov 22 '18 at 11:09
















    2














    Providing that Key is an integer we can try using a Dictionary and one scan:



     // value: 0b00 - neither A nor B
    // 0b01 - A only
    // 0b10 - B only
    // 0b11 - Both A and B
    Dictionary<int, byte> Status = new Dictionary<int, byte>();

    var query = File
    .ReadLines(@"c:MyFile.csv")
    .Where(line => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
    .Skip(1) // skip header
    .Select(line => YourParserHere(line));

    foreach (var record in query) {
    int mask = (record.CompletedA != null ? 1 : 0) |
    (record.CompletedB != null ? 2 : 0);

    if (Status.TryGetValue(record.Key, out var value))
    Status[record.Key] = (byte) (value | mask);
    else
    Status.Add(record.Key, (byte) mask);
    }

    // All keys that don't have 3 == 0b11 value (both A and B)
    var bothAandB = Status
    .Where(pair => pair.Value != 3)
    .Select(pair => pair.Key);





    share|improve this answer


























    • The reason I asked about RX solution is that there would be too many stuff in single foreach, so I need to split it somehow without enumerating the records multiple times, so I thought s push collection with multiple subscribers would work. Moreover, I have different scenarios with different set of "analytics". RX solution would make it nice reusable peace of single "analytics".

      – Liero
      Nov 22 '18 at 9:27











    • @Liero - You would need to ensure that the IEnumerable<Record> is lazy to make Rx efficient, but if it is then a simple loop will be too.

      – Enigmativity
      Nov 22 '18 at 11:09














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    Providing that Key is an integer we can try using a Dictionary and one scan:



     // value: 0b00 - neither A nor B
    // 0b01 - A only
    // 0b10 - B only
    // 0b11 - Both A and B
    Dictionary<int, byte> Status = new Dictionary<int, byte>();

    var query = File
    .ReadLines(@"c:MyFile.csv")
    .Where(line => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
    .Skip(1) // skip header
    .Select(line => YourParserHere(line));

    foreach (var record in query) {
    int mask = (record.CompletedA != null ? 1 : 0) |
    (record.CompletedB != null ? 2 : 0);

    if (Status.TryGetValue(record.Key, out var value))
    Status[record.Key] = (byte) (value | mask);
    else
    Status.Add(record.Key, (byte) mask);
    }

    // All keys that don't have 3 == 0b11 value (both A and B)
    var bothAandB = Status
    .Where(pair => pair.Value != 3)
    .Select(pair => pair.Key);





    share|improve this answer















    Providing that Key is an integer we can try using a Dictionary and one scan:



     // value: 0b00 - neither A nor B
    // 0b01 - A only
    // 0b10 - B only
    // 0b11 - Both A and B
    Dictionary<int, byte> Status = new Dictionary<int, byte>();

    var query = File
    .ReadLines(@"c:MyFile.csv")
    .Where(line => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
    .Skip(1) // skip header
    .Select(line => YourParserHere(line));

    foreach (var record in query) {
    int mask = (record.CompletedA != null ? 1 : 0) |
    (record.CompletedB != null ? 2 : 0);

    if (Status.TryGetValue(record.Key, out var value))
    Status[record.Key] = (byte) (value | mask);
    else
    Status.Add(record.Key, (byte) mask);
    }

    // All keys that don't have 3 == 0b11 value (both A and B)
    var bothAandB = Status
    .Where(pair => pair.Value != 3)
    .Select(pair => pair.Key);






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    • The reason I asked about RX solution is that there would be too many stuff in single foreach, so I need to split it somehow without enumerating the records multiple times, so I thought s push collection with multiple subscribers would work. Moreover, I have different scenarios with different set of "analytics". RX solution would make it nice reusable peace of single "analytics".

      – Liero
      Nov 22 '18 at 9:27











    • @Liero - You would need to ensure that the IEnumerable<Record> is lazy to make Rx efficient, but if it is then a simple loop will be too.

      – Enigmativity
      Nov 22 '18 at 11:09



















    • The reason I asked about RX solution is that there would be too many stuff in single foreach, so I need to split it somehow without enumerating the records multiple times, so I thought s push collection with multiple subscribers would work. Moreover, I have different scenarios with different set of "analytics". RX solution would make it nice reusable peace of single "analytics".

      – Liero
      Nov 22 '18 at 9:27











    • @Liero - You would need to ensure that the IEnumerable<Record> is lazy to make Rx efficient, but if it is then a simple loop will be too.

      – Enigmativity
      Nov 22 '18 at 11:09

















    The reason I asked about RX solution is that there would be too many stuff in single foreach, so I need to split it somehow without enumerating the records multiple times, so I thought s push collection with multiple subscribers would work. Moreover, I have different scenarios with different set of "analytics". RX solution would make it nice reusable peace of single "analytics".

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:27





    The reason I asked about RX solution is that there would be too many stuff in single foreach, so I need to split it somehow without enumerating the records multiple times, so I thought s push collection with multiple subscribers would work. Moreover, I have different scenarios with different set of "analytics". RX solution would make it nice reusable peace of single "analytics".

    – Liero
    Nov 22 '18 at 9:27













    @Liero - You would need to ensure that the IEnumerable<Record> is lazy to make Rx efficient, but if it is then a simple loop will be too.

    – Enigmativity
    Nov 22 '18 at 11:09





    @Liero - You would need to ensure that the IEnumerable<Record> is lazy to make Rx efficient, but if it is then a simple loop will be too.

    – Enigmativity
    Nov 22 '18 at 11:09













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    I think this will do what you need:



    var result =
    source
    .GroupBy(x => x.Key)
    .SelectMany(xs =>
    (xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true) && xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true))
    ? new List<Record>()
    : xs.ToList());


    Using Rx doesn't help here.






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      I think this will do what you need:



      var result =
      source
      .GroupBy(x => x.Key)
      .SelectMany(xs =>
      (xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true) && xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true))
      ? new List<Record>()
      : xs.ToList());


      Using Rx doesn't help here.






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        I think this will do what you need:



        var result =
        source
        .GroupBy(x => x.Key)
        .SelectMany(xs =>
        (xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true) && xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true))
        ? new List<Record>()
        : xs.ToList());


        Using Rx doesn't help here.






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        I think this will do what you need:



        var result =
        source
        .GroupBy(x => x.Key)
        .SelectMany(xs =>
        (xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true) && xs.Select(x => x.CompletedA).Any(x => x != null && x == true))
        ? new List<Record>()
        : xs.ToList());


        Using Rx doesn't help here.







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