Join Rows transform Icon Join Rows

Description

The Join Rows (cartesian product) transform allows you to combine/join multiple input streams (Cartesian product) without joining on keys. It works best with one row from each stream. You can add a condition to only join when a condition is met.

Supported Engines

Hop Engine

Supported

Spark

Maybe Supported

Flink

Maybe Supported

Dataflow

Maybe Supported

Options

Option Description

Transform name

Name of the transform this name has to be unique in a single pipeline.

Temp directory

Specify the name of the directory where the system stores temporary files in case you want to combine more then the cached number of rows.

TMP-file prefix

This is the prefix of the temporary files that will be generated.

Max. cache size

The number of rows to cache before the system reads data from temporary files; required when you want to combine large row sets that do not fit into memory.

Main transform to read from

Specifies the transform from which to read most of the data; while the data from other transforms are cached or spooled to disk, the data from this transform is not.

The Condition(s)

You can enter a complex condition to limit the number of output row.