How to get other columns when using Spark DataFrame groupby?

Long story short in general you have to join aggregated results with the original table. Spark SQL follows the same pre-SQL:1999 convention as most of the major databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server) which doesn't allow additional columns in aggregation queries.

Since for aggregations like count results are not well defined and behavior tends to vary in systems which supports this type of queries you can just include additional columns using arbitrary aggregate like first or last.

In some cases you can replace agg using select with window functions and subsequent where but depending on the context it can be quite expensive.

One way to get all columns after doing a groupBy is to use join function.

feature_group = ['name', 'age']
data_counts = df.groupBy(feature_group).count().alias("counts")
data_joined = df.join(data_counts, feature_group)

data_joined will now have all columns including the count values.

May be this solution will helpfull.

from pyspark.sql import SQLContext
from pyspark import SparkContext, SparkConf
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
from pyspark.sql import Window

    name_list = [(101, 'abc', 24), (102, 'cde', 24), (103, 'efg', 22), (104, 'ghi', 21),
                 (105, 'ijk', 20), (106, 'klm', 19), (107, 'mno', 18), (108, 'pqr', 18),
                 (109, 'rst', 26), (110, 'tuv', 27), (111, 'pqr', 18), (112, 'rst', 28), (113, 'tuv', 29)]

age_w = Window.partitionBy("age")
name_age_df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(name_list, ['id', 'name', 'age'])

name_age_count_df = name_age_df.withColumn("count", F.count("id").over(age_w)).orderBy("count")
name_age_count_df.show()

Output:

+---+----+---+-----+
| id|name|age|count|
+---+----+---+-----+
|109| rst| 26|    1|
|113| tuv| 29|    1|
|110| tuv| 27|    1|
|106| klm| 19|    1|
|103| efg| 22|    1|
|104| ghi| 21|    1|
|105| ijk| 20|    1|
|112| rst| 28|    1|
|101| abc| 24|    2|
|102| cde| 24|    2|
|107| mno| 18|    3|
|111| pqr| 18|    3|
|108| pqr| 18|    3|
+---+----+---+-----+