Maybe it was slow for me because I was writing from file system to HDFS, but now that I am using Amazon's MR, it will be OK. Thank you, Mark
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Owen O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote: > > SequenceFileOutputFormat write is known to be slow. >> > > It isn't known to be slow. > > Would it help if I >> convert the binary content to text, with something like Base64 encoding, >> and >> use that? >> > > It would be much slower. > > -- Owen >
