Hello Abhay, On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, abhay ratnaparkhi <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to get data from database before launching job and then pass > the object to all Maps? > I know we can use DistributedCache to distribute files. But is there any > facility to distribute objects?
There's no direct way of doing that in Hadoop without manual ser-deser. Serialize into a file -> Add to DC -> Deserialize in Tasks, should do it. -- Harsh J
