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Joydeep Sen Sarma commented on HADOOP-2921:
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oh btw - the reason for doing it like this was that i wouldn't have been able
to do this by subclassing sequencefileinputformat itself. most of the important
variables are private - and i didn't want to change the core code. so tried to
keep it in the app layer.
but obviously - would be more efficient to implement in the sequencefile code
itself.
> align map splits on sorted files with key boundaries
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> Key: HADOOP-2921
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2921
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 0.16.0
> Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
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> (this is something that we have implemented in the application layer - may be
> useful to have in hadoop itself).
> long term log storage systems often keep data sorted (by some sort-key).
> future computations on such files can often benefit from this sort order. if
> the job requires grouping by the sort-key - then it should be possible to do
> reduction in the map stage itself.
> this is not natively supported by hadoop (except in the degenerate case of 1
> map file per task) since splits can span the sort-key. however aligning the
> data read by the map task to sort key boundaries is straightforward - and
> this would be a useful capability to have in hadoop.
> the definition of the sort key should be left up to the application (it's not
> necessarily the key field in a Sequencefile) through a generic interface -
> but otherwise - the sequencefile and text file readers can use the extracted
> sort key to align map task data with key boundaries.
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