On 3/11/08 3:21 PM, "Jason Rennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there much overhead in grabbing data from
> HDFS if that data is stored locally?
That should be pretty good.
>> Map reduce is not generally useful for real-time applications. It is VERY
>> useful for large scale data reductions done in advance of real-time
>> operations.
>
> Gotcha. We'll consider switching to a batch-style approach, which it sounds
> like Hadoop would be perfect for.
I couldn't possibly comment in detail, but I would have to say that this
seems like a very good approach.
:-)
