OK, going by the (in)efficiency arguments of JSON, I'll stick with my original plan of writing a custom serializable class during the initial phase of the project, which as Sean mentioned shouldn't be too much work either.
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Dhruv <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Cloud 9 is an easy to use Hadoop MapReduce library by Jimmy Lin from the > > University of Maryland using the Apache 2.0 license ( > > http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/cloud9/docs/). The library contains > a > > very convenient, lightweight JSON serializable class. One can use this > > class > > instead of rolling your own custom serializable objects and it could help > > me > > for the GSOC . > > > > Jimmy's cloud9 library is primarily for educational use - it's free to > include > (license-wise), but not all of the classes in there are performance > optimized, > including this one. I don't think he's even benchmarked this against gson > or jackson, but I can ask him (he is on leave from UMD and working at > Twitter > this year). > > Regardless, I agree with Sean - we pulled json *out* of mahout for a > reason, > let's not bring it back in. > > -jake >
