Hadoop should support reduce none option
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Key: HADOOP-1216
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1216
Project: Hadoop
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: mapred
Reporter: Runping Qi
This has been a highly desired feature in streaming world and was asked
occationally in the non-streaming side.
Streaming implemented a working (hacking) solution. But it also generates
discrepency between hadoop
streaming/non-streaming model. It would be nice if Hadoop offers such a feature
that works both streaming and non-streaming. Owen and I discussed this a bit
and here is the
general idea for further discussions/suggestions:
1. Allows the user to specify reducer=none in jobconf.
2. The user still can specify output format and output directory
3. Each mapper will generate an output file in the specified directory. The
naming convention can still be like part-xxxxxxxx
where xxxxxxxx is the map task number.
4. The mapoutput collector of a mapper task will be a record writer on the
5. The mapper will call output.collect() to write the output, thus the same
mapper class can be
used, regardless reducer none is set or not.
When reducer is set to none for a job, there will be no mapoutput files writen
on to local file system at all,
and no data shuffling between mappers and reducers. As a mapper of fact, the
framework may choose
not to create reducers at all.
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