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Runping Qi reassigned HADOOP-1216:
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Assignee: Runping Qi
> 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
> Assigned To: Runping Qi
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> 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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