2012/3/20 kim young ill <khi...@googlemail.com>: > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Ioan Eugen Stan <stan.ieu...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Pe 20.03.2012 18:18, Manish Bhoge a scris: >>> >>> Kim, >>> Interesting to know how to handle segment in sequence. Just want to >>> understand the application of deleting the segment rather than the file >>> itself in a sequence. >>> Sorry for not providing solution here. But I would like to understand the >>> application at first place. >>> Thank you, >>> Manish. >>> Sent from my BlackBerry, pls excuse typo > > > > Hi, > > just imagine one wants to save conversations, log-entries, > blog-entries,emails... to files, one would also want to delete/change one > entry in the middle. for some reason i want to avoid a database. each > text-segment to a seperate file isnt a good idea, right ? > > thanx > kim
Depends on your use case. How much date are you thinking about? Hadoop is justified only if you wish to do large scale processing, and a single machine can't do the job. And it has some limitations regarding what you can do. It's designed with write once, read many times ideas in mind. -- Ioan Eugen Stan http://ieugen.blogspot.com/
