Hey, The folks from Yahoo say that their work on TFile (see http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3315) is quite similar to the Hive work on RCFile. Might be worth checking out what's in TFile also and see if you can merge one into the other.
Later, Jeff 2009/6/12 He Yongqiang <heyongqi...@software.ict.ac.cn> > I think this would be great. And we should avoid duplicate work and should > put together the develop forces instead of isolating them. I completely > support this :). > > > On 09-6-13 上午5:42, "Joydeep Sen Sarma" <jssa...@facebook.com> wrote: > > > Is this columnar format reusable by other folks? > > > > Is it possible to demonstrate the use (in case of simple delimited text > data) > > by writing a configurable inputformat on top of this that can project out > the > > configured columns? > > > > The reason I am asking is that there is some parallel work going on in > > yahoo/pig on columnar format and no one's aware of this format - whereas > it > > should be usable by other people (and not just Hive). > > > > Comments? > > > > > > >
