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Dave Latham commented on HBASE-15482:
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Liyin, you mentioned it being outside of the scope of this jira, but we use
hdfs snapshots rather than hbase snapshots for reasons like that, and have an
adapted input format for reading from them. If there is interest we could look
at trying to share that better, can see what shape it is in.
> Provide an option to skip calculating block locations for SnapshotInputFormat
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> Key: HBASE-15482
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15482
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapreduce
> Reporter: Liyin Tang
> Priority: Minor
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> When a MR job is reading from SnapshotInputFormat, it needs to calculate the
> splits based on the block locations in order to get best locality. However,
> this process may take a long time for large snapshots.
> In some setup, the computing layer, Spark, Hive or Presto could run out side
> of HBase cluster. In these scenarios, the block locality doesn't matter.
> Therefore, it will be great to have an option to skip calculating the block
> locations for every job. That will super useful for the Hive/Presto/Spark
> connectors.
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