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Liyin Tang commented on HBASE-15482:
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Dave, thanks for the response.
Even we use HDFS snapshots, it will be great to have an option to skip
calculating block locations. To decouple computing with storage , it is
possible to set up computing layer for query engine like Spark/Hive/Presto in a
different cluster. In these cases, the locality doesn't matter for both HBase
and HDFS snapshots.
> 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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