Please open a jira, we can discuss. Also, you might want to look at Apache Tez - one could easily get it to work with a bit of hacking.
thanks, Arun On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:07 PM, Radim Kolar wrote: > i have need for running combiner without reducers. > > Workflow mapper -> sort -> combiner -> hdfs. > > do you think that you will ever support that scenario? Its quite common > because few hadoop frameworks supports it, but they emulate it in mapper by > caching results into memory. -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
