It is key to the scheduling paradigm of Hadoop that it doesn't have to tell you how many or when. It would have to store up all of the data for your key before activating your reducer. This is exactly what it cannot do and scale.
(right?) On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Niels Basjes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/11/7 Anthony Urso <[email protected]> >> >> Is there any way to know how many values I will see in a call to >> reduce without first counting through them all with the iterator? >> >> Under 0.21? 0.20? 0.19? > > I've looked for an answer to the same question a while ago and came to the > conclusion that you can't. > The main limit is that the Iterator does not have a "size" or "length" > method. > > -- > Met vriendelijke groeten, > > Niels Basjes > -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
