Hi James, By default, there is no guarantees on value order. Using some of the more advanced API features, you can perform a secondary sort of values. You can read a good example of it here:
http://sonerbalkir.blogspot.com/2010/01/simulating-secondary-sort-on-values.html -Joey On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:55 PM, James Y. Li <yuel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I just begin to use Hadoop framework, and write my reduce() method. Wonder > if the Iterable input values (associated with the input key) are already > sorted. Thanks! > > p.s. I am using the version 0.20.2-cdh3u1 > > -james > > -- > > -- Joseph Echeverria Cloudera, Inc. 443.305.9434
