Re: Reading data output by MapFileOutputFormat

2012-04-23 Thread Ali Safdar Kureishy
Thanks Harsh! This is very helpful. Regards, Ali On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Harsh J wrote: > Ali, > > MapFiles are explained at > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/MapFile.html > - Please give it a read and it should solve half your questions. In > short

Re: Reading data output by MapFileOutputFormat

2012-04-23 Thread Harsh J
Ali, MapFiles are explained at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/MapFile.html - Please give it a read and it should solve half your questions. In short, MapFile is two files - one raw SequenceFile and another an index file built on top of it. The reason MR does