I prefer to create indexes in the reducer personally. 

Also you can avoid the copies if you use an advanced hadoop-derived distro. 
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> if I create a Lucene index in each mapper, locally, then copy them to under 
> /jobid/mapid1, /jodid/mapid2, and then in the reducers copy them to some Solr 
> machine (perhaps even merging), does such architecture makes sense, to create 
> a searchable index with Hadoop?
> 
> Are there links for similar architectures and questions?
> 
> Thank you. Sincerely,
> Mark

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