Good pointer by Dyuti. For an explanation on Sequence and HAR files you can
visit another great post on Cloudera's blog section here :
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2009/02/the-small-files-problem/
Regards,
Mohammad Tariq
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM, dyuti a <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Lin,
> check this link too
> http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2011/01/hadoop-io-sequence-map-set-array-bloommap-files/
>
> Hope it helps!
> dti
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Lin Ma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mohammad,
>>
>> I searched Hadoop file format, but only find sequence file format, so it
>> is why I have the confusion.
>>
>> 1. Are these file formats built on top of sequence file format?
>> 2. Appreciate if you could kindly point me to the official
>> documentation for the file formats.
>>
>> regards,
>> Lin
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Mohammad Tariq <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Lin,
>>>
>>> Along with that, Hadoop MapFiles, SetFiles, IFiles , HAR files.
>>> But each has its own significance and used under different scenarios.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mohammad Tariq
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Lin Ma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry I miss a question mark. I should say "are there any other
>>>> built-in file format supported by Hadoop?" :-)
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Lin
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Lin Ma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a very basic question. Besides sequence file format (
>>>>> http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.html),
>>>>> are there any other built-in file format supported by Hadoop?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks in advance,
>>>>> Lin
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
