Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the place to ask this question, but I'm still
hopping for an answer/advice.
Large number of small files are uploaded, about 8KB. I am aware that
this is not something that you're hopping for when working with Hadoop.
I was thinking about using HAR files and combined input, or sequence
files. The problem is, files are timestamped, and I need different
subset in different time, for example - one job needs to run on files
that are uploaded during last 3 months, while next job might consider
last 6 months. Naturally, as time passes different subset of files is
needed.
This means that I would need to make a sequence file (or a HAR) each
time I run a job, to have smaller number of mappers. On the other hand,
I need the original files so I could subset them. This means that
DataNode is at constant pressure, saving all of this in its memory.
How can I solve this problem?
I was also considering using Cassandra, or something like that, and to
save the file content inside of it, instead of saving it to files on
HDFS. FIle content is actually some measurement, that is, a vector of
numbers, with some metadata.
Thanks
