The answer is given here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11778681/advantages-of-sequence-file-over-hdfs-textfile
Going forward you can also look at :) - http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-Avros-object-container-file-format-over-the-SequenceFile-container-format -Suraj On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:26 AM, wang fangfang <[email protected]> wrote: > hi > I having got this,I am sorry to bother you，Have a good day！ > Best Wishes > > 2012/9/22 wang fangfang <[email protected]> > > > Hi > > I am a novice who are studing hama,As I study the examples such as > > clustering or pagerank ,I find most of the perfects > > SequenceFileOutputFormat.class, > > and I want to what is the consideration when taking this format. > > Thank you very much . > > Best regards > > >
