On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Rohit Kelkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Loan, this seems interesting. But in your approach I have a follow > up question - would I be able to take advantage of data locality > while running map-reduce tasks? My understanding is that the locality > would be with respect to the references to those objects and not the > actual objects themselves. >
If you are mapreducing against hbase, locality should be respected: i.e. the <5mb objects should be on the local regionserver. The bigger stuff maybe local -- it would depend on how it was written. Not sure what you mean above when you talk of references vs actual objects. Yours, St.Ack
