I was looking at this page -
http://hbase.apache.org/book/mapreduce.example.html. specifically, section
7.2.4.
so if i understand you correctly, i can pass a list of puts to
context.write()? I haven't tried though. But is that the way to go?

thanks

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Tim Robertson <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Assuming you use TableOutputFormat [1] you can emit as many PUTs as
> you want from a reducer.  You will need to handle the row key as you
> create the PUT to emit.
>
> HTH,
> Tim
>
> [1]
> http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableOutputFormat.html
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:34 PM, T Vinod Gupta <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > while doing map reduce on hbase tables, is it possible to do multiple
> puts
> > in the reducer? what i want is a way to be able to write multiple rows.
> if
> > its not possible, then what are the other alternatives? i mean like
> > creating a wider table in that case.
> >
> > thanks
>

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