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Vinayakumar B commented on HADOOP-11569: ---------------------------------------- Thanks for the suggestions [~ozawa]. I will change accordingly and post a patch soon. > Provide Merge API for MapFile to merge multiple similar MapFiles to one > MapFile > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-11569 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11569 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Vinayakumar B > Assignee: Vinayakumar B > Attachments: HADOOP-11569-001.patch, HADOOP-11569-002.patch, > HADOOP-11569-003.patch, HADOOP-11569-004.patch > > > If there are multiple similar MapFiles of the same keyClass and value > classes, then these can be merged together to One MapFile to allow search > easier. > Provide an API similar to {{SequenceFile#merge()}}. > Merging will be easy with the fact that MapFiles are already sorted. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)