On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:44:42 -0700 Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does map-reduce work well with binary contents in the file? This > binary content is basically some CAD files and map reduce program need > to read these files using some proprietry tool extract values and do > some processing. Wondering if there are others doing similar type of > processing. Best practices etc. yes, it works. you just need to select the right input format. Personally i store all my binary files into a sequencefile (because my binary files are small) Dieter
