On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter.plaeti...@intec.ugent.be> wrote: > 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)
Thanks! Is there a specific tutorial I can focus on to see how it could be done? > > Dieter >
