Mohit, "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" (Chapter 3 - Hadoop I/O) has a section on SequenceFile and is worth reading.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521981 Thanks, Praveen On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Owen O'Malley <o...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > Thanks! Is there a specific tutorial I can focus on to see how it could be > > done? > > > > Take the word count example and change its output format to be > SequenceFileOutputFormat. > > job.setOutputFormatClass(SequenceFileOutputFormat.class); > > and it will generate SequenceFiles instead of text. There is > SequenceFileInputFormat for reading. > > -- Owen >
