On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Bryan Duxbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think what you're saying is that you are mostly interested in data > locality. I don't think it's done yet, but it would be pretty easy to make > HBase provide start keys as well as region locations for splits for a > MapReduce job. In theory, that would give you all the pieces you need to run > locality-aware processing. Aha, so that is the definition: locality aware processing. Yeah, that sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. So, as far as I understand it, it is (technically) possible, but it's just not available within hadoop yet? -- Leon Mergen http://www.solatis.com