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?

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Leon Mergen
http://www.solatis.com

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