You can also just write an input format, but you should limit the parallelism. Hadoop clusters, even small ones, can completely flatten a database server very easily.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Enis Soztutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, there is a way to use DBMS over JDBC. The feature is not realeased > yet, but you can try it out, and give valuable feedback to us. > You can find the patch and the jira issue at : > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2536 > > > > Lakshmi Narayanan wrote: > >> Has anyone tried using any RDBMS with the hadoop? If the data is stored >> in >> the database is there any way we can use the mapreduce with the database >> instead of the HDFS? >> >> >> > -- ted