Thanks. So in the overall scheme of things, what is the general feeling about using python for this? I like the ease of deploying and reading python compared with Java but want to make sure using python over hadoop is scalable & is standard practice and not something done only for prototyping and small scale tests.
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Alex Loddengaard <a...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Streaming is slightly slower than native Java jobs. Otherwise Python works > great in streaming. > > Alex > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:36 AM, s d <s.d.sau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > How robust is using hadoop with python over the streaming protocol? Any > > disadvantages (performance? flexibility?) ? It just strikes me that > python > > is so much more convenient when it comes to deploying and crunching text > > files. > > Thanks, > > >
