Well, my understanding was that Ehcache allows name-value pairs to be stored
in-memory, reducing disk transactions. So, if I put Ehcache on top of a
NoSQL persistence store such as Cassandra which is also a key-value store,
it should speed up the performance of a MapReduce app.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> What are you thinking it might cache?
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Dhruv Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Has anyone over here used EHcache with Mahout (or pure Hadoop jobs)?
> >
> > http://ehcache.org/
> >
> > For iterative MapReduce applications running on a NoSQL data store, it
> > should provide a good performance boost by providing an in-memory object
> > cache (I think). Any comments?
> >
>

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