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? > > >
