You volunteering to port to avro, Ted? Awesome! :) -jake
On Feb 2, 2010 1:10 PM, "Ted Dunning (JIRA)" <j...@apache.org> wrote: [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-237?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12828763#action_12828763] Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-237: ------------------------------------ {quote} Seems like the Text field Vector Class Name (i.e RandomAccessSparseVector etc) is taking most of the space in the sequencefile. Cant we compact it(with an integer id and a factory)? {quote} What about switching to Avro to avoid this? > Map/Reduce Implementation of Document Vectorizer > ----------------------------------------------... > Attachments: DictionaryVectorizer.patch, DictionaryVectorizer.patch, DictionaryVectorizer.patch, DictionaryVectorizer.patch, DictionaryVectorizer.patch, MAHOUT-237-tfidf.patch, SparseVector-VIntWritable.patch > > > Current Vectorizer uses Lucene Index to convert documents into SparseVectors > Ted is working ...