it is worth some investigation to determine if there is merit to adapting Mahout's MR jobs to use avro. Doug has recently committed a patch to avro (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-493) that involves considerably less complexity than what I had originally proposed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-274, based on the initial proposed avro/mapreduce integration in MAPREDUCE-815.
I'm half waiting for avro 1.4 to be released (which will include AVRO-493) before I dig into further proofs-of-concept of avro usage in Mahout, but I think there is something there worth seriously exploring. (half procrastinating otherwise) Drew On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Jeff Eastman <j...@windwardsolutions.com> wrote: > Seems like a major rewrite to replace Writable within our MR jobs.
