Re: Hadoop streaming or pipes ..
Thanks all, and Charles you guided me to Baidu slides titled: Introduction to *Hadoop C++ Extension*http://hic2010.hadooper.cn/dct/attach/Y2xiOmNsYjpwZGY6ODI5 which is their experience and the sixth-slide shows exactly what I was looking for. It is still hard to manage memory with pipes besides the no performance gains, hence the advancement of HCE. Thanks, Mark On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Charles Earl charles.ce...@gmail.comwrote: Also bear in mind that there is a kind of detour involved, in the sense that a pipes map must send key,value data back to the Java process and then to reduce (more or less). I think that the Hadoop C Extension (HCE, there is a patch) is supposed to be faster. Would be interested to know if the community has any experience with HCE performance. C On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Both streaming and pipes do very similar things. They will fork/exec a separate process that is running whatever you want it to run. The JVM that is running hadoop then communicates with this process to send the data over and get the processing results back. The difference between streaming and pipes is that streaming uses stdin/stdout for this communication so preexisting processing like grep, sed and awk can be used here. Pipes uses a custom protocol with a C++ library to communicate. The C++ library is tagged with SWIG compatible data so that it can be wrapped to have APIs in other languages like python or perl. I am not sure what the performance difference is between the two, but in my own work I have seen a significant performance penalty from using either of them, because there is a somewhat large overhead of sending all of the data out to a separate process just to read it back in again. --Bobby Evans On 4/5/12 1:54 PM, Mark question markq2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, quick question: Are there any performance gains from hadoop streaming or pipes over Java? From what I've read, it's only to ease testing by using your favorite language. So I guess it is eventually translated to bytecode then executed. Is that true? Thank you, Mark
Hadoop streaming or pipes ..
Hi guys, quick question: Are there any performance gains from hadoop streaming or pipes over Java? From what I've read, it's only to ease testing by using your favorite language. So I guess it is eventually translated to bytecode then executed. Is that true? Thank you, Mark
Re: Hadoop streaming or pipes ..
Both streaming and pipes do very similar things. They will fork/exec a separate process that is running whatever you want it to run. The JVM that is running hadoop then communicates with this process to send the data over and get the processing results back. The difference between streaming and pipes is that streaming uses stdin/stdout for this communication so preexisting processing like grep, sed and awk can be used here. Pipes uses a custom protocol with a C++ library to communicate. The C++ library is tagged with SWIG compatible data so that it can be wrapped to have APIs in other languages like python or perl. I am not sure what the performance difference is between the two, but in my own work I have seen a significant performance penalty from using either of them, because there is a somewhat large overhead of sending all of the data out to a separate process just to read it back in again. --Bobby Evans On 4/5/12 1:54 PM, Mark question markq2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, quick question: Are there any performance gains from hadoop streaming or pipes over Java? From what I've read, it's only to ease testing by using your favorite language. So I guess it is eventually translated to bytecode then executed. Is that true? Thank you, Mark
Re: Hadoop streaming or pipes ..
Thanks for the response Robert .. so the overhead will be in read/write and communication. But is the new process spawned a JVM or a regular process? Thanks, Mark On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Both streaming and pipes do very similar things. They will fork/exec a separate process that is running whatever you want it to run. The JVM that is running hadoop then communicates with this process to send the data over and get the processing results back. The difference between streaming and pipes is that streaming uses stdin/stdout for this communication so preexisting processing like grep, sed and awk can be used here. Pipes uses a custom protocol with a C++ library to communicate. The C++ library is tagged with SWIG compatible data so that it can be wrapped to have APIs in other languages like python or perl. I am not sure what the performance difference is between the two, but in my own work I have seen a significant performance penalty from using either of them, because there is a somewhat large overhead of sending all of the data out to a separate process just to read it back in again. --Bobby Evans On 4/5/12 1:54 PM, Mark question markq2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, quick question: Are there any performance gains from hadoop streaming or pipes over Java? From what I've read, it's only to ease testing by using your favorite language. So I guess it is eventually translated to bytecode then executed. Is that true? Thank you, Mark
Re: Hadoop streaming or pipes ..
Also bear in mind that there is a kind of detour involved, in the sense that a pipes map must send key,value data back to the Java process and then to reduce (more or less). I think that the Hadoop C Extension (HCE, there is a patch) is supposed to be faster. Would be interested to know if the community has any experience with HCE performance. C On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Both streaming and pipes do very similar things. They will fork/exec a separate process that is running whatever you want it to run. The JVM that is running hadoop then communicates with this process to send the data over and get the processing results back. The difference between streaming and pipes is that streaming uses stdin/stdout for this communication so preexisting processing like grep, sed and awk can be used here. Pipes uses a custom protocol with a C++ library to communicate. The C++ library is tagged with SWIG compatible data so that it can be wrapped to have APIs in other languages like python or perl. I am not sure what the performance difference is between the two, but in my own work I have seen a significant performance penalty from using either of them, because there is a somewhat large overhead of sending all of the data out to a separate process just to read it back in again. --Bobby Evans On 4/5/12 1:54 PM, Mark question markq2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, quick question: Are there any performance gains from hadoop streaming or pipes over Java? From what I've read, it's only to ease testing by using your favorite language. So I guess it is eventually translated to bytecode then executed. Is that true? Thank you, Mark
