Re: sharing variables across chained jobs

2009-12-23 Thread Jason Venner
If your jobs are launched by separate jvm instances, the only real persistence framework you have is hdfs. You have to basic choices: 1. Write a summary data to a persistent store, an hdfs file being a simple case, that your next job reads 2. Write the data you need as a job counter,

Re: sharing variables across chained jobs

2009-12-23 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Jason Venner jason.had...@gmail.comwrote: If your jobs are launched by separate jvm instances, the only real persistence framework you have is hdfs. You have to basic choices: 1. Write a summary data to a persistent store, an hdfs file being a simple

sharing variables across chained jobs

2009-12-22 Thread Himanshu
Hi everyone, I run multiple map/reduce jobs which are chained together. The output of one map/reduce is the input of another. There are also some integer valued variables which are outputted from one map/reduce job and used as input in the consequent one. These variables are got by summing up