Chaining Multiple Map reduce jobs.

2009-04-08 Thread asif md
hi everyone, i have to chain multiple map reduce jobs < actually 2 to 4 jobs >, each of the jobs depends on the o/p of preceding job. In the reducer of each job I'm doing very little < just grouping by key from the maps>. I want to give the output of one MapReduce job to the next job without havin

Re: Chaining Multiple Map reduce jobs.

2009-04-08 Thread Lukáš Vlček
Hi, by far I am not an Hadoop expert but I think you can not start Map task until the previous Reduce is finished. Saying this it means that you probably have to store the Map output to the disk first (because a] it may not fit into memory and b] you would risk data loss if the system crashes). As

Re: Chaining Multiple Map reduce jobs.

2009-04-08 Thread Nathan Marz
You can also try decreasing the replication factor for the intermediate files between jobs. This will make writing those files faster. On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Lukáš Vlček wrote: Hi, by far I am not an Hadoop expert but I think you can not start Map task until the previous Reduce is f

Re: Chaining Multiple Map reduce jobs.

2009-04-08 Thread jason hadoop
Chapter 8 of my book covers this in detail, the alpha chapter should be available at the apress web site Chain mapping rules! http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219424 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Nathan Marz wrote: > You can also try decreasing the replication factor for the intermediate >