Re: Setting the number of mappers to 0

2010-07-09 Thread Eric Sammer
Ravi: Currently there's no way to avoid the map stage and the sort and shuffle that comes with it. The only real option is to have an identity mapper that passes the keys / values through as you're doing now. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Chinni, Ravi wrote: > I am trying to develop a MR appli

Setting the number of mappers to 0

2010-07-09 Thread Chinni, Ravi
I am trying to develop a MR application. Due to the kind of application I am trying to develop, the mapper is a dummy (passes it's input to it's output) task and I am only interested in having a partitioner and reducer. The MR framework allows us to set the number of reducers to 0. Is there a way