Re: TableReducer keyout

2012-06-19 Thread Harsh J
Hey Kevin, (Moved this to the HBase user lists as it is more appropriate there - cause of the libs you are using per your question. BCC'd mapreduce-user and CC'd you in case you aren't subscribed to HBase user lists). The TableOutputFormat ignores keys. So it is safe to pass a null object. This

TableReducer keyout

2012-06-18 Thread Kevin
Hi, I am going through some samples of using MapReduce with HBase. My question is concerning the importance of the KEYOUT type of a TableReducer. Does the output key really matter if the output value must always be a Put or a Delete instance, in which the row key for the sink table is always