Assuming that the server can handle high volume and multiple queries there
is no reason not to run it on a large and powerful machine outside the
cluster. Nothing prevents your mappers from accessing a server or even,
depending on the design, a custom InputFormat from pulling data from the
server.
Hello!
I'm working on a research project, and I also happen to be relatively new
to Hadoop/MapReduce. So apologies ahead of time for any glaring errors.
On my local machine, my project runs within a JVM and uses a Java API to
communicate with a Prolog server to do information lookups. I was plann
