Re: Basic Doubt in Hadoop

2013-04-17 Thread maisnam ns
@Bejoy Adding a little bit here,the ouput of map task writes first to a memory buffer, and when contents reaches a threshold a background thread will write the contents to disk. Niranjan Singh On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Ramesh R Nair wrote: > Hi Bejoy, > >Regarding the output of Map p

Re: Basic Doubt in Hadoop

2013-04-17 Thread bejoy . hadoop
You are correct, map outputs are stored in LFS not in HDFS. Regards Bejoy KS Sent from remote device, Please excuse typos -Original Message- From: Ramesh R Nair Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:06:32 To: ; Subject: Re: Basic Doubt in Hadoop Hi Bejoy, Regarding the output of Map phase

Re: Basic Doubt in Hadoop

2013-04-17 Thread Ramesh R Nair
Hi Bejoy, Regarding the output of Map phase, does Hadoop store it in local fs or in HDFS. I believe it is in the former. Correct me if I am wrong. Regards Ramesh On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM, wrote: > The data is in HDFS in case of WordCount MR sample. > > In hdfs, you have the met

Re: Basic Doubt in Hadoop

2013-04-16 Thread bejoy . hadoop
The data is in HDFS in case of WordCount MR sample. In hdfs, you have the metadata in NameNode and actual data as blocks replicated across DataNodes. In case of reducer, If a reducer is running on a particular node then you have one replica of the blocks in the same node (If there is no space