No, map-reduce is not really necessary to add so few rows. Our internal tests repeatedly load 10-100 million rows without much fuss. And that is on clusters ranging from 3 to 11 nodes.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Stuart Scott <stuart.sc...@e-mis.com>wrote: > Is the only way to upload (say 1,000,000 rows) via map reduce? Or should > we be able to just 'put' new records without the system failing apart? >