Expanding on Alan’s post:
Files are intended to span many blocks and a single file may be read by many
mappers. In order for a file to be read by many mappers, it goes through a
process called input splits which splits the input around hdfs block boundaries.
If a unit of data within a file crosses a hdfs block, a portion of that unit of
data must be sent from the node which contains block/mapper of one portion to
the node that contains the block/mapper of the other portion. Take a csv file
for example, in this case a unit of data is a line, and transferring a portion
of a line between boxes is no big deal.
This changes a bit for orc files as the unit of data is a stripe. An orc stripe
is typically a few hundred MB. Without some additional logic, a substantial
part of data locality would be lost; however, orc has such additional logic.
The stripe size of the orc file should be set a few MB below the hdfs block
size and padding enable to produce a 1:1 relationship between an orc stripe and
an hdfs block. How many stripes or blocks that are “in" a single file is of no
consequence so long as this 1:1 relationship is maintained.
Below is an example config for 128mb hdfs blocks.
Configuration writerConf = new Configuration();
// other config
OrcFile.WriterOptions writerOptions =
OrcFile.writerOptions(writerConf);
writerOptions.blockPadding(true);
writerOptions.stripeSize(122 * 1024 * 1024);
// other options
Writer writer = OrcFile.createWriter(path, writerOptions);
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Subject: Re: ORC file across multiple HDFS blocks
to cross blocks and hence n
