[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-3227) Implement a binary input/output format for Streaming

["Owen O'Malley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-3227:
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I agree with Runping. For input, you *need* to know the record breaks, or you can't split file between maps. This requires that \n be special and therefore quoted when in the non-record boundary case. I think we should just do that quoting so that the streaming apps can just echo their input to output and get an Identity map/reduce. Of course this all got a little trickier now that you can change the delimiter from tab to an arbitrary string...

> Implement a binary input/output format for Streaming
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3227
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3227
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: contrib/streaming
>            Reporter: Arun C Murthy
>            Assignee: Arun C Murthy
>
> Lots of streaming applications process textual data with 1 record per line and fields separated by a delimiter. It turns out that there is no point in using any of Hadoop's input/output formats since the streaming script/binary itself will parse the input and break into records and fields. In such cases we should provide users with a binary input/output format which just sends 64k (or so) blocks of data directly from HDFS to the streaming application.
> I did something very similar for Pig-Streaming (PIG-94 - BinaryStorage) which resulted in 300%+ speedup for scanning (identity mapper & map-only jobs) data... the parsing done by input/output formats in these cases were pure-overhead.

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