[jira] [Created] (MAPREDUCE-3247) Add hash aggregation style data flow and/or new API

["Binglin Chang (Created) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Add hash aggregation style data flow and/or new API
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                 Key: MAPREDUCE-3247
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3247
             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: task
    Affects Versions: 0.23.0
            Reporter: Binglin Chang


In many join/aggregation like queries run on top of mapreduce, sort is not need, in fact a hash table based join/aggregation is more efficient, this is described in "Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework" in detail. There are two ways to support hash table based join/aggregation in hadoop mapreduce:

# Only support no sort, the framework do nothing, just pass partitioned k/v pair from mapper to reducer
   The upper application use hash table in their mapper & reducer to do aggregation, and emit all hashtable enties in cleanup() of mapper/reducer, this is how Google did in Tenzing. The main problem is memory control of hashtable.

# Add new "fold" API, it can coexist with combiner/reducer API, user can use mapper-combiner-reducer or "mapper-folder" (maybe a bad name, welcome to propose a better name..)
   Like foldl in functional programming: folder should have the semantic:
     foldl folder z (x:xs)  =   foldl folder (folder z x) xs
   In this way, upper applications only need to provide folder, underlying framework create and maintains hashtable for key/value pairs, it can be managed & optimized by the framework. For example, in mapper side, we can pre emit entire hashtable or use some policies like cache algorithm to emit part of k/v pairs to free some memory, if the memory consumption reach io.sort.mb



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