[jira] [Created] (TEZ-3215) Support for MultipleOutputs

["Ming Ma (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ming Ma created TEZ-3215:
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             Summary: Support for MultipleOutputs
                 Key: TEZ-3215
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEZ-3215
             Project: Apache Tez
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Ming Ma


Here is the use case. A reducer might write its output to more than one file. The file name will be based on the mapper key. We don't know all possible keys ahead of time. In MR, MultipleOutputs provides such support. I couldn't find anything readily available in Tez.

* Set up one DataSink per file ahead of time won't work as we don't know all possible keys.
* Use MR MultipleOutputs directly from the Tez application processor. It isn't clear how to pass TaskInputOutputContext to MultipleOutputs.
* Tez MROutput can create a DataSink based on the specified outputFormat. But it can't take MR MultipleOutputs.

I end up modifying Tez MROutput with HashMap {{recordWriters}} to achieve this. If this is a solved problem, can anyone explain how to do it?




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