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Posted to common-user@hadoop.apache.org by Phantom <gh...@gmail.com> on 2007/07/02 17:15:01 UTC

MapFile and sort order

Hi

Could someone please explain to me how the sorted order is maintained in the
MapFile ? Suppose I insert key k1 and then key k3 and later k2 how does the
MapFile keep them in sorted order. Overtime there could be many requests for
keys out of order.

Thanks
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