Read from a buffer/stream..

[Mithila Nagendra <mn...@asu.edu>]

Hey guys
I am currently working on a project where I need the input to be read by the
map/reduce word count program as and when it is generated - I don't want the
input to be stored in a text file. Is there a way hadoop can read from a
stream? Its similar to the producer-consumer problem - word count is the
consumer and the producer is some program spitting out the words.

Thanks!
Mithila