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Alejandro Abdelnur updated HADOOP-3149:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> supporting multiple outputs for M/R jobs
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> Key: HADOOP-3149
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3149
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: mapred
> Environment: all
> Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Attachments: patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt,
patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt, patch3149.txt
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> The outputcollector supports writing data to a single output, the 'part' files in the
output path.
> We found quite common that our M/R jobs have to write data to different output. For example
when classifying data as NEW, UPDATE, DELETE, NO-CHANGE to later do different processing on
it.
> Handling the initialization of additional outputs from within the M/R code complicates
the code and is counter intuitive with the notion of job configuration.
> It would be desirable to:
> # Configure the additional outputs in the jobconf, potentially specifying different outputformats,
key and value classes for each one.
> # Write to the additional outputs in a similar way as data is written to the outputcollector.
> # Support the speculative execution semantics for the output files, only visible in the
final output for promoted tasks.
> To support multiple outputs the following classes would be added to mapred/lib:
> * {{MOJobConf}} : extends {{JobConf}} adding methods to define named outputs (name, outputformat,
key class, value class)
> * {{MOOutputCollector}} : extends {{OutputCollector}} adding a {{collect(String outputName,
WritableComparable key, Writable value)}} method.
> * {{MOMapper}} and {{MOReducer}}: implement {{Mapper}} and {{Reducer}} adding a new {{configure}},
{{map}} and {{reduce}} signature that take the corresponding {{MO}} classes and performs the
proper initialization.
> The data flow behavior would be: key/values written to the default (unnamed) output (using
the original OutputCollector {{collect}} signature) take part of the shuffle/sort/reduce processing
phases. key/values written to a named output from within a map don't.
> The named output files would be named using the task type and task ID to avoid collision
among tasks (i.e. 'new-m-00002' and 'new-r-00001').
> Together with the setInputPathFilter feature introduced by HADOOP-2055 it would become
very easy to chain jobs working on particular named outputs within a single directory.
> We are using heavily this pattern and it greatly simplified our M/R code as well as chaining
different M/R.
> We wanted to contribute this back to Hadoop as we think is a generic feature many could
benefit from.
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