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Aaron Kimball commented on HADOOP-5967:
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Hudson's test failures are unrelated...


> Sqoop should only use a single map task
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>                 Key: HADOOP-5967
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5967
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Aaron Kimball
>            Assignee: Aaron Kimball
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: single-mapper.patch
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>
> The current DBInputFormat implementation uses SELECT ... LIMIT ... OFFSET statements to read from a database table. This actually results in several queries all accessing the same table at the same time. Most database implementations will actually use a full table scan for each such query, starting at row 1 and scanning down until the OFFSET is reached before emitting data to the client. The upshot of this is that we see O(n^2) performance in the size of the table when using a large number of mappers, when a single mapper would read through the table in O(n) time in the number of rows.
> This patch sets the number of map tasks to 1 in the MapReduce job sqoop launches.

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