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Subject: Updating SequenceFiles?
From: Robert Dyer <psybers@gmail.com>
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I am currently using a SequenceFile as input to my MR job (on Hadoop
1.0.3).  This works great, as my input is just a bunch of binary
blobs.

However it seems SequenceFile is only intended to append new data and
never update existing entries.  Is that correct?

If so, would i be better off moving to something like HBase?

- Robert