Hi,

Its possible by setting the num of reduce tasks to be 1. Based on your
example, it looks like u need to group ur records based on "Date, counter1
and counter2". So that should go in the logic of building your key for your
map o/p.

Thanks
Sudhan S

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Sahana Bhat <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>         I understand that given a file, the file is split across 'n' mapper
> instances, which is the normal case.
>
> The scenario i have is :
> 1. Two files which are not totally identical in terms of number of columns
> (but have data that is similar in a few columns) need to be processed and
> after computation a single output file has to be generated.
>
> Note : CV - computedvalue
>
> File1 belonging to one dataset has data for :
> Date,counter1,counter2, CV1,CV2
>
> File2 belonging to another dataset has data for :
> Date,counter1,counter2,CV3,CV4,CV5
>
> Computation to be carried out on these two files is :
> CV6 =(CV1*CV5)/100
>
> And the final emitted output file should have data in the sequence:
> Date,counter1,counter2,CV6
>
> The idea is to have two mappers (not instances) run on each of the file,
> and a single reducer that emits the final result file.
>
> Thanks,
> Sahana
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sahana,
>>
>> Yes. But, isn't that how it is normally? What makes you question this
>> capability?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Sahana Bhat <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >          Is it possible to have multiple mappers  where each mapper is
>> > operating on a different input file and whose result (which is a key
>> value
>> > pair from different mappers) is processed by a single reducer?
>> > Regards,
>> > Sahana
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Harsh J
>>
>
>

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