Re: Extracting data from SSTable files with MapReduce

2013-04-16 Thread aaron morton
> I did try to upgrade to 1.2 but it did not work out. Maybe to many versions > in between. Newer versions should be able to read older file formats. What was the error? > Why would later formats make this easier you think? it will be easier to write against the current code base and you find it

Re: Extracting data from SSTable files with MapReduce

2013-04-15 Thread Jasper K.
Hi Aaron, I did try to upgrade to 1.2 but it did not work out. Maybe to many versions in between. Why would later formats make this easier you think? Jasper 2013/4/14 aaron morton > The SSTable files are in the -f- format from 0.8.10. > > If you can upgrade to the latest version it will mak

Re: Extracting data from SSTable files with MapReduce

2013-04-14 Thread aaron morton
> The SSTable files are in the -f- format from 0.8.10. If you can upgrade to the latest version it will make things easier. Start a node and use nodetool upgradesstables. The org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport class provides a blue print for reading rows from disk. hope that helps. ---

Extracting data from SSTable files with MapReduce

2013-04-13 Thread Jasper K.
Hi, Does anyone have any experience with running a MapReduce directly against a CF's SSTable files? I have a use case where this seems to be an option. I want to export all data from a CF to a flat file format for statistical analysis. Some factors that make it (more) doable in my case: -The Cas