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courses:mapreduce-tutorial:step-11 [2012/01/25 20:55] straka |
courses:mapreduce-tutorial:step-11 [2012/01/31 09:39] (current) straka Change Perl commandline syntax. |
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- | ====== MapReduce Tutorial : Initialization and cleanup of MR tasks ====== | + | ====== MapReduce Tutorial : Initialization and cleanup of MR tasks, performance of combiners |
During the mapper or reducer task execution the following steps take place: | During the mapper or reducer task execution the following steps take place: | ||
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===== Exercise ===== | ===== Exercise ===== | ||
- | Improve the {{: | + | Improve the {{: |
- | Then measure | + | wget --no-check-certificate ' |
+ | # NOW EDIT THE FILE | ||
+ | # $EDITOR step-11-exercise.pl | ||
+ | rm -rf step-11-out-wout; | ||
+ | less step-11-out-wout/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Measure | ||
- | {{: | + | ==== Solution ==== |
+ | You can also download the solution | ||
- | ===== Combiners and Perl API ===== | + | wget --no-check-certificate ' |
+ | # NOW VIEW THE FILE | ||
+ | # $EDITOR step-11-solution.pl | ||
+ | rm -rf step-11-out-with-hash; | ||
+ | less step-11-out-with-hash/ | ||
- | As you have seen, the combiners are not efficient when using the Perl API. This is a problem of Perl API -- reading and writing the (key, value) pairs is relatively slow and a combiner does not help -- it in fact increases the number of (key, value) pairs that need to be read/ | + | |
+ | ===== Combiners and Perl API performance ===== | ||
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+ | As you have seen, the combiners are not very efficient when using the Perl API. This is a problem of the Perl API -- reading and writing the (key, value) pairs is relatively slow and a combiner does not help -- it in fact increases the number of (key, value) pairs that need to be read/ | ||
This is even more obvious with larger input data: | This is even more obvious with larger input data: | ||
- | ^ Script ^ Time to complete on ''/ | + | ^ Script ^ Time to complete on ''/ |
- | | {{: | + | | {{: |
- | | {{: | + | | {{: |
- | | {{: | + | | {{: |
For comparison, here are times of Java solutions: | For comparison, here are times of Java solutions: | ||
- | ^ Program ^ Time to complete on ''/ | + | ^ Program ^ Time to complete on ''/ |
- | | Wordcount without combiner | | | + | | Wordcount without combiner | 2mins, 26sec | 367MB | |
- | | Wordcount with combiner | 1min, 51sec | | + | | Wordcount with combiner | 1min, 51sec | 51MB | |
- | | Wordcount with hash in mapper | | | + | | Wordcount with hash in mapper | 1min, 14sec | 51MB | |
+ | Using the combiner is beneficial, although combining the word occurrences in mapper manually is still faster. | ||
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