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MapReduce Tutorial : Exercise - sorting

You are given data consisting of (31-bit integer, string data) pairs. These are available in plain text format:

Path Size
/home/straka/hadoop/example-inputs/numbers-small 3MB
/home/straka/hadoop/example-inputs/numbers-medium 184MB
/home/straka/hadoop/example-inputs/numbers-large 916MB

You can assume that the integers are uniformly distributed.

Your task is to sort these data. Your solution should work for TBs of data. For that reason, you must use multiple reducers. If your job is executed using r reducers, the output consists of r files, which when concatenated would produce sorted (key, value) pairs. In other words, each of the output files contains sorted (integer, data) pairs and all keys in one file are either smaller or larger than in other file.

Nonuniform data

The
After solving

Path Size
/home/straka/hadoop/example-inputs/nonuniform-small 3MB
/home/straka/hadoop/example-inputs/nonuniform-medium 160MB
/home/straka/hadoop/example-inputs/nonuniform-large 797MB

After you


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