If Akira was to write his/her own Mappers, using types like IntWritable would result in it being numerically sorted right?
Cheers, Tim On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Aaron Kimball <aa...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Simplest possible solution: zero-pad your keys to ten places? > > - Aaron > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Akira Kitada <akit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> By default Hadoop does ASCII sort the mapper's output, not numeric sort. >> However, I often want the framework to sort >> records in numeric order. >> Can I make the framework to do numeric sort? >> (I use Hadoop Streaming) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Akira >> >