Re: Number of Mapper when reading from Cassandra

2014-03-28 Thread Amjad ALSHABANI
Thanx Chinna, I have another question. Now I know that InputForamt is an interface in apache hadoop, so what I get (and correct me if I m wrong) that it is Hive implementation who makes all that splits , is it ? or it is because of using of Cassandra? In both cases, can I do anything to manage th

Re: Number of Mapper when reading from Cassandra

2014-03-28 Thread Chinna Rao Lalam
Hi, Number of mappers will depend on some factors like, 1.The number of mappers is defined based on our data size (By default set to one per HDFS block). 2.The number of mappers depends on amount of InputSplit generated by InputFormat#getInputSplits method. In particular FileInputSplit splits in