Passing values from Mapper to Reducer
问题 There is a little amount of meta-data that I get by looking up the current file the mapper is working on (and a few other things). I need to send over this meta-data to the reducer. Sure, I can have the mapper emit this in the < Key, Value> pair it generates as < Key, Value + Meta-Data> , but I want to avoid it. Also, constraining myself a little bit more, I do not want to use DistributedCahce. So, do I still have some options left? More precisely, my question is twofold (1) I tried setting