MultipleOutputFormat in hadoop

Question

I\'m a newbie in Hadoop. I\'m trying out the Wordcount program.

Now to try out multiple output files, i use MultipleOutputFormat. this link helped me

Answer 1

Multiple Output files will be generated based on number of reducers.

You can use hadoop dfs -getmerge to merged outputs

Answer 2

I wrote a class for doing this. Just use it your job:

job.setOutputFormatClass(m_customOutputFormatClass);

This is the my class:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.RecordWriter;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.TextOutputFormat;

/**
 * TextOutputFormat extension which enables writing the mapper/reducer's output in multiple files.<br>
 * <p>
 * <b>WARNING</b>: The number of different folder shuoldn't be large for one mapper since we keep an
 * {@link RecordWriter} instance per folder name.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * In this class the folder name is defined by the written entry's key.<br>
 * To change this behavior simply extend this class and override the
 * {@link HdMultipleFileOutputFormat#getFolderNameExtractor()} method and create your own
 * {@link FolderNameExtractor} implementation.
 * </p>
 * 
 * 
 * @author ykesten
 * 
 * @param <K> - Keys type
 * @param <V> - Values type
 */
public class HdMultipleFileOutputFormat<K, V> extends TextOutputFormat<K, V> {

    private String folderName;

    private class MultipleFilesRecordWriter extends RecordWriter<K, V> {

        private Map<String, RecordWriter<K, V>> fileNameToWriter;
        private FolderNameExtractor<K, V> fileNameExtractor;
        private TaskAttemptContext job;

        public MultipleFilesRecordWriter(FolderNameExtractor<K, V> fileNameExtractor, TaskAttemptContext job) {
            fileNameToWriter = new HashMap<String, RecordWriter<K, V>>();
            this.fileNameExtractor = fileNameExtractor;
            this.job = job;
        }

        @Override
        public void write(K key, V value) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            String fileName = fileNameExtractor.extractFolderName(key, value);
            RecordWriter<K, V> writer = fileNameToWriter.get(fileName);
            if (writer == null) {
                writer = createNewWriter(fileName, fileNameToWriter, job);
                if (writer == null) {
                    throw new IOException("Unable to create writer for path: " + fileName);
                }
            }
            writer.write(key, value);
        }

        @Override
        public void close(TaskAttemptContext context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            for (Entry<String, RecordWriter<K, V>> entry : fileNameToWriter.entrySet()) {
                entry.getValue().close(context);
            }
        }

    }

    private synchronized RecordWriter<K, V> createNewWriter(String folderName,
            Map<String, RecordWriter<K, V>> fileNameToWriter, TaskAttemptContext job) {
        try {
            this.folderName = folderName;
            RecordWriter<K, V> writer = super.getRecordWriter(job);
            this.folderName = null;
            fileNameToWriter.put(folderName, writer);
            return writer;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Path getDefaultWorkFile(TaskAttemptContext context, String extension) throws IOException {
        Path path = super.getDefaultWorkFile(context, extension);
        if (folderName != null) {
            String newPath = path.getParent().toString() + "/" + folderName + "/" + path.getName();
            path = new Path(newPath);
        }
        return path;
    }

    @Override
    public RecordWriter<K, V> getRecordWriter(TaskAttemptContext job) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        return new MultipleFilesRecordWriter(getFolderNameExtractor(), job);
    }

    public FolderNameExtractor<K, V> getFolderNameExtractor() {
        return new KeyFolderNameExtractor<K, V>();
    }

    public interface FolderNameExtractor<K, V> {
        public String extractFolderName(K key, V value);
    }

    private static class KeyFolderNameExtractor<K, V> implements FolderNameExtractor<K, V> {
        public String extractFolderName(K key, V value) {
            return key.toString();
        }
    }

}

Answer 3

Each reducer uses an OutputFormat to write records to. So that's why you are getting a set of odd and even files per reducer. This is by design so that each reducer can perform writes in parallel.

If you want just a single odd and single even file, you'll need to set mapred.reduce.tasks to 1. But performance will suffer, because all the mappers will be feeding into a single reducer.

Another option is to change the process the reads these files to accept multiple input files, or write a separate process that merges these files together.