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Hadoop Development - CSC

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<strong>Hadoop</strong> Architectural Overview (cont’d)<br />

• HDFS is designed for Write Once/Read Many operations<br />

• HDFS block sizes are big<br />

– 64MB, 128MB and 256MB are common<br />

– To maximise disk read throughput<br />

• <strong>Hadoop</strong> runs one Map task for each HDFS block in the data to be processed and<br />

takes approx one minute to start a map task so execution needs to take at least<br />

one minute<br />

• Increase block size to increase task execution time<br />

TBSC 2009<br />

11/10/2011 12:53 PM 0725-23_TBSC 2009 14

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