Hello list,
sorry, sent this email to the wrong list, I think (MapReduce-list had
*no* activity the last whole day?).
As a newbie I got a tricky use-case in mind which I want to implement
with Hadoop to train my skillz. There is no real scenario behind that,
so I can extend or shrink the problem to the extent I like. The problems
I got are coming from a conceptual point of view and from the lack of
experience with Hadoop itself.
Here is what I want to do:
I create random lists of person-IDs and places plus a time-value.
The result of my map-reduce-operations should be something like that:
The key is a place and the value is a list of places that were visited
by persons after they visited the key-place.
Additionally the value should be sorted in a way were I use some
time/count-biased metric. This way the value-list should reflect the
place which was the most popular i.e. second-station on a tour.
I think this is a complex almost real-world-scenario.
In pseudo-code it will be something like this:
for every place p
for every person m that visited p
select list l of all the places that m visited after p
write a key-value-pair p=>l to disc and l is in order of the visits
for every key k in the list of key-value-pairs
get the value list of places v for k -
create another key-value-pair pv where the key is the place and
the value is its index in v (for a place p in v)
for every k
get all pv
for every pv aggregate the key-value-pairs by key and sum up
the index i for every place p so that it becomes the kv-pair opv
sort opv in ascending order by its value
The result would be what I wanted, no?
It looks like I need multiple MR-phases, however I do not even know how
to start.
My first guess is: Create a MR-Job where I invert my list so that I got
a place as the key and as value all persons that visited it.
The next phase needs to iterate over the value's persons and join with
the original data to get an idea of when this person visited this place
and what places came next.
And now the problems arise:
- First: What happens to places that are so popular that the number of
persons that visited it is so large, that I can not pass the whole
KV-pair to a single node to iterate over it?
- Second: I need to re-join the original data. Without a database this
would be extremely slow, wouldn't it?
I hope that you guys can give me some ideas and input to make my first
serious steps in Hadoop-land.
Regards,
Em
