Secondary Sorting in Hadoop MapReduce

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Can anyone explain to me how secondary sorting works in Hadoop? Why must one use GroupingComparator and how does it work in Hadoop? I was going through the link given below and got doubt on how group comparator works. Can anyone explain to me how grouping comparator works?

Sep 5, 2019 in Big Data Hadoop by nitinrawat895
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Grouping Comparator

Once the data reaches a reducer, all data is grouped by key. Since we have a composite key, we need to make sure records are grouped solely by the natural key. This is accomplished by writing a custom GroupPartitioner. We have a Comparator object only considering the yearMonth field of the TemperaturePair class for the purposes of grouping the records together.

public class YearMonthGroupingComparator extends WritableComparator {

    public YearMonthGroupingComparator() {
        super(TemperaturePair.class, true);
    }

    @Override
    public int compare(WritableComparable tp1, WritableComparable tp2) {
        TemperaturePair temperaturePair = (TemperaturePair) tp1;
        TemperaturePair temperaturePair2 = (TemperaturePair) tp2;
        return temperaturePair.getYearMonth().compareTo(temperaturePair2.getYearMonth());
    }
}

Here are the results of running our secondary sort job:

new-host-2:sbin bbejeck$ hdfs dfs -cat secondary-sort/part-r-00000

190101 -206

190102 -333

190103 -272

190104 -61

190105 -33

190106 44

190107 72

190108 44

190109 17

190110 -33

190111 -217

190112 -300

While sorting data by value may not be a common need, it’s a nice tool to have in your back pocket when needed. Also, we have been able to take a deeper look at the inner workings of Hadoop by working with custom partitioners and group partitioners.

answered Sep 5, 2019 by ravikiran
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