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Big Data Simplified
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Big Data Simplified

by Sayan Goswami, Amit Kumar Das, Sourabh Mukherjee
June 2019
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
10h 55m
English
Pearson Education India
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7. We can run the mapper and reducer on local files (for example, python-input.txt). In order
to run the Map and Reduce on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), we need the
Hadoop Streaming jar library. So, before we run the scripts on Hadoop engine, test locally to
ensure that they are working fine.
Run the mapper.
cat python-input.txt | python mapper.py
Run reducer.py
cat python-input.txt | python mapper.py | sort -k1,1 | python
reducer.py
Our testing in local has completed as the mapper and reducer are working as expected so we
won’t face any further issues.
9.4.4 Running the MapReduce ...
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