Time for action – reduce-side join using MultipleInputs

We can perform the report explained in the previous section using a reduce-side join by performing the following steps:

  1. Create the following tab-separated file and name it sales.txt:
    00135.992012-03-15
00212.492004-07-02
00413.422005-12-20
003499.992010-12-20
00178.952012-04-02
00221.992006-11-30
00293.452008-09-10
0019.992012-05-17
  2. Create the following tab-separated file and name it accounts.txt:
    001John AllenStandard2012-03-15
002Abigail SmithPremium2004-07-13
003April StevensStandard2010-12-20
004Nasser HafezPremium2001-04-23
  3. Copy the datafiles onto HDFS.
    $ hadoop fs -mkdir sales
$ hadoop fs -put sales.txt sales/sales.txt
$ hadoop fs -mkdir accounts
$ hadoop fs -put accounts/accounts.txt

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