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Fredrik HedbergFeb 6, 2009 5:40 am 
Subject:Re: How to use DBInputFormat?
From:Fredrik Hedberg (fred@avafan.com)
Date:Feb 6, 2009 5:40:16 am
List:org.apache.hadoop.core-user

Well, that obviously depend on the RDBMS' implementation. And although the case is not as bad as you describe (otherwise you better ask your RDBMS vendor for your money back), your point is valid. But then again, a RDBMS is not designed for that kind of work.

What do you mean by "creating splits/map tasks on the fly dynamically"?

Fredrik

On Feb 5, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Stefan Podkowinski wrote:

As far as i understand the main problem is that you need to create splits from streaming data with an unknown number of records and offsets. Its just the same problem as with externally compressed data (.gz). You need to go through the complete stream (or do a table scan) to create logical splits. Afterwards each map task needs to seek to the appropriate offset on a new stream over again. Very expansive. As with compressed files, no wonder only one map task is started for each .gz file and will consume the complete file. IMHO the DBInputFormat should follow this behavior and just create 1 split whatsoever. Maybe a future version of hadoop will allow to create splits/map tasks on the fly dynamically?

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Fredrik Hedberg <fred@avafan.com> wrote:

Indeed sir.

The implementation was designed like you describe for two reasons. First and foremost to make is as simple as possible for the user to use a JDBC database as input and output for Hadoop. Secondly because of the specific requirements the MapReduce framework brings to the table (split distribution, split reproducibility etc).

This design will, as you note, never handle the same amount of data as HBase (or HDFS), and was never intended to. That being said, there are a couple of ways that the current design could be augmented to perform better (and, as in its current form, tweaked, depending on you data and computational requirements). Shard awareness is one way, which would let each database/tasktracker-node execute mappers on data where each split is a single database server for example.

If you have any ideas on how the current design can be improved, please do share.

On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Stefan Podkowinski wrote:

The 0.19 DBInputFormat class implementation is IMHO only suitable for very simple queries working on only few datasets. Thats due to the fact that it tries to create splits from the query by 1) getting a count of all rows using the specified count query (huge performance impact on large tables) 2) creating splits by issuing an individual query for each split with a "limit" and "offset" parameter appended to the input sql query

Effectively your input query "select * from orders" would become "select * from orders limit <splitlength> offset <splitstart>" and executed until count has been reached. I guess this is not working sql syntax for oracle.

2009/2/4 Amandeep Khurana <ama@gmail.com>:

Adding a semicolon gives me the error "ORA-00911: Invalid character"

Amandeep

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Rasit OZDAS <rasi@gmail.com> wrote:

Amandeep, "SQL command not properly ended" I get this error whenever I forget the semicolon at the end. I know, it doesn't make sense, but I recommend giving it a try

Rasit

2009/2/4 Amandeep Khurana <ama@gmail.com>:

The same query is working if I write a simple JDBC client and query the database. So, I'm probably doing something wrong in the connection

settings.

But the error looks to be on the query side more than the connection

side.

Amandeep

Amandeep Khurana Computer Science Graduate Student University of California, Santa Cruz

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Amandeep Khurana <ama@gmail.com

wrote:

Thanks Kevin

I couldnt get it work. Here's the error I get:

bin/hadoop jar ~/dbload.jar LoadTable1 09/02/03 19:21:17 INFO jvm.JvmMetrics: Initializing JVM Metrics with processName=JobTracker, sessionId= 09/02/03 19:21:20 INFO mapred.JobClient: Running job: job_local_0001 09/02/03 19:21:21 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 0% reduce 0% 09/02/03 19:21:22 INFO mapred.MapTask: numReduceTasks: 0 09/02/03 19:21:24 WARN mapred.LocalJobRunner: job_local_0001 java.io.IOException: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended

at

org .apache .hadoop .mapred.lib.db.DBInputFormat.getRecordReader(DBInputFormat.java: 289)

at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:321) at

org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner $Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:138) java.io.IOException: Job failed! at

org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:1217)

at LoadTable1.run(LoadTable1.java:130) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java: 65) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java: 79) at LoadTable1.main(LoadTable1.java:107) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown

Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:165) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java: 65) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java: 79) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68)

Exception closing file

/user/amkhuran/contract_table/_temporary/ _attempt_local_0001_m_000000_0/part-00000

java.io.IOException: Filesystem closed at

org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.checkOpen(DFSClient.java:198)

at

org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.access$600(DFSClient.java:65)

at

org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient $DFSOutputStream.closeInternal(DFSClient.java:3084)

at

org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient $DFSOutputStream.close(DFSClient.java:3053)

at

org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient $LeaseChecker.close(DFSClient.java:942) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.close(DFSClient.java: 210) at

org .apache .hadoop .hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.close(DistributedFileSystem.java:243)

at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.closeAll(FileSystem.java: 1413) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.closeAll(FileSystem.java:236) at

org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem $ClientFinalizer.run(FileSystem.java:221)

Here's my code:

public class LoadTable1 extends Configured implements Tool {

// data destination on hdfs private static final String CONTRACT_OUTPUT_PATH =

"contract_table";

// The JDBC connection URL and driver implementation class

private static final String CONNECT_URL = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@dbhost :1521:PSEDEV"; private static final String DB_USER = "user"; private static final String DB_PWD = "pass"; private static final String DATABASE_DRIVER_CLASS = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";

private static final String CONTRACT_INPUT_TABLE = "OSE_EPR_CONTRACT";

private static final String [] CONTRACT_INPUT_TABLE_FIELDS = { "PORTFOLIO_NUMBER", "CONTRACT_NUMBER"};

private static final String ORDER_CONTRACT_BY_COL = "CONTRACT_NUMBER";

static class ose_epr_contract implements Writable, DBWritable {

String CONTRACT_NUMBER;

public void readFields(DataInput in) throws IOException {

this.CONTRACT_NUMBER = Text.readString(in);

}

public void write(DataOutput out) throws IOException {

Text.writeString(out, this.CONTRACT_NUMBER);

}

public void readFields(ResultSet in_set) throws SQLException {

this.CONTRACT_NUMBER = in_set.getString(1);

}

@Override public void write(PreparedStatement prep_st) throws SQLException

{

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

}

public static class LoadMapper extends MapReduceBase implements Mapper<LongWritable, ose_epr_contract, Text, NullWritable> { private static final char FIELD_SEPARATOR = 1;

public void map(LongWritable arg0, ose_epr_contract arg1, OutputCollector<Text, NullWritable> arg2, Reporter arg3) throws IOException {

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); ; sb.append(arg1.CONTRACT_NUMBER);

arg2.collect(new Text (sb.toString()), NullWritable.get());

}

}

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"); int exit = ToolRunner.run(new LoadTable1(), args);

}

public int run(String[] arg0) throws Exception { JobConf conf = new JobConf(getConf(), LoadTable1.class);

conf.setInputFormat(DBInputFormat.class); DBConfiguration.configureDB(conf, DATABASE_DRIVER_CLASS, CONNECT_URL, DB_USER, DB_PWD);

DBInputFormat.setInput(conf, ose_epr_contract.class, "select CONTRACT_NUMBER from OSE_EPR_CONTRACT", "select COUNT(CONTRACT_NUMBER) from OSE_EPR_CONTRACT"); FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(conf, new Path(CONTRACT_OUTPUT_PATH));

conf.setMapperClass(LoadMapper.class); conf.setNumReduceTasks(0);

conf.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class); conf.setOutputValueClass(NullWritable.class);

JobClient.runJob(conf);

return 0; } }

-Amandeep

Amandeep Khurana Computer Science Graduate Student University of California, Santa Cruz

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Kevin Peterson <kpet@biz360.com

wrote:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Amandeep Khurana <ama@gmail.com

wrote:

In the setInput(...) function in DBInputFormat, there are two sets of arguments that one can use.

1. public static void *setInput*(JobConf

a) In this, do we necessarily have to give all the fieldNames (which

are

the column names right?) that the table has, or do we need to specify

only

the

ones that we want to extract?

You may specify only those columns that you are interested in.

b) Do we have to have a orderBy or not necessarily? Does this relate to the

primary key in the table in any ways?

Conditions and order by are not necessary.

a) Is there any restriction on the kind of queries that this function

can take in the inputQuery string?

I don't think so, but I don't use this method -- I just use the

fieldNames

and tableName method.

I am facing issues in getting this to work with an Oracle database

and

have no idea of how to debug it (an email sent earlier). Can anyone give me some inputs on this please?

Create a new table that has one column, put about five entries into

that

table, then try to get a map job working that outputs the values to a

text

file. If that doesn't work, post your code and errors.