[infinispan-dev] Infinispan - Hadoop integration

[Mircea Markus]

On Mar 13, 2014, at 20:59, Ales Justin <ales.justin at gmail.com> wrote:

>> - also important to notice that we will have both an Hadoop and an Infinispan cluster running in parallel: the user will interact with the former in order to run M/R tasks. Hadoop will use Infinispan (integration achieved through InputFormat and OutputFormat ) in order to get the data to be processed. 
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> Would this be 2 JVMs, or you can trick Hadoop to start Infinispan as well -- hence 1JVM?

good point, ideally it should be a single VM: reduced serialization cost (in vm access) and simpler architecture. That's if you're not using C/S mode, of course.

Cheers,
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Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)