Hi hadoopers,
I have been told that Sequential files are created from many small junks of files placed in HDFS. I have lot of such files in Feed analytics project. I hope this would help me to free up considerable space in HDFS blocked by small html files.

So, we accept a directory as input in this program. All files inside the directory would be put inside a sequential file.
This folder is my input.
$ hadoop fs -ls /user/hadoop/lab20/input Found 2 items -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 79 2016-10-08 19:32 /user/hadoop/lab20/input/employee.csv -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 36 2016-10-08 19:32 /user/hadoop/lab20/input/salary.csv
Here is the mapper
package org.grassfield.nandu.etl;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper;
public class SeqFileMapper
extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, Text> {
@Override
protected void map(LongWritable key, Text value,
Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, Text>.Context context)
throws IOException, InterruptedException {
context.write(new Text(key.toString()), value);
}
}
Here is the reducer
package org.grassfield.nandu.etl;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer;
public class SeqFileReducer
extends Reducer<Text, Text, Text, Text> {
@Override
protected void reduce(Text key, Iterable<Text> values,
Reducer<Text, Text, Text, Text>.Context context)
throws IOException, InterruptedException {
for (Text value:values){
context.write(key, value);
}
}
}
Here is the Driver
package org.grassfield.nandu.etl;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.SequenceFileOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.Tool;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner;
public class SeqFileJob extends Configured implements Tool {
@Override
public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
Job job = new Job(getConf());
Configuration conf = job.getConfiguration();
job.setJarByClass(this.getClass());
job.setJobName("Sequential File Job");
FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, new Path(args[0]));
FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));
job.setMapperClass(SeqFileMapper.class);
job.setReducerClass(SeqFileReducer.class);
job.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
job.setOutputFormatClass(SequenceFileOutputFormat.class);
job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
job.setOutputValueClass(Text.class);
job.setNumReduceTasks(1);
job.waitForCompletion(true);
return 0;
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
ToolRunner.run(new Configuration(), new SeqFileJob(), args);
}
}
Let’s execute it.
$ hadoop jar FeedCategoryCount-20.jar org.grassfield.nandu.etl.SeqFileJob /user/hadoop/lab20/input /user/hadoop/lab20/02 $ hadoop fs -ls /user/hadoop/lab20/02 Found 2 items -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 0 2016-10-08 19:36 /user/hadoop/lab20/02/_SUCCESS -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 256 2016-10-08 19:36 /user/hadoop/lab20/02/part-r-00000
And here is the output! $ hadoop fs -cat /user/hadoop/lab20/02/part-r-00000 SEQorg.apache.hadoop.io.Textorg.apache.hadoop.io.Text㜄▒Ӛ▒▒▒▒#▒▒▒▒# 101,200020/101,Duryodhana,Dhritarashtra,Gandhari,Bhanumati 1101,4000 2102,3000"48102,Bheema,Pandu,Kunti,Hidimbi 102,1500