gpmapreduce

    Prerequisites

    The following are required prior to running this program:

    • You must have your MapReduce job defined in a YAML file. See the Greenplum MapReduce Specification in the Greenplum Database Reference Guide for more information.
    • You must be a Greenplum Database superuser to run MapReduce jobs with and FILE inputs.
    • You must be a Greenplum Database superuser to run MapReduce jobs with GPFDIST input unless the the user has the appropriate rigths granted. See the Greenplum Database Reference Guide for more information.

    MapReduce is a programming model developed by Google for processing and generating large data sets on an array of commodity servers. Greenplum MapReduce allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce paradigm to write map and reduce functions and submit them to the Greenplum Database parallel engine for processing.

    In order for Greenplum to be able to process MapReduce functions, the functions need to be defined in a YAML document, which is then passed to the Greenplum MapReduce program, , for execution by the Greenplum Database parallel engine. The Greenplum system takes care of the details of distributing the input data, executing the program across a set of machines, handling machine failures, and managing the required inter-machine communication.

    Options

    -f yaml_file

    Required. The YAML file that contains the Greenplum MapReduce job definitions. See the Greenplum Database Reference Guide.

    -? | —help

    Show help, then exit.

    -V | —version

    -v | —verbose

    Show verbose output.

    -x | —explain

    Do not run MapReduce jobs, but produce explain plans.

    -X | —explain-analyze

    Run MapReduce jobs and produce explain-analyze plans.

    -k | —keyname=value

    Sets a YAML variable. A value is required. Defaults to “key” if no variable name is specified.

    -h host | —host host

    Specifies the host name of the machine on which the Greenplum master database server is running. If not specified, reads from the environment variable PGHOST or defaults to localhost.

    -p port | —port port

    Specifies the TCP port on which the Greenplum master database server is listening for connections. If not specified, reads from the environment variable PGPORT or defaults to 5432.

    -U username | —username username

    The database role name to connect as. If not specified, reads from the environment variable or defaults to the current system user name.

    -W | —password

    Force a password prompt.

    See Also

    Greenplum MapReduce specification in the Greenplum Database Reference Guide