Riak Map/Reduce Queries in Clojure
Over this week I’ve been working on a proof of concept to see if it’s possible to use Clojure as the map/reduce language for Riak, in the same way now we can use Javascript and Erlang for that purpose. To accomplish that I needed a way to call Clojure code from Erlang. So I set up a very simple server in Clojure that runs as an Erlang node using Closerl.
Theoretically nice… practically I’d say there is a fundamental problem with this idea (different than the ones listed in the article). Map and reduce functions are supposed to run on the nodes hosting the data[1]
. If you need to wire this data is like implementing mapreduce on your application so the data locality property is lost. Not to mention that adding another variable to the equation (the JVM) your distributed system will become more sensible to failures.
- As mentioned in this question about Riak MapReduce, currently Riak runs only the map functions on all nodes, while reduce function is run on the node receiving the request. (↩)
Original title and link for this post: Riak Map/Reduce Queries in Clojure (published on the NoSQL blog: myNoSQL)
via: http://videlalvaro.github.com/2010/08/riak-map-reduce-queries-in-clojure.html
