To invoke the Connect for Big Data sort accelerator for a MapReduce job, the following configuration settings are required:
- The dmxhadoop jar file that contains the Connect for Big Data Sort classes must be in the Java CLASSPATH on all nodes in the cluster in order for the Sort accelerator to be invoked. The file can be specified as:
<connect_install>/lib/dmxhadoop_<type>.jar
where <type>
is mrv1
or mrv2
(mrv1_mapr
or mrv2_mapr
for MapR) as per the MapReduce
version running in your cluster.
- The required Connect for Big Data sort accelerator properties must be set as indicated in the following section.