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Design Strategies for Handling Data Skew in MapReduce Framework

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Multiway spatial join has drawn significant interest in research community because of its wide range of applications. Multiway spatial join further enjoys lots of applications in location based services. The analysis of communication cost is vital in the performance analysis of computing distributed multiway spatial join due to the skew observed in real world data. We analyze the performance of multiway spatial join using two strategies for addressing skew (a) whether to have a constraint on the number of reducers or (b) to have a constraint on the size of the input to the reducer (reducer is a computing facility). Our study gives a solution to address the issue of skew and to minimize the cost for communication in a network. We propose two algorithms, which study the trade-offs between the two strategies. We conducted experiments on real world datasets shows the performance in various scenarios. Based on the learning we provide insights into the selection of appropriate strategies for a given task.

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Potluri, A., Bhattu, S.N., Kumar, N.V.N., Subramanyam, R.B.V. (2020). Design Strategies for Handling Data Skew in MapReduce Framework. In: Smys, S., Bestak, R., Rocha, Á. (eds) Inventive Computation Technologies. ICICIT 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 98. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33846-6_27

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