I'm trying out the Cloudera QuickStart VM and found it pretty straightforward to try out basic WordCount M/R example, Hive queries on sample CSVs. I was most eager to try out Cloudera Search. I followed the steps from the blog here. The ~/datasets/batch-tweets.sh script seemed to run fine - the MapReduceIndexer took 3 to 4 minutes and jobs seemed to succeed. I could see what looks like a Lucene index in HDFS under /solr/batch_tweets/core_node1/data/index. So far so good. I fired up the Hue Solr Search tool and tried customizing how search results are formatted. This works partially but each field in a set of results is preceded by what looks like Avro type information e.g. if the template looks like: {{text}} {{user_name}} the results preview shows the following: org.apache.avro.util.Utf8:tweet text 10782 org.apache.avro.util.Utf8:fake user10782 I also tried using avro-tools to read the sample data that the batch-tweets script pulls in for indexing: java -jar ~/avro-tools-1.7.3.jar tojson /usr/share/doc/search-1.0.0/examples/test-documents/sample-statuses-20120906-141433-medium.avro | less The avro files seemed to read just fine. Is it possible that there's been some change to the QuickStart VM since the blog was posted last summer? Any suggestions welcome.
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