title: Processing different files on separate nodes using Hadoop MapReduce
body: <p>I have used Pig and Hive before but am new to Hadoop MapReduce. I need to write an application which has multiple small sized files as input (say 10). They have different file structures, so I want to process them parallelly on separate nodes so that they can be processed quickly. I know that the strong point of Hadoop is processing large data but these input files, though small, require a lot of processing so I was hoping to leverage Hadoop's parallel computing prowess. Is this possible?</p>