Earning Points. Starwood's Preferred Guest program is fairly straightforward: the more nights you spend at participating hotels, the faster you'll earn a free night.
The mapper output (intermediate data) is stored on the Local file system (NOT HDFS) of each individual mapper nodes. This is typically a temporary directory location which can be setup in config by the hadoop administrator. The intermediate data is cleaned up after the Hadoop Job completes.
MapPoint Location Server is integrated with Microsoft Active DirectoryÂ®, which is used as the master store for users and for authentication and authorization. Users who are provisioned for MapPoint Location Server must already exist in the Active Directory domain for the enterprise.