A trainer at Hortonworks told me that org.apache.hadoop.mapred is the old
package.
So for all intent and purposes use the new one: org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.
Otto out!
From: Ahmed Eldawy [mailto:aseld...@gmail.com]
Sent: July-04-13 2:30 PM
To: user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Which InputFormat
Hi Ahmed,
Hadoop 0.20.0 included the new mapred API, these sometimes
refer as context objects. These are designed to make API easier to evolve in
future. There are some differences between new & old API's,
> The new API's favour abstract classes rather than interfaces, since abs
Using InputFormat under mapreduce package. mapred package is very old
package. but generally you can extend from FileInputFormat under
o.a.h.mapreduce package.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Devaraj k wrote:
> Hi Ahmed,
>
> ** **
>
> Hadoop 0.20.0 included the new mapred
Whichever you pick, both are supported right now and pretty much offer
the same functionality. FWIW though, Pig and HBase both use the new
APIs.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Azuryy Yu wrote:
> Using InputFormat under mapreduce package. mapred package is very old
> package. but generally you
