There is no difference - textFile calls hadoopFile with a TextInputFormat, and maps each value to a String.
— Sent from Mailbox On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Puneet Kumar Ojha <puneet.ku...@pubmatic.com> wrote: > Hi , > Is there any difference between Difference between textFile Vs hadoopFile > (textInoutFormat) when data is present in HDFS? Will there be any performance > gain that can be observed? > Puneet Kumar Ojha > Data Architect | PubMatic<http://www.pubmatic.com/>