What is IdentityMapper?



What is IdentityMapper?..

Answer / Utkarsh Srivastava

IdentityMapper is a custom Mapper class in Hadoop that simply outputs its input key and value without processing them. It can be useful for certain use cases, such as identity-based join operations.

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