What is purpose of RecordWriter in Hadoop?



What is purpose of RecordWriter in Hadoop?..

Answer / Kunwar Pal Singh

RecordWriter in Hadoop is responsible for writing records to the output. It provides a convenient way to write records that conform to the InputFormat and OutputFormat of the job.

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