What is a record reader?



What is a record reader?..

Answer / Shashi Kant Mishra

A RecordReader in Hadoop is an abstraction for reading data from various input sources (e.g., text files, databases). It provides the MapReduce framework with key-value pairs, where the key is usually the offset within the file and the value is the actual data.

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