Question - What are the most common output formats in Hadoop?
Answer -
The following are the commonly used output formats in Hadoop:
- Textoutputformat: TextOutputFormat is by default the output format in Hadoop.
- Mapfileoutputformat: Mapfileoutputformat writes the output as map files in Hadoop.
- DBoutputformat: DBoutputformat writes the output in relational databases and Hbase.
- Sequencefileoutputformat: Sequencefileoutputformat is used in writing sequence files.
- SequencefileAsBinaryoutputformat: SequencefileAsBinaryoutputformat is used in writing keys to a sequence file in binary format.