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Hadoop
Hadoop formats #
Apache Flink allows users to access many different systems as data sources.
The system is designed for very easy extensibility. Similar to Apache Hadoop, Flink has the concept
of so called InputFormat
s
One implementation of these InputFormat
s is the HadoopInputFormat
. This is a wrapper that allows
users to use all existing Hadoop input formats with Flink.