Is it better to use the mapred or the mapreduce package to create a Hadoop Job?

Question

To create MapReduce jobs you can either use the old org.apache.hadoop.mapred package or the newer org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce package for Mappers a

Answer 1

Old API (mapred)

1. Exists in Package org.apache.hadoop.mapred

2. Provide A map/reduce job configuration.

3. Reduces values for a given key, based on the Iterator
4. Package Summary

New API (mapreduce)

5. Exists in Package org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce

6. Job configuration is done by separate class, Called JobConf which is extension of Configuration
   Class

7. Reduces values for a given key, based on the Iterable

8. Package Summary