Advantages of using NullWritable in Hadoop

Question

What are the advantages of using NullWritable for null keys/values over using null texts (i.e. new Text(null)). I see the fol

Answer 1

I change the run method. and success

@Override
public int run(String[] strings) throws Exception {
    Configuration config = HBaseConfiguration.create();  
    //set job name
    Job job = new Job(config, "Import from file ");
    job.setJarByClass(LogRun.class);
    //set map class
    job.setMapperClass(LogMapper.class);

    //set output format and output table name
    //job.setOutputFormatClass(TableOutputFormat.class);
    //job.getConfiguration().set(TableOutputFormat.OUTPUT_TABLE, "crm_data");
    //job.setOutputKeyClass(ImmutableBytesWritable.class);
    //job.setOutputValueClass(Put.class);

    TableMapReduceUtil.initTableReducerJob("crm_data", null, job);
    job.setNumReduceTasks(0);
    TableMapReduceUtil.addDependencyJars(job);

    FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(strings[0]));

    int ret = job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1;
    return ret;
}