This is the documentation for CDH 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Avro Data Files

Avro data files have the .avro extension. Make sure the files you create have this extension, since some tools look for it to determine which files to process as Avro (e.g. AvroInputFormat and AvroAsTextInputFormat for MapReduce and Streaming).

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