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what is the characteristic of streaming api that makes it flexible run mapreduce jobs in languages like perl, ruby, awk etc.?
Hadoop Streaming allows to use arbitrary programs for the Mapper and Reducer phases of a MapReduce job by having both Mappers and Reducers receive their input on stdin and emit output (key, value) pairs on stdout.
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