title: Is it better to use the mapred or the mapreduce package to create a Hadoop Job?
body: <p>To create MapReduce jobs you can either use the old <code>org.apache.hadoop.mapred</code> package or the newer <code>org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce</code> package for Mappers and Reducers, Jobs ... The first one had been marked as deprecated but this got reverted meanwhile. Now I wonder whether it is better to use the old mapred package or the new mapreduce package to create a job and why. Or is it just dependent on whether you need stuff like the MultipleTextOutputFormat which is only available in the old mapred package?</p>