Supported Sort Keys - Connect_ETL - 9.13

Connect ETL for Big Data Sort User Guide

The Hadoop framework allows for a single sort key for the map and reduce sort stages.

Connect for Big Data Sort supports all of the natively supported key types in the MapReduce framework

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IntWritable
LongWritable
FloatWritable
DoubleWritable

If your key is not one of the supported types, specify the dmx.key.binarycomparable property as true to allow the keys to be compared as bytes.