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In order to pass data between Hadoop and Kettle there must be some degree of type conversion. Here's the type mapping for the built in Kettle types:
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The currently supported configuration properties are:
Property Name | Description |
| Version of Kettle to use from the Kettle HDFS installation directory. If not set we will use the version of Kettle that is used to submit the Pentaho MapReduce job. |
| Installation path in HDFS for the Kettle environment used to execute a Pentaho MapReduce job. This can be a relative path, anchored to the user's home directory, or an absolute path if it starts with a /. |
| Pentaho MapReduce Kettle environment runtime archive to be preloaded into |
| Comma-separated list of additional plugins (by directory name) to be installed with the Kettle environment. |
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