|type|The task type, this should always be "index_hadoop".|yes|
|spec|A Hadoop Index Spec. See [Batch Ingestion](../ingestion/batch-ingestion.html)|yes|
|hadoopDependencyCoordinates|A JSON array of Hadoop dependency coordinates that Druid will use, this property will override the default Hadoop coordinates. Once specified, Druid will look for those Hadoop dependencies from the location specified by `druid.extensions.hadoopDependenciesDir`|no|
|classpathPrefix|Classpath that will be pre-appended for the peon process.|no|
A type of inputSpec that expects data to be organized in directories according to datetime using the path format: `y=XXXX/m=XX/d=XX/H=XX/M=XX/S=XX` (where date is represented by lowercase and time is represented by uppercase).
|pathFormat|String|Joda datetime format for each directory. Default value is `"'y'=yyyy/'m'=MM/'d'=dd/'H'=HH"`, or see [Joda documentation](http://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html)|no|
|partitionsSpec|Object|A specification of how to partition each time bucket into segments. Absence of this property means no partitioning will occur. See 'Partitioning specification' below.|no (default == 'hashed')|
|maxRowsInMemory|Integer|The number of rows to aggregate before persisting. Note that this is the number of post-aggregation rows which may not be equal to the number of input events due to roll-up. This is used to manage the required JVM heap size.|no (default == 75000)|
|leaveIntermediate|Boolean|Leave behind intermediate files (for debugging) in the workingPath when a job completes, whether it passes or fails.|no (default == false)|
|cleanupOnFailure|Boolean|Clean up intermediate files when a job fails (unless leaveIntermediate is on).|no (default == true)|
|combineText|Boolean|Use CombineTextInputFormat to combine multiple files into a file split. This can speed up Hadoop jobs when processing a large number of small files.|no (default == false)|
|useCombiner|Boolean|Use Hadoop combiner to merge rows at mapper if possible.|no (default == false)|
|buildV9Directly|Boolean|Build v9 index directly instead of building v8 index and converting it to v9 format.|no (default = false)|
|numBackgroundPersistThreads|Integer|The number of new background threads to use for incremental persists. Using this feature causes a notable increase in memory pressure and cpu usage but will make the job finish more quickly. If changing from the default of 0 (use current thread for persists), we recommend setting it to 1.|no (default == 0)|
|targetPartitionSize|Target number of rows to include in a partition, should be a number that targets segments of 500MB\~1GB.|either this or numShards|
|numShards|Specify the number of partitions directly, instead of a target partition size. Ingestion will run faster, since it can skip the step necessary to select a number of partitions automatically.|either this or targetPartitionSize|
|type|Type of partitionSpec to be used.|"dimension"|
|targetPartitionSize|Target number of rows to include in a partition, should be a number that targets segments of 500MB\~1GB.|yes|
|maxPartitionSize|Maximum number of rows to include in a partition. Defaults to 50% larger than the targetPartitionSize.|no|
|partitionDimension|The dimension to partition on. Leave blank to select a dimension automatically.|no|
|assumeGrouped|Assume that input data has already been grouped on time and dimensions. Ingestion will run faster, but may choose sub-optimal partitions if this assumption is violated.|no|
If you have a remote Hadoop cluster, make sure to include the folder holding your configuration `*.xml` files in your Druid `_common` configuration folder.
If you are having dependency problems with your version of Hadoop and the version compiled with Druid, please see [these docs](../operations/other-hadoop.html).
If you do not want to have a dependency on Hadoop for batch ingestion, you can also use the index task. This task will be much slower and less scalable than the Hadoop-based method. See [here](../ingestion/tasks.html) for more info.
Getting data into Druid can definitely be difficult for first time users. Please don't hesitate to ask questions in our IRC channel or on our [google groups page](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/druid-user).
