Counters represent global counters, defined either by the MapReduce framework or applications. Each Counter can be of any Enum type. Counters of a particular Enum are bunched into groups of type Counters.Group.
Applications can define arbitrary Counters (of type Enum) and update them via Counters.incrCounter(Enum, long) or Counters.incrCounter(String, String, long) in the map and/or reduce methods. These counters are then globally aggregated by the framework.
