MapReduce Interview Questions
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What does a 'MapReduce Partitioner' do?

373

What is the difference between Reducer and Combiner in Hadoop MapReduce?

380

What is Data Locality in Hadoop?

381

What is KeyValueTextInputFormat in Hadoop MapReduce?

518

What is Mapper in Hadoop MapReduce?

392

How to set mappers and reducers for MapReduce jobs?

373

How to sort intermediate output based on values in MapReduce?

400

Can we set the number of reducers to zero in MapReduce?

395

Where sorting is done on mapper node or reducer node in MapReduce?

400

Which Sorting algorithm is used in Hadoop MapReduce?

340

What is the need of MapReduce?

356

How to configure the number of the Combiner in MapReduce?

370

How to change a number of mappers running on a slave in MapReduce?

451

Is it mandatory to set input and output type/format in MapReduce?

436

How to set the number of mappers for a MapReduce job?

394


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What do sorting and shuffling do?

398


What is identity mapper and reducer? In which cases can we use them?

739


Different ways of debugging a job in MapReduce?

797


What can be optimum value for Reducer?

572


What is the default input type in MapReduce?

383






Explain what is distributed cache in mapreduce framework?

358


What is the difference between map and reduce?

344


Detail description of the Reducer phases?

578


When the reducers are are started in a mapreduce job?

341


When should you use a reducer?

356


Can we rename the output file?

384


What is Shuffling and Sorting in a MapReduce?

405


Whether the output of mapper or output of partitioner written on local disk?

389


Is it legal to set the number of reducer task to zero? Where the output will be stored in this case?

374


How many numbers of reducers run in Map-Reduce Job?

352