MapReduce Interview Questions
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What is a distributed cache in mapreduce framework?

346

What do you mean by data locality?

379

How can we assure that the values regarding a particular key goes to the same reducer?

371

What are ‘reduces’?

375

Explain how do ‘map’ and ‘reduce’ work?

339

How do ‘map’ and ‘reduce’ work?

348

Explain the input type/format in mapreduce by default?

342

What is the difference between map and reduce?

342

What is optimal size of a file for distributed cache?

368


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what daemons run on a master node and slave nodes?

381


mapper or reducer?

622


Explain what does the conf.setmapper class do?

340


When Namenode is down what happens to job tracker?

446


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

377






Explain the input type/format in mapreduce by default?

342


What is an identity mapper and identity reducer?

345


How is mapreduce related to cloud computing?

342


Describe what happens to a mapreduce job from submission to output?

360


What is heartbeat in hdfs?

395


Detail description of the Reducer phases?

578


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

372


What is MapReduce in Hadoop?

359


Compare Pig vs Hive vs Hadoop MapReduce?

366


Is there any point of learning mapreduce, then?

386