Explain the Reducer's reduce phase?



Explain the Reducer's reduce phase?..

Answer / Ankur Sudhanshu

The Reduce phase in MapReduce is where intermediate key-value pairs are processed and reduced to a smaller set of key-value pairs. Each reducer processes a subset of the shuffled data, grouped by key, and applies a user-defined reduce function on the values for each key.

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