Explain the Reducer's Sort phase?



Explain the Reducer's Sort phase?..

Answer / Shashank Sharma

The Reducer's Sort phase is responsible for sorting the intermediate key-value pairs that were produced by the Mapper tasks. This sorting allows the reducer to process the data in sorted order, which can be more efficient when performing aggregate operations like counting or summing.

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