What is Mapper? How can we compress Mapper output in Hadoop?



What is Mapper? How can we compress Mapper output in Hadoop?..

Answer / Digniti Sharma

Mapper is a processing component in the MapReduce paradigm that takes input records and processes them to generate intermediate key-value pairs. To compress Mapper output in Hadoop, you can configure compression for the map output by setting the mapred.compress.map.output property to true and configuring the appropriate compression codec.

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