What is a Combiner?



What is a Combiner?..

Answer / Balram Sarkar

A Combiner in Hadoop is an optional class used in MapReduce jobs that helps to reduce the amount of data shuffled between the map and reduce tasks. It performs a partial reduction on the map output, which can lead to performance improvements by reducing the amount of data that needs to be processed in the reduce phase.

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