What is shuffling and sorting in Hadoop MapReduce?



What is shuffling and sorting in Hadoop MapReduce?..

Answer / Nitin Kumar Sinha

Shuffling is the process of moving intermediate data from mappers to reducers. Sorting happens during this phase where data is sorted by key. This allows reducers to process data efficiently.

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