What is the relationship between Jobs and Tasks in Hadoop?



What is the relationship between Jobs and Tasks in Hadoop?..

Answer / Vijay Kumar Yadav

A Job consists of one or more Map tasks followed by one or more Reduce tasks. Each task processes a portion of the input data to produce output. In other words, a job is a high-level unit of work, while tasks are low-level units of computation.

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