What is shuffling in mapreduce?



What is shuffling in mapreduce?..

Answer / Rajneesh Phool

Shuffling in MapReduce refers to the process of redistributing intermediate key-value pairs (generated during the map phase) to the appropriate reducer responsible for their respective keys, following sorting.

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