What do shuffling do?



What do shuffling do?..

Answer / Rishita Pramanik

Shuffling is the process in Hadoop MapReduce where intermediate key-value pairs generated by the map task are sorted and partitioned based on their keys, which enables efficient merging of these pairs during the reduce phase.

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