MapReduce Interview Questions
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What is a distributed cache in mapreduce framework?

431

What do you mean by data locality?

478

How can we assure that the values regarding a particular key goes to the same reducer?

451

What are ‘reduces’?

506

Explain how do ‘map’ and ‘reduce’ work?

433

How do ‘map’ and ‘reduce’ work?

466

Explain the input type/format in mapreduce by default?

435

What is the difference between map and reduce?

444

What is optimal size of a file for distributed cache?

462


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How to change a number of mappers running on a slave in MapReduce?

541


How much space will the split occupy in Mapreduce?

494


What is a MapReduce Combiner?

611


Why Mapreduce output written in local disk?

707


MapReduce Types and Formats and Setting up a Hadoop Cluster?

708






What is the next step after Mapper or MapTask?

479


What is shuffleing in mapreduce?

450


Define speculative execution?

489


Explain about the basic parameters of mapper and reducer function

888


Is it possible to search for files using wildcards?

467


What are the four basic parameters of a reducer?

456


What is the need of MapReduce in Hadoop?

477


How to set mappers and reducers for MapReduce jobs?

462


Can we submit the mapreduce job from slave node?

922


What is the difference between map and reduce?

444