MapReduce Interview Questions
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Explain InputSplit in Hadoop MapReduce?

500

How much space will the split occupy in Mapreduce?

504

What is a RecordReader in Hadoop MapReduce?

491

What is the difference between HDFS block and input split?

629

How to write MapReduce Programs?

495

What is the difference between an RDBMS and Hadoop?

498

How does Hadoop Classpath plays a vital role in stopping or starting in Hadoop daemons?

559

What is the data storage component used by Hadoop?

458

When is it not recommended to use MapReduce paradigm for large scale data processing?

497

What is sqoop in Hadoop ?

512

What do you understand by the term Straggler ?

492

Explain about the basic parameters of mapper and reducer function

896

How many InputSplits is made by a Hadoop Framework?

448

What do you understand by compute and storage nodes?

507

Explain job scheduling through JobTracker

525


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what is a sequence file in Hadoop?

514


Explain about the basic parameters of mapper and reducer function

896


What is difference between an input split and hdfs block?

459


When is it not recommended to use MapReduce paradigm for large scale data processing?

497


With the help of two examples name the map and reduce function purpose

459


Is it mandatory to set input and output type/format in MapReduce?

549


What is the next step after Mapper or MapTask?

486


Explain what are the basic parameters of a mapper?

590


What is the Job interface in MapReduce framework?

729


Write a Mapreduce Program for Character Count ?

831


What happens when the node running the map task fails before the map output has been sent to the reducer?

492


what is "map" and what is "reducer" in Hadoop?

461


How would you tackle calculating the number of unique visitors for each hour by mining a huge apache log? You can use post processing on the output of the mapreduce job.

568


How to specify more than one directory as input in the Hadoop MapReduce Program?

543


What counter in Hadoop MapReduce?

472