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From: Harsh J <harsh@cloudera.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 21:56:13 +0530
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Subject: Re: Why/When partitioner is used.
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 Sai Sai <saigraph@yahoo.in>
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Why not also ask yourself, what if you do not send all keys to the
same reducer? Would you get the results you desire that way? :)

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Sai Sai <saigraph@yahoo.in> wrote:
> I always get confused why we should partition and what is the use of it.
> Why would one want to send all the keys starting with A to Reducer1 and B to
> R2 and so on...
> Is it just to parallelize the reduce process.
> Please help.
> Thanks
> Sai


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Harsh J