Number of reducers in hadoop
问题 I was learning hadoop, I found number of reducers very confusing : 1) Number of reducers is same as number of partitions. 2) Number of reducers is 0.95 or 1.75 multiplied by (no. of nodes) * (no. of maximum containers per node). 3) Number of reducers is set by mapred.reduce.tasks . 4) Number of reducers is closest to: A multiple of the block size * A task time between 5 and 15 minutes * Creates the fewest files possible. I am very confused, Do we explicitly set number of reducers or it is