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Which is the default partitioner in mapreduce?


Asked by Kyler Powers on Dec 07, 2021 FAQ



The default partitioner, HashPartitioner, would use the CompositeKey object’s hashcode value to assign it to a reducer. This would “randomly” partition all keys whether we override the hashcode () method (doing it properly using hashes of all attributes) or not (using the default Object implementation which uses the address in memory).
Moreover,
The Partitioner in MapReduce controls the partitioning of the key of the intermediate mapper output. By hash function, key (or a subset of the key) is used to derive the partition. A total number of partitions depends on the number of reduce task.
Thereof, The Default Hadoop partitioner in Hadoop MapReduce is Hash Partitioner which computes a hash value for the key and assigns the partition based on this result.
Likewise,
The key or a subset of the key is used to derive the partition by a hash function. The total number of partitions is almost same as the number of reduce tasks for the job. Partitioner runs on the same machine where the mapper had completed its execution by consuming the mapper output.
Next,
Partitioning of the keys of the intermediate map output is controlled by the Partitioner. By hash function, key (or a subset of the key) is used to derive the partition.