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In MapReduce, if the input file is too large to fit in memory, but all <word, count> pairs do fit, what is the primary consideration for processing?
In MapReduce, if the input file is too large to fit in memory, but all <word, count> pairs do fit, what is the primary consideration for processing?
- Splitting the file into smaller chunks and processing each chunk sequentially.
- No special considerations are needed as long as the pairs fit in memory. (correct)
- Using a distributed file system to store the file across multiple machines.
- Using external sorting algorithms to sort the words in the file.
In MapReduce, if the <word, count> pairs themselves don't fit in memory, what is a common approach to handle word counting?
In MapReduce, if the <word, count> pairs themselves don't fit in memory, what is a common approach to handle word counting?
- Using a single machine with a very large memory capacity.
- Ignoring less frequent words to reduce the number of pairs.
- Pipelining `words`, `sort`, and `uniq -c` to leverage the parallelizable nature of the problem. (correct)
- Compressing the input file to reduce its size.
Which of the following represents the correct sequence of operations in MapReduce?
Which of the following represents the correct sequence of operations in MapReduce?
- Reduce, then Map, then Group by Key.
- Group by Key, then Map, then Reduce.
- Map, then Group by Key, then Reduce. (correct)
- Map, then Reduce, then Group by Key.
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the 'Map' step in MapReduce?
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the 'Map' step in MapReduce?
What is the primary function of the 'Reduce' step in MapReduce?
What is the primary function of the 'Reduce' step in MapReduce?
In the context of MapReduce, what does 'Group by Key' refer to?
In the context of MapReduce, what does 'Group by Key' refer to?
According to the MapReduce overview, which parts of the process are most likely to be customized by the programmer for different problems?
According to the MapReduce overview, which parts of the process are most likely to be customized by the programmer for different problems?
What is the purpose of the Map function in the more formal definition of MapReduce?
What is the purpose of the Map function in the more formal definition of MapReduce?
What is the role of the Reduce function in the more formal definition of MapReduce?
What is the role of the Reduce function in the more formal definition of MapReduce?
In the 'Word Counting' example, what is the responsibility of the 'MAP' stage provided by the programmer?
In the 'Word Counting' example, what is the responsibility of the 'MAP' stage provided by the programmer?
In the 'Word Counting' example, what is the role of the 'Reduce' stage provided by the programmer?
In the 'Word Counting' example, what is the role of the 'Reduce' stage provided by the programmer?
When counting words using MapReduce, what key-value pair transformation occurs in the map stage?
When counting words using MapReduce, what key-value pair transformation occurs in the map stage?
What are the input and output of the map function for the word count problem?
What are the input and output of the map function for the word count problem?
What are the input and output of the reduce function for the word count problem?
What are the input and output of the reduce function for the word count problem?
In the 'Host size' example, what does the Map function output?
In the 'Host size' example, what does the Map function output?
In the 'Host size' example, what is the purpose of the Reduce function?
In the 'Host size' example, what is the purpose of the Reduce function?
For the 'Language Model' example in MapReduce, what data transformation occurs in the Map step?
For the 'Language Model' example in MapReduce, what data transformation occurs in the Map step?
In the Language Model example, what is the role of the Reduce step?
In the Language Model example, what is the role of the Reduce step?
Suppose you are using MapReduce to analyze web server logs to find popular URLs. What would be a suitable key-value pair for the Map output?
Suppose you are using MapReduce to analyze web server logs to find popular URLs. What would be a suitable key-value pair for the Map output?
In the context of MapReduce, what is the primary advantage of processing data in parallel?
In the context of MapReduce, what is the primary advantage of processing data in parallel?
Flashcards
What is MapReduce?
What is MapReduce?
A programming model for processing and generating large datasets.
What is the Map step?
What is the Map step?
The first step in MapReduce that processes input data record by record and extracts key information.
What is the Reduce step?
What is the Reduce step?
The MapReduce step that aggregates, summarizes, or transforms data based on keys.
What is the first step in the 'Map' function?
What is the first step in the 'Map' function?
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What is the Key Extraction in MapReduce?
What is the Key Extraction in MapReduce?
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What is Grouping by Key?
What is Grouping by Key?
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What is 'Sort and Shuffle'?
What is 'Sort and Shuffle'?
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What is Word Count?
What is Word Count?
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What is Input?
What is Input?
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What are the 'Map' and 'Reduce' methods?
What are the 'Map' and 'Reduce' methods?
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What does the Map(k, v) function do?
What does the Map(k, v) function do?
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How is MapReduce naturally parallelizable?
How is MapReduce naturally parallelizable?
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What does Reduce(k', <v'>*) do?
What does Reduce(k', <v'>*) do?
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What is Language Model?
What is Language Model?
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What is the format of input in host size estimation?
What is the format of input in host size estimation?
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What does the 'Write the result' task generally do in the 'Reduce' Step?
What does the 'Write the result' task generally do in the 'Reduce' Step?
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Study Notes
- MapReduce is a computational model.
- It is used for mining of massive datasets.
- The warm-up task is to count the number of times each distinct word appears in a huge text document.
- Sample applications include analyzing web server logs to find popular URLs and term statistics for search.
- The file is too large for memory, but word count pairs fit in memory in Case 1.
- Even the word count pairs don’t fit in memory in Case 2.
words(doc.txt) | sort | uniq -ctakes a file and outputs the words in it, one per line.- Case 2 captures the essence of MapReduce which is naturally parallelizable.
- Outline stays the same with Map and Reduce to fit the problem.
- MapReduce overall steps are: map, group by key, and reduce.
- Map scans an input file record-at-a-time and extracts the keys.
- Group by key sorts and shuffles.
- Reduce aggregates, summarizes, filters, transforms and writes the result.
- The Map step takes input key-value pairs and emits intermediate key-value pairs.
- The Reduce step takes intermediate key-value pairs, groups them by key, then emits output key-value pairs.
- The input is a set of key-value pairs.
- The programmer specifies two methods, Map and Reduce.
Map(k, v) → <k', v'>*takes a key-value pair and outputs a set of key-value pairs.- There is one Map call for every (k,v) pair.
Reduce(k’, <v’>*) → <k’, v”>*reduces all values v’ with the same key k’ together.- There is one reduce function call per unique key k’.
- Word counting in MapReduce involves three main phases provided by the programmer: Map, Group by Key, and Reduce.
- Map reads the input and produces a set of key-value pairs.
- Group by Key collects all pairs with the same key.
- Reduce collects all values belonging to the key and outputs the result.
- The map function takes a key and a value.
- The value is text of the document.
- For each word w in value, emit (w, 1)
- The reduce function takes a key and values.
- The key is a word and the value is an iterator over counts.
- Result is assigned zero.
- For each count v in values, result = result + v
- Emit (key, result)
- For a large web corpus, suppose the metadata file is formatted as (URL, size, date, ...).
- Find the total number of bytes for each host.
- Map outputs (hostname(URL), size) for each record.
- Reduce sums the sizes for each host.
- The number of times each 5-word sequence occurs is counted for a large corpus of documents.
- Map extracts (5-word sequence, count) from document.
- Reduce combines the counts.
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