What happens if the number of reducers is 0 in Hadoop?

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If we set the number of Reducer to 0 (by setting job. setNumreduceTasks(0)), then no reducer will execute and no aggregation will take place. In such case, we will prefer “Map-only job” in Hadoop. In Map-Only job, the map does all task with its InputSplit and the reducer do no job
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