Github user yaoshengzhe commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/72#issuecomment-36929714 I think reduceByKeyToDriver is a better name and developer could easily figure out the behavior of this operation. Instead, reduceByKeyLocally is a little bit confusing, it looks like we only do reduceByKey on each machine and return a RDD. However, it actually sends a Map to driver. I feel we should deprecate reduceByKeyLocally instead, my two cents.
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