Can someone explain how duplicate keys are merged inside of a reduce program to give multiple values in the Iterator for the reduce operation.? I think it is happening in the sort of the sequence file butI also see the CombiningCollector. I was able to write a MapReduce program successfully and I am getting values with the same keys merged even when I don't use the CombiningCollector. Is the CombiningCollector even used anymore? I just want to understand more about what is happening under the hood.

Dennis

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