Milind the map-side sort uses the partiion as the primary key. So, you still 
sort.

See MR-1639 for more details.

On Oct 19, 2011, at 3:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> How is that different from specifying a comparator that always returns
> that k1 and k2 are equal regardless of k1 and k2 ? So, you will get only
> partitioning, and not sorting.
> 
> - Milind
> 
> 
> On 10/19/11 2:42 PM, "Zheng Shao" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Google's Tenzing paper mentioned that they modified MR to make sorting in
>> reducer optional:
>> http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/resear
>> ch.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/37200.pdf
>> 
>> Is there any plan to support that in MR 2.0?
>> 
>> Zheng
> 

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