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Add ShardMergeIterator type. This type is used to merge the shards that are the input to the reduce phase. See https://drive.google.com/open?id=1grB87a0w9fQ2k7i04N3VJvYlw2BldxWNcHublW_ygJs
author Lewin Bormann <lbo@spheniscida.de>
date Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:35:45 +0000
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# LocalMR

LocalMR is a MapReduce implementation that is designed to be run on a single machine.
It is best suited for calculation-heavy tasks: While it can run code concurrently,
the Hard Disk obviously remains the bottleneck. So sometimes, a local `grep` may be
faster :)