Multiple choice technology

Which one of the following components does not require sorted input?

  1. Partition by Key

  2. Dedup Sort

  3. Sort within Groups

  4. Merge
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Explanation

Partition by Key only groups records by key value across partitions without requiring any specific order. Dedup Sort, Sort within Groups, and Merge all depend on pre-sorted data to function correctly.

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