So, your “store” in iteration n-1 can be as follows:
key (timestamp | value)
a 1 | x, b 2 | x, c 3 | x, d 4 | x
In iteration n of these pairs, where added: ... b 5 | x, d 6 | x
The imaging device will find these 2 entries since the timestamp is> 4 and put them in the intermediate results
Now the reducer would find that for these two entries there are two more matching entries in the n-1 repository: b 2 | x, d 4 | x
, ( ): b 5 | x, d 6 | x, b 2 | x, d 4 | x
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