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YARN Essentials

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YARN Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
YARN Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Need for YARN
9
YARN – Alternative Solutions
Index

Chapter 4. YARN and Hadoop Ecosystems

This chapter discusses YARN with respect to Hadoop, since it is very important to know where exactly YARN fits in Hadoop 2 now.

Hadoop 2 has undergone a complete change in terms of architecture and components compared to Hadoop 1.

In this chapter, we will be cover the following topics:

  • A short introduction to Hadoop 1

  • The difference between MRv1 and MRv2

  • Where YARN fits in Hadoop 2

  • Old and new MapReduce APIs

  • Backward compatibility of MRv2 APIs

  • Practical examples of MRv1 and MRv2