On May 17, 2012, at 17:49 , Arun C Murthy wrote: > Currently YARN doesn't offer anything to manage a DAG of applications.
Well, there is the following webpage: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.23.1/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html which suggests that YARN supports a dag of MR jobs within a YARN application (second paragraph, last sentence). True, it is a dag of jobs within an application, not a dag of applications, but that wasn't really my original question. My question was how the dag structure offered by YARN differs from that offered by Oozie. It doesn't seem like the responses to my question so far have adequately reconciled Oozie's dag of jobs with YARN's dag of jobs. To the contrary, the only response I've gotten so far seems to suggest that the webpage above is simply wrong and YARN offers no form of multi-job dag at all; no response in this thread has confirmed it for example. > It's fairly easy to implement a DAGApplicationMaster to manage a set of > applications (whether MR or others). Right, but that applies to whole applications. Isn't a dag *of* jobs within an application rather analogous to what Oozie does? Bear in mind, that is the entire premise of my original question (the degree of similarity between these two multi-job dag coordination systems). The distinction between jobs and applications is only relevant after the relationship to Oozie has been established, since that was my original question. I'm really sorry about the apparent misunderstanding. I didn't intend any confusion on the matter. I simply read the webpage at all and was immediately curious about its implications for Oozie, that's all. > Arun > > PS: Please use mapreduce-dev@ for technical discussions, general@ is used for > project discussions/announcements. Thanks. Oof, sorry about that. It's hard to move a thread mid-discussion of course since that messes up the archives and I still don't feel that the text on the webpage quoted above, which clearly describes YARN's dag of jobs, has been addressed, so I'm carrying on for the sake of "the historical record", but I apologize for not targeting my question at the most relevant mailing list. A mailing list named "general" struck me as, well, general, but I must have misinterpreted it. ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley [email protected] keithwiley.com music.keithwiley.com "Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy." -- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland ________________________________________________________________________________
