Chapter 9. YARN – Alternative Solutions
During the development of YARN, many other organizations simultaneously identified the limitations of Hadoop 1.x and were actively involved in developing alternative solutions.
This chapter will briefly talk about such alternate solutions and compare them to YARN. Among the most common frameworks that are closely related to YARN are:
- Mesos
- Omega
- Corona
Mesos
Mesos was originally developed at the University of California at Berkeley and later became open source under the Apache Software Foundation.
Mesos can be thought of as a highly-available and fault-tolerant operating system kernel for your clusters. It's a cluster resource manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across multiple diverse ...
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