Chapter 10. YARN – Future and Support

YARN is the new modern data operating system for Hadoop 2. YARN acts as a central orchestrator to support mixed workloads/programming models, running multiple engines, and multiple access patterns such as batch processing, interactive, streaming, and real-time, in Hadoop 2.

In this chapter, we will talk about YARN's journey and its present and future in the big data industry.

What YARN means to the big data industry

It can be said that YARN is a boon to the big data industry. Without YARN the entire big data industry would have been at serious risk. As the industry started playing with big data, new and emerging varieties of problems came into the picture and hence new frameworks.

YARN's support to run these new ...

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