MapReduce - Application

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Applications:

• specify the input/output locations
• supply map and reduce functions via implementations of appropriate interfaces and/or abstract-classes.

These, and other job parameters, comprise the job configuration.

Applications typically implement:

• the Mapper
• and Reducer interfaces

to provide:

• the map
• and reduce methods.

The Hadoop job client then submits the job (jar/executable etc.) and configuration to the ResourceManager which then assumes the responsibility of distributing the software/configuration to the slaves, scheduling tasks and monitoring them, providing status and diagnostic information to the job-client.

The MapReduce framework operates exclusively on

See Yarn - Application (app)