YARN is the next-generation Hadoop MapReduce project that Murthy has been leading. "It opens up Hadoop to so many new use cases, whether it's real-time event processing, or interactive SQL.

Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...

YARN is already available in some distributions of Hadoop, including the Cloudera distribution. The official Hadoop 2.0 open source project is in alpha and the beta is expected soon.

YARN, therefore, will allow Hadoop clusters to execute non-MapReduce workloads. Work is underway on a number of such applications, including Spark, Storm, Giraph, and Hama. Spark is a parallel ...

The Apache Hadoop community has done a truly amazing job developing a scalable and versatile platform for big data analytic workloads. And with the recent introduction of YARN in Hadoop 2, we’re now ...

Apache Hadoop Community Promotes YARN -- But Don't Call it MapReduce 2. The Hadoop community recently promoted YARN-- the next-gen Hadoop data processing framework -- to the status of "sub-project" of ...

Securonix reported on Thursday (Jan. 24) that the latest exploit against Hadoop and YARN includes installation of a “second-stage payload” that could be used for crypto-mining or to gain remote access ...

Hadoop distribution vendor MapR announced the latest release of its distro that includes the latest version of the distributed computing system, Apache Hadoop 2.2, and YARN, a resource management ...

YARN, which stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator, is a core component of the Apache Hadoop data processing framework, often used in large enterprise networks or cloud computing environments.

Hadoop distribution vendor MapR announced the latest release of its distro that includes the latest version of the distributed computing system, Apache Hadoop 2.2, and YARN, a resource management ...