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Tuesday Big Data Series

What is a Fair Scheduler in Hadoop?

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Fair Scheduler is a pluggable scheduler for Hadoop that allows YARN applications to share resources in large clusters fairly. As the name suggests, it allocates resources such that all applications get an equal share. By default, this is done on the basis of the memory. But, i t can be configured to schedule with both memory… Continue reading What is a Fair Scheduler in Hadoop?

Tuesday Big Data Series

What is a Capacity Scheduler in Hadoop?

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Capacity Scheduler is a pluggable scheduler for Hadoop which allows for multiple-tenants to securely share a large cluster such that their applications are allocated resources in a timely manner under constraints of allocated capacities. Before the onset of Big Data and Hadoop, every organization had their own set of resources that had sufficient capacity to meet the… Continue reading What is a Capacity Scheduler in Hadoop?