Oozie, Yahoo! Workflow Engine for Hadoop

Oozie v2 is a server based Coordinator Engine specialized in running workflows based on time and data triggers. It can continuously run workflows based on time (e.g. run it every hour), and data availability (e.g. wait for my input data to exist before running my workflow).

Oozie v1 is a server based Workflow Engine specialized in running workflow jobs with actions that execute Hadoop Map/Reduce and Pig jobs.

Distribution Contents

Oozie distribution consists of a single 'tar.gz' file containing:

  • Readme, license, notice & Release log files.
  • Oozie web application: oozie.war file.
  • Documentation: docs.zip file.
  • Configuration: conf/ directory.
  • Client: expanded, bin/ and lib/ directories, and archived, oozie-client.tar.gz file.
  • Examples: oozie-examples.tar.gz file.

Quick Start

Enough reading already? Follow the steps in Oozie Quick Start to get Oozie up and running.

Developer Documentation

Administrator Documentation

Licensing Information

Oozie is distributed under Apache License 2.0 .

For details on the license of the dependent components, refer to the Dependencies Report, Licenses section .

Some of the components in the dependencies report don't mention their license in the published POM. They are:

Oozie uses a modified version of the Apache Doxia core and twiki plugins to generate Oozie documentation.

Engineering Documentation