Oozie, a Hadoop Workflow System

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 and license: README.txt and LICENSE.txt files.
  • Oozie Server web application: wars/oozie.war file.
  • Oozie Documentation web application: wars/ooziedocs.war file.
  • Server configuration: conf/ directory.
  • Client: expanded, bin/ and lib/ directories, and archived, oozie-client.tar.gz file.
  • Examples: oozie-examples.tar.gz file.
  • Oozie Release log

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:

MySQL JDBC driver, GNU General Public License, Version 2 , is included in the Oozie distribution only if a MySQL Oozie distribution is created.

The Oozie web console uses Ext JS 2.2 which is available with a GNU GPL version 3.0 with an Open Source License Exception for Applications which covers projects using Apache License.

IMPORTANT: The Ext JS 2.2 library is not included in the distribution, it must be installed separately, refer to the README.txt file in the distribution for details.

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

Engineering Documentation