What are the functionalities of JobTracker?

› Category: Hadoop › What are the functionalities of JobTracker?
0 Vote Up Vote Down
Editor">Editor Staff asked 2 years ago

What are the functionalities of JobTracker?

Question Tags:
1 Answers
0 Vote Up Vote Down
Editor">Editor Staff answered 2 years ago

These are the main tasks of JobTracker:

  • To accept jobs from the client.
  • To communicate with the NameNode to determine the location of the data.
  • To locate TaskTracker Nodes with available slots.
  • To submit the work to the chosen TaskTracker node and monitors the progress of each task.