Apache Hadoop 2.0 Release

Introduced YARN, which decoupled resource management from MapReduce, enabling other processing engines like Spark to run on Hadoop clusters.

Significance

This release laid critical groundwork, making Hadoop clusters more versatile and paving the way for services like Dataproc to manage diverse workloads beyond just MapReduce.

Key facts

Date
2013-10-15
Type
release
Location
Global (via Apache Software Foundation)