Is Azkaban Alive?

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Grant

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Apr 20, 2012, 12:50:43 PM4/20/12
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Is Azkaban alive? I see questions being asked here, but the source
tree seems to have gone cold, or is everyone working on a fork? Or
perhaps it just simply works?

I'm in the process of looking at workflow engines for Hadoop, etc.

Thanks,
Grant

Prashant Kommireddi

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Apr 20, 2012, 1:17:41 PM4/20/12
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Same boat!

I have been evaluating AZK for workflows. Development seems to have
stopped, I submitted a patch couple of months back and it hasn't been
looked at yet. It works but - there are issues like sever crashing as
it doesnt do namespacing, reporting success when the job actually
fails.

It's definitely easy to get started with it, but I think I will
evaluate Oozie before adopting 1 of them. Right now AZK is too brittle
to have my company adopt it, and its risky considering there is no
evident development at the moment.

-Prashant

Grant

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Apr 20, 2012, 4:22:41 PM4/20/12
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Yeah, I'm evaluating/using Oozie too, but then you are programming in
XML, which can get ugly fast. Oozie does seem to be more alive.

On Apr 20, 1:17 pm, Prashant Kommireddi <prash1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Same boat!
>
> I have been evaluating AZK for workflows. Development seems to have
> stopped, I submitted a patch couple of months back and it hasn't been
> looked at yet. It works but - there are issues like sever crashing as
> it doesnt do namespacing, reporting success when the job actually
> fails.
>
> It's definitely easy to get started with it, but I think I will
> evaluate Oozie before adopting 1 of them. Right now AZK is too brittle
> to have my company adopt it, and its risky considering there is no
> evident development at the moment.
>
> -Prashant
>

Prashant Kommireddi

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Apr 20, 2012, 4:25:08 PM4/20/12
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I agree on the XML part, that is the reason I started with AZK.

Are you sure on Oozie not being more alive? I see some activity here http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-oozie-users/

Grant

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Apr 21, 2012, 7:05:23 AM4/21/12
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Oozie is more alive, yes. I asked questions over there and got
immediate answers.

On Apr 20, 4:25 pm, Prashant Kommireddi <prash1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree on the XML part, that is the reason I started with AZK.
>
> Are you sure on Oozie not being more alive? I see some activity herehttp://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-oozie-users/

Ophir Cohen

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Apr 21, 2012, 7:37:24 AM4/21/12
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oozie is under the wings of Cloudera and those have better support and its more leaving project...

Grant

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Apr 23, 2012, 9:25:59 AM4/23/12
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Oozie is an Apache project, started at Y! actually. But yes, Cloudera
has support for it, as do others.

On Apr 21, 7:37 am, Ophir Cohen <oph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> oozie is under the wings of Cloudera and those have better support and its
> more leaving project...
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