MapReduce Terminology

Terminology

• PayLoad - Applications implement the Map and the Reduce functions, and form the core of the job.
• Mapper - Mapper maps the input key/value pairs to a set of intermediate key/value pair.
• NamedNode - Node that manages the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
• DataNode - Node where data is presented in advance before any processing takes place.
• MasterNode - Node where JobTracker runs and which accepts job requests from clients.
• SlaveNode - Node where Map and Reduce program runs.
• JobTracker - Schedules jobs and tracks the assign jobs to Task tracker.
• Task Tracker - Tracks the task and reports status to JobTracker.
• Job - A program is an execution of a Mapper and Reducer across a dataset.
• Task - An execution of a Mapper or a Reducer on a slice of data.
• Task Attempt - A particular instance of an attempt to execute a task on a SlaveNode.