Oozie is an open-source workflow/coordination service to manage data processing jobs for Apache Hadoop. It is an extensible, scalable and data-aware service to orchestrate dependencies between jobs running on Hadoop (including HDFS, Pig and MapReduce). Oozie is a lot of things, but being:

• A workflow solution for off Hadoop processing
• Another query processing API, a la Cascading

is not one of them.

Oozie Benefits:

• Complex workflow action dependencies: Oozie workflow comprises of actions and dependencies among them.
• Reduces Time-To-Market (TTM): The DAG specification enables users to specify the workflow.
• Frequency execution: Users can specify execution frequency and can wait for data arrival to trigger an action in the workflow.
• Native Hadoop stack integration: Oozie supports all types of Hadoop jobs.
• Oozie is validated against the Hadoop stack.
• Oozie is integrated with the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop with security and is a primary mechanism to manage a variety of complex data analysis.

Azkaban vs. Oozie:

What do Azkaban and Oozie do?

• Both allow to run a series of map-reduce, pig, java & scripts actions a single workflow job
• Both allow regular scheduling  of workflow jobs

On the Implementation Side

Runtime

• Azkaban runs as standalone (one workflows) or server (one user, multi workflows)
• Oozie runs as server (multi user, multi workflows)

On the Functional Side

Regular Scheduling

• Azkaban interval job scheduling is time based
• Oozie interval job scheduling is time & input-data-dependent based