github.com/dkerwin/nomad@v0.3.3-0.20160525181927-74554135514b/website/source/intro/vs/yarn.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "intro" 3 page_title: "Nomad vs. YARN" 4 sidebar_current: "vs-other-yarn" 5 description: |- 6 Comparison between Nomad and Hadoop YARN 7 --- 8 9 # Nomad vs. Hadoop YARN 10 11 YARN, or Yet Another Resource Negotiator, is a system in Hadoop 12 for both resource management and job scheduling. It is used to allow multiple 13 Hadoop frameworks like MapReduce and Spark to run on the same hardware. 14 15 Nomad is focused on both long-lived services and batch workloads, and 16 is designed to be a platform for running large scale applications 17 generally instead of specifically for Hadoop. 18