Apache Falcon provides a framework for simplifying the development of data management applications in Apache Hadoop. Falcon enables users to automate the movement and processing of data sets. Instead of hard-coding complex data set and pipeline processing capabilities, Hadoop applications can now rely on the Apache Falcon framework for these functions.

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	Falcon works with Oozie jobs, Pig scripts, and Hive queries. We recommend that at a minimum you have Oozie and Pig installed to successfully use Falcon for data governance.