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Migrating from MapReduce v1 (MRv1) to MapReduce v2 (MRv2, YARN)

This is a guide to migrating from Apache MapReduce 1 (MRv1) to the Next Generation MapReduce (MRv2 or YARN).

See the following sections for more information:

Introduction

MapReduce 2, or Next Generation MapReduce, is a long needed upgrade to the way that scheduling, resource management, and execution occur in Hadoop. At their core, the improvements separate cluster resource management capabilities from MapReduce-specific logic. They enable Hadoop to share resources dynamically between MapReduce and other parallel processing frameworks, such as Impala, allow more sensible and finer-grained resource configuration for better cluster utilization, and permit it to scale to accommodate more and larger jobs.

In this document, we provide a guide to both the architectural and user-facing changes, so that both cluster operators and MapReduce programmers can easily make the transition. We seek to be comprehensive, covering features that many programmers and administrators may not be familiar with. With this in mind, if you come across a section or sentence containing unfamiliar terms, in general it means that you should not be concerned about its effect on your use of MapReduce.

Terminology and Architecture

MapReduce from Hadoop 1 (MapReduce 1) has been split into two components. The cluster resource management capabilities have become YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator), while the MapReduce-specific capabilities remain MapReduce. In the MapReduce 1 architecture, the cluster was managed by a service called the JobTracker. TaskTracker services lived on each node and would launch tasks on behalf of jobs. The JobTracker would serve information about completed jobs. In MapReduce 2, the functions of the JobTracker have been split between three services. The ResourceManager is a persistent YARN service that receives and runs applications (a MapReduce job is an application) on the cluster. It contains the scheduler, which, as previously, is pluggable. The MapReduce-specific capabilities of the JobTracker have been moved into the MapReduce Application Master, one of which is started to manage each MapReduce job and terminated when the job completes. The JobTracker’s function of serving information about completed jobs has been moved to the JobHistoryServer. The TaskTracker has been replaced with the NodeManager, a YARN service that manages resources and deployment on a node. It is responsible for launching containers, each of which can house a map or reduce task.

The new architecture has its advantages. First, by breaking up the JobTracker into a few different services, it avoids many of the scaling issues faced by MapReduce in Hadoop 1. More importantly, it makes it possible to run frameworks other than MapReduce on a Hadoop cluster. For example, Impala can also run on YARN and share resources on a cluster with MapReduce.

For MapReduce Programmers: Writing and Running Jobs

Nearly all jobs written for CDH 4 MRv1 will be able to run without any modifications on an MRv2 cluster.

Java API Compatibility from CDH 4

MRv2 supports both the old (“mapred”) and new (“mapreduce”) MapReduce APIs used for MRv1, with a few caveats. The difference between the old and new APIs, which concerns user-facing changes, should not be confused with the difference between MRv1 and MRv2, which concerns changes to the underlying framework. CDH 4 and CDH 5 both support the new and old MapReduce APIs.

In general, applications that use @Public/@Stable APIs will be binary-compatible from CDH 4, meaning that compiled binaries should be able to run without modifications on the new framework. Source compatibility may be broken for applications that make use of a few obscure APIs that are technically public, but rarely needed and primarily exist for internal use. These APIs are detailed below. Source incompatibility means that code changes will be required to compile. It is orthogonal to binary compatibility - binaries for an application that is binary-compatible, but not source-compatible, will continue to run fine on the new framework, but code changes will be required to regenerate those binaries.
  Binary Incompatibilities Source Incompatibilities

CDH 4 MRv1 to CDH 5 MRv1

 None None

CDH 4 MRv1 to CDH 5 MRv2

 None Rare

CDH 5 MRv1 to CDH 5 MRv2

 None Rare

The following are the known source incompatibilities:

  • KeyValueLineRecordReader#getProgress and LineRecordReader#getProgress now throw IOExceptions in both the old and new APIs. Their superclass method, RecordReader#getProgress, already did this, but source compatibility will be broken for the rare code that used it without a try/catch block.
  • FileOutputCommitter#abortTask now throws an IOException. Its superclass method always did this, but source compatibility will be broken for the rare code that used it without a try/catch block. This was fixed in CDH 4.3 MRv1 to be compatible with MRv2.
  • Job#getDependentJobs, an API marked @Evolving, now returns a List instead of an ArrayList.

Compiling Jobs Against MRv2

If you are using Maven, compiling against MRv2 requires including the same artifact, hadoop-client. Changing the version to Hadoop 2 version (for example, using 2.2.0-cdh5.0.0 instead of 2.0.0-mr1-cdh4.3.0) should be enough. If you are not using Maven, compiling against all the Hadoop jars is recommended. A comprehensive list of Hadoop Maven artifacts is available at: Using the CDH 5 Maven Repository .

Job Configuration

As in MRv1, job configuration options can be specified on the command line, in Java code, or in the mapred-site.xml on the client machine in the same way they previously were. The vast majority of job configuration options that were available in MRv1 work in MRv2 as well. For consistency and clarity, many options have been given new names. The older names are deprecated, but will still work for the time being. The exceptions to this are mapred.child.ulimit and all options relating to JVM reuse, as these are no longer supported.

Submitting and Monitoring Jobs

The MapReduce command line interface remains entirely compatible. Use of the Hadoop command line tool to run MapReduce related commands ( pipes, job, queue, classpath, historyserver, distcp, archive ) is deprecated, but still works. The mapred command line tool is preferred for these commands.

Requesting Resources

A MapReduce job submission includes the amount of resources to reserve for each map and reduce task. As in MapReduce 1, the amount of memory requested is controlled by the mapreduce.map.memory.mb and mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb properties.

MapReduce 2 adds additional parameters that control how much processing power to reserve for each task as well. The mapreduce.map.cpu.vcores and mapreduce.reduce.cpu.vcores properties express how much parallelism a map or reduce task can take advantage of. These should remain at their default value of 1 unless your code is explicitly spawning extra compute-intensive threads.

For Administrators: Configuring and Running MRv2 Clusters

Configuration Migration

Since MapReduce 1 functionality has been split into two components, MapReduce cluster configuration options have been split into YARN configuration options, which go in yarn-site.xml, and MapReduce configuration options, which go in mapred-site.xml. Many have been given new names to reflect the shift. As JobTrackers and TaskTrackers no longer exist in MRv2, all configuration options pertaining to them no longer exist, although many have corresponding options for the ResourceManager, NodeManager and JobHistoryServer.

A minimal configuration required to run MRv2 jobs on YARN is:
  • yarn-site.xml configuration
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <property>
    <name>yarn.resourcemanager.hostname</name>
    <value>you.hostname.com</value>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services</name>
    <value>mapreduce_shuffle</value>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services.mapreduce.shuffle.class</name>
    <value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ShuffleHandler</value>
  </property>
</configuration>
  • mapred-site.xml configuration
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <property>
    <name>mapreduce.framework.name</name>
    <value>yarn</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

Resource Configuration

One of the larger changes in MRv2 is the way that resources are managed. In MRv1, each node was configured with a fixed number of map slots and a fixed number of reduce slots. Under YARN, there is no distinction between resources available for maps and resources available for reduces - all resources are available for both. Second, the notion of slots has been discarded, and resources are now configured in terms of amounts of memory (in megabytes) and CPU (in “virtual cores”, which are described below). Resource configuration is an inherently difficult topic, and the added flexibility that YARN provides in this regard also comes with added complexity. Cloudera Manager will pick sensible values automatically, but if you are setting up your cluster manually or just interested in the details, read on.

Resource Requests

From the perspective of a developer requesting resource allocations for a job’s tasks, nothing needs to be changed. Map and reduce task memory requests still work and, additionally, tasks that will use multiple threads can request more than 1 core with the mapreduce.map.cpu.vcores and mapreduce.reduce.cpu.vcores properties.

Configuring Node Capacities

In MRv1, the mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum and mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum properties dictated how many map and reduce slots each TaskTracker had. These properties no longer exist in YARN. Instead, YARN uses yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb and yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores, which control the amount of memory and CPU on each node, both available to both maps and reduces. If you were using Cloudera Manager to configure these automatically, Cloudera Manager will take care of it in MRv2 as well. If configuring these manually, simply set these to the amount of memory and number of cores on the machine after subtracting out resources needed for other services.

Virtual Cores

To better handle varying CPU requests, YARN supports virtual cores (vcores) , a resource meant to express parallelism. The “virtual” in the name is somewhat misleading - on the NodeManager, vcores should be configured equal to the number of physical cores on the machine. Tasks should be requested with vcores equal to the number of cores they can saturate at once. Currently vcores are very coarse - tasks will rarely want to ask for more than one of them, but a complementary axis that represents processing power may be added in the future to enable finer-grained resource configuration.

Rounding Request Sizes

Also noteworthy are the yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb, yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-vcores, yarn.scheduler.increment-allocation-mb, and yarn.scheduler.increment-allocation-vcores properties, which default to 1024, 1, 512, and 1 respectively. If tasks are submitted with resource requests lower than the minimum-allocation values, their requests will be set to these values. If tasks are submitted with resource requests that are not multiples of the increment-allocation values, their requests will be rounded up to the nearest increments.

To make all of this more concrete, let’s use an example. Each node in the cluster has 24 GB of memory and 6 cores. Other services running on the nodes require 4 GB and 1 core, so we set yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb to 20480 and yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores to 5. If you leave the map and reduce task defaults of 1024 MB and 1 virtual core intact, you will have at most 5 tasks running at the same time. If you want each of your tasks to use 5 GB, set their mapreduce.(map|reduce).memory.mb to 5120, which would limit you to 4 tasks running at the same time.

Scheduler Configuration

Cloudera supports use of the Fair and FIFO schedulers in MRv2. Fair Scheduler allocation files require changes in light of the new way that resources work. The minMaps, maxMaps, minReduces, and maxReduces queue properties have been replaced with a minResources property and a maxProperties. Instead of taking a number of slots, these properties take a value like “1024 MB, 3 vcores”. By default, the MRv2 Fair Scheduler will attempt to equalize memory allocations in the same way it attempted to equalize slot allocations in MRv1. The MRv2 Fair Scheduler contains a number of new features including hierarchical queues and fairness based on multiple resources.
  Important:

Cloudera does not support the Capacity Scheduler in YARN.

Administration Commands

The jobtracker and tasktracker commands, which start the JobTracker and TaskTracker, are no longer supported because these services no longer exist. They are replaced with “yarn resourcemanager” and “yarn nodemanager”, which start the ResourceManager and NodeManager respectively. “hadoop mradmin” is no longer supported. Instead, “yarn rmadmin” should be used. The new admin commands mimic the functionality of the MRv1 names, allowing nodes, queues, and ACLs to be refreshed while the ResourceManager is running.

Security

The following section outlines the additional changes needed to migrate a secure cluster.

New YARN Kerberos service principals should be created for the ResourceManager and NodeManager, using the pattern used for other Hadoop services, i.e. yarn@<HOST>. The mapred principal should still be used for the JobHistoryServer. If you are using Cloudera Manager to configure security, this will be taken care of automatically.

As in MRv1, a configuration must be set to have the user that submits a job own its task processes. The equivalent of MRv1’s LinuxTaskController is the LinuxContainerExecutor. In a secure setup, NodeManager configurations should set yarn.nodemanager.container-executor.class to org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.LinuxContainerExecutor. Properties set in the taskcontroller.cfg configuration file should be migrated to their analagous properties in the container-executor.cfg file.

In secure setups, configuring hadoop-policy.xml allows administrators to set up access control lists on internal protocols. The following is a table of MRv1 options and their MRv2 equivalents:

MRv1 MRv2 Comment
security.task.umbilical.protocol.acl security.job.task.protocol.acl As in MRv1, this should never be set to anything other than *
security.inter.tracker.protocol.acl security.resourcetracker.protocol.acl  
security.job.submission.protocol.acl security.applicationclient.protocol.acl  
security.admin.operations.protocol.acl security.resourcemanager-administration.protocol.acl  
  security.applicationmaster.protocol.acl No MRv1 equivalent
  security.containermanagement.protocol.acl No MRv1 equivalent
  security.resourcelocalizer.protocol.acl No MRv1 equivalent
  security.job.client.protocol.acl No MRv1 equivalent

Queue access control lists (ACLs) are now placed in the Fair Scheduler configuration file instead of the JobTracker configuration. A list of users and groups that can submit jobs to a queue can be placed in aclSubmitApps in the queue’s configuration. The queue administration ACL is no longer supported, but will be in a future release.

Ports

The following is a list of default ports used by MRv2 and YARN, as well as the configuration properties used to configure them.

Port Use Property
8032 ResourceManager Client RPC yarn.resourcemanager.address
8030 ResourceManager Scheduler RPC (for ApplicationMasters) yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.address
8033 ResourceManager Admin RPC yarn.resourcemanager.admin.address
8088 ResourceManager Web UI and REST APIs yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.address
8031 ResourceManager Resource Tracker RPC (for NodeManagers) yarn.resourcemanager.resource-tracker.address
8040 NodeManager Localizer RPC yarn.nodemanager.localizer.address
8042 NodeManager Web UI and REST APIs yarn.nodemanager.webapp.address
10020 Job History RPC mapreduce.jobhistory.address
19888 Job History Web UI and REST APIs mapreduce.jobhistory.webapp.address
13562 Shuffle HTTP mapreduce.shuffle.port

High Availability

YARN supports ResourceManager HA to make a YARN cluster highly-available; the underlying architecture of Active / Standby pair is similar to JobTracker HA in MRv1. A major improvement over MRv1 is: in YARN, the completed tasks of in-flight MapReduce jobs are not re-run on recovery after the ResourceManager is restarted or failed over. Further, the configuration and setup has also been simplified. The main differences are:
  1. Failover controller has been moved from a separate ZKFC daemon to be a part of the ResourceManager itself. So, there is no need to run an additional daemon.
  2. Clients, Applications, and NodeManagers do not require configuring a proxy-provider to talk to the active ResourceManager.
Below is a table with HA-related configurations used in MRv1 and their equivalents in YARN:
MRv1 YARN / MRv2 Comment 
mapred.jobtrackers.<name>
 
yarn.resourcemanager.ha.rm-ids
   
mapred.ha.jobtracker.id
 
yarn.resourcemanager.ha.id
 Unlike in MRv1, this must be configured in YARN. 
mapred.jobtracker.<rpc-
                    address>.<name>.<id>
 
yarn.resourcemanager.<rpc-address>.<id>
 YARN/ MRv2 has different RPC ports for different functionalities. Each port-related configuration must be suffixed with an id. Note that there is no <name> in YARN. 
mapred.ha.jobtracker. rpc-address.<name>.<id>
 
yarn.resourcemanager.ha.admin.address
   
mapred.ha.fencing.methods
 
yarn.resourcemanager.ha.fencer
 Not required to be specified 
mapred.client.failover.*
 None Not required
  
yarn.resourcemanager.ha.enabled
 Enable HA 
mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover
 
yarn.resourcemanager.recovery.enabled
 Enable recovery of jobs after failover
  
yarn.resourcemanager.store.class
 
org.apache .hadoop.yarn .server.resourcemanager .recovery                   .ZKRMStateStore
 
mapred.ha.automatic-failover.enabled
 
yarn.resourcemanager.ha.auto-failover.enabled
 Enable automatic failover 
mapred.ha.zkfc.port
 
yarn.resourcemanager.ha.auto-failover.port
   
mapred.job.tracker
 
yarn.resourcemanager.cluster.id
 Cluster name

Upgrading an MRv1 Installation with Cloudera Manager

See Importing MapReduce Configurations to YARN for instructions.

Manually Upgrading an MRv1 Installation

The following packages are no longer used in MRv2 and should be uninstalled: hadoop-0.20-mapreduce, hadoop-0.20-mapreduce-jobtracker, hadoop-0.20-mapreduce-tasktracker, hadoop-0.20-mapreduce-zkfc, hadoop-0.20-mapreduce-jobtrackerha

The following additional packages must be installed: hadoop-yarn, hadoop-mapreduce, hadoop-mapreduce-historyserver, hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager, hadoop-yarn-nodemanager.

The next step is to look at all the service configurations placed in mapred-site.xml and replace them with their corresponding YARN configuration. Configurations starting with “yarn” should be placed inside yarn-site.xml, not mapred-site.xml. Refer to the Resource Configuration section above for best practices on how to convert TaskTracker slot capacities (mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum and mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum) to NodeManager resource capacities (yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb and yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores), as well as how to convert configurations in the Fair Scheduler allocations file, fair-scheduler.xml.

Finally, you can start the ResourceManager, NodeManagers and the JobHistoryServer.

Web UI

In MapReduce 1, the JobTracker Web UI served detailed information about the state of the cluster and the jobs (recent and current) running on it. It also contained the job history page, which served information from disk about older jobs.

The MapReduce 2 Web UI provides the same information structured in the same way, but has been revamped with a new look and feel. The ResourceManager’s UI, which includes information about running applications and the state of the cluster, is now located by default at <ResourceManager host>:8088. The JobHistory UI is now located by default at <JobHistoryServer host>:19888. Jobs can be searched and viewed there just as they could in MapReduce 1.

Because the ResourceManager is meant to be agnostic to many of the concepts in MapReduce, it cannot host job information directly. Instead, it proxies to a Web UI that can. If the job is running, this proxy is the relevant MapReduce Application Master; if the job has completed, then this proxy is the JobHistoryServer. Thus, the user experience is similar to that of MapReduce 1, but the information is now coming from different places.

Summary of Configuration Changes

The following tables summarize the changes in configuration parameters between MRv1 and MRv2.

JobTracker Properties and ResourceManager Equivalents

MRv1 YARN / MRv2 
mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler
 
yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.class
 
mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum
 
yarn.resourcemanager.max-completed-applications
 
mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover
 
yarn.resourcemanager.recovery.enabled
 
mapred.job.tracker
 
yarn.resourcemanager.hostname
or all of the following:
yarn.resourcemanager.address
yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.address
yarn.resourcemanager.resource-tracker.address
yarn.resourcemanager.admin.address
 
mapred.job.tracker.http.address
 
yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.address
or
yarn.resourcemanager.hostname
 
mapred.job.tracker.handler.count
 
yarn.resourcemanager.resource-tracker.client.thread-count
 
mapred.hosts
 
yarn.resourcemanager.nodes.include-path
 
mapred.hosts.exclude
 
yarn.resourcemanager.nodes.exclude-path
 
mapred.cluster.max.map.memory.mb
 
yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb
 
mapred.cluster.max.reduce.memory.mb
 
yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb
 
mapred.acls.enabled
 
yarn.acl.enable
 
mapreduce.cluster.acls.enabled
 
yarn.acl.enable

JobTracker Properties and JobHistoryServer Equivalents

MRv1 YARN / MRv2 Comment 
mapred.job.tracker.retiredjobs.cache.size
 
mapreduce.jobhistory.joblist.cache.size
 
mapred.job.tracker.jobhistory.lru.cache.size
 
mapreduce.jobhistory.loadedjobs.cache.size
 
mapred.job.tracker.history.completed.location
 
mapreduce.jobhistory.done-dir
 Local FS in MR1; stored in HDFS in MR2 
hadoop.job.history.user.location
 
mapreduce.jobhistory.done-dir
 
hadoop.job.history.location
 
mapreduce.jobhistory.done-dir

JobTracker Properties and MapReduce ApplicationMaster Equivalents

MRv1 YARN / MRv2 Comment 
mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir
 
yarn.app.mapreduce.am.staging-dir
 Now configurable per job

TaskTracker Properties and NodeManager Equivalents

MRv1 YARN / MRv2 
mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum
 
yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb
and 
yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores
 
mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum
 
yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb
and 
yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores
 
mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval
 
yarn.nm.liveliness-monitor.expiry-interval-ms
 
mapred.tasktracker.resourcecalculatorplugin
 
yarn.nodemanager.container-monitor.resource-calculator.class
 
mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval
 
yarn.nodemanager.container-monitor.interval-ms
 
mapred.tasktracker.tasks.sleeptime-before-sigkill
 
yarn.nodemanager.sleep-delay-before-sigkill.ms
 
mapred.task.tracker.task-controller
 
yarn.nodemanager.container-executor.class
 
mapred.local.dir
 
yarn.nodemanager.local-dirs
 
mapreduce.cluster.local.dir
 
yarn.nodemanager.local-dirs
 
mapred.disk.healthChecker.interval
 
yarn.nodemanager.disk-health-checker.interval-ms
 
mapred.healthChecker.script.path
 
yarn.nodemanager.health-checker.script.path
 
mapred.healthChecker.interval
 
yarn.nodemanager.health-checker.interval-ms
 
mapred.healthChecker.script.timeout
 
yarn.nodemanager.health-checker.script.timeout-ms
 
mapred.healthChecker.script.args
 
yarn.nodemanager.health-checker.script.opts
 
local.cache.size
 
yarn.nodemanager.localizer.cache.target-size-mb
 
mapreduce.tasktracker.cache.local.size
 
yarn.nodemanager.localizer.cache.target-size-mb

TaskTracker Properties and Shuffle Service Equivalents

The table that follows shows TaskTracker properties and their equivalents in the auxiliary shuffle service that runs inside NodeManagers.

MRv1 YARN / MRv2 
tasktracker.http.threads
 
mapreduce.shuffle.max.threads
 
mapred.task.tracker.http.address
 
mapreduce.shuffle.port
 
mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb
 
mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb

Per-Job Configuration Properties

Many of these properties have new names in MRv2, but the MRv1 names will work for all properties except mapred.job.restart.recover.

MRv1 YARN / MRv2 Comment 
io.sort.mb
 
mapreduce.task.io.sort.mb
 MRv1 name still works 
io.sort.factor
 
mapreduce.task.io.sort.factor
 MRv1 name still works 
io.sort.spill.percent
 
mapreduce.task.io.sort.spill.percent
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.map.tasks
 
mapreduce.job.maps
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.reduce.tasks
 
mapreduce.job.reduces
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.job.map.memory.mb
 
mapreduce.map.memory.mb
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.job.reduce.memory.mb
 
mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.map.child.log.level
 
mapreduce.map.log.level
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.reduce.child.log.level
 
mapreduce.reduce.log.level
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.inmem.merge.threshold
 
mapreduce.reduce.shuffle.merge.inmem.threshold
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent
 
mapreduce.reduce.shuffle.merge.percent
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent
 
mapreduce.reduce.shuffle.input.buffer.percent
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent
 
mapreduce.reduce.input.buffer.percent
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution
 
mapreduce.map.speculative
 Old one still works 
mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution
 
mapreduce.reduce.speculative
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.min.split.size
 
mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.minsize
 MRv1 name still works 
keep.failed.task.files
 
mapreduce.task.files.preserve.failedtasks
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.output.compress
 
mapreduce.output.fileoutputformat.compress
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.map.output.compression.codec
 
mapreduce.map.output.compress.codec
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.compress.map.output
 
mapreduce.map.output.compress
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.output.compression.type
 
mapreduce.output.fileoutputformat.compress.type
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.userlog.limit.kb
 
mapreduce.task.userlog.limit.kb
 MRv1 name still works 
jobclient.output.filter
 
mapreduce.client.output.filter
 MRv1 name still works 
jobclient.completion.poll.interval
 
mapreduce.client.completion.pollinterval
 MRv1 name still works 
jobclient.progress.monitor.poll.interval
 
mapreduce.client.progressmonitor.pollinterval
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.task.profile
 
mapreduce.task.profile
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.task.profile.maps
 
mapreduce.task.profile.maps
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.task.profile.reduces
 
mapreduce.task.profile.reduces
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.line.input.format.linespermap
 
mapreduce.input.lineinputformat.linespermap
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping
 
mapreduce.task.skip.start.attempts
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count
 
mapreduce.map.skip.proc.count.autoincr
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count
 
mapreduce.reduce.skip.proc.count.autoincr
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.skip.out.dir
 
mapreduce.job.skip.outdir
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records
 
mapreduce.map.skip.maxrecords
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups
 
mapreduce.reduce.skip.maxgroups
 MRv1 name still works 
job.end.retry.attempts
 
mapreduce.job.end-notification.retry.attempts
 MRv1 name still works 
job.end.retry.interval
 
mapreduce.job.end-notification.retry.interval
 MRv1 name still works 
job.end.notification.url
 
mapreduce.job.end-notification.url
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress
 
mapreduce.task.merge.progress.records
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.job.queue.name
 
mapreduce.job.queuename
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps
 
mapreduce.job.reduce.slowstart.completedmaps
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.map.max.attempts
 
mapreduce.map.maxattempts
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.reduce.max.attempts
 
mapreduce.reduce.maxattempts
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.reduce.parallel.copies
 
mapreduce.reduce.shuffle.parallelcopies
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.task.timeout
 
mapreduce.task.timeout
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.max.tracker.failures
 
mapreduce.job.maxtaskfailures.per.tracker
 MRv1 name still works 
mapred.job.restart.recover
 
mapreduce.am.max-attempts
 
mapred.combine.recordsBeforeProgress
 
mapreduce.task.combine.progress.records
 MRv1 name should still work - see MAPREDUCE-5130

Miscellaneous Properties

MRv1 YARN / MRv2 
mapred.heartbeats.in.second
 
yarn.resourcemanager.nodemanagers.heartbeat-interval-ms
 
mapred.userlog.retain.hours
 
yarn.log-aggregation.retain-seconds

MRv1 Properties that have no MRv2 Equivalents

MRv1 Comment 
mapreduce.tasktracker.group
   
mapred.child.ulimit
   
mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface
   
mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver
   
mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation
 NodeManager does not accept instrumentation 
mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks
 JVM reuse no longer supported 
mapreduce.job.jvm.numtasks
 JVM reuse no longer supported 
mapred.task.tracker.report.address
 No need for this, as containers do not use IPC with NodeManagers, and AM ports are chosen at runtime 
mapreduce.task.tmp.dir
 No longer configurable. Now always tmp/ (under container's local dir) 
mapred.child.tmp
 No longer configurable. Now always tmp/ (under container's local dir) 
mapred.temp.dir
   
mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation
 ResourceManager does not accept instrumentation 
mapred.jobtracker.plugins
 ResourceManager does not accept plugins 
mapred.task.cache.level
   
mapred.queue.names
 These go in the scheduler-specific configuration files 
mapred.system.dir
   
mapreduce.tasktracker.cache.local.numberdirectories
   
mapreduce.reduce.input.limit
   
io.sort.record.percent
 Tuned automatically (MAPREDUCE-64) 
mapred.cluster.map.memory.mb
 Not necessary; MRv2 uses resources instead of slots 
mapred.cluster.reduce.memory.mb
 Not necessary; MRv2 uses resources instead of slots 
mapred.max.tracker.blacklists
   
mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job
 Related configurations go in scheduler-specific configuration files 
mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler.maxRunningTasksPerJob
 Related configurations go in scheduler-specific configuration files 
io.map.index.skip
   
mapred.user.jobconf.limit
   
mapred.local.dir.minspacestart
   
mapred.local.dir.minspacekill
   
hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.JobSubmissionProtocol
   
mapreduce.tasktracker.outofband.heartbeat
 Always on 
mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size
  
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