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Yelp/mrjob

Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Yelp/mrjob · homepage · Python · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

66/100

  • Activity 75
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5803
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 153
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2613 stars · 580 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

mrjob is a Python library for writing and running Hadoop Streaming MapReduce jobs, with support for Amazon EMR, Google Cloud Dataproc, self-managed Hadoop clusters, and local execution for testing. It also supports launching Spark jobs and handles multi-step jobs, environment setup, and error log interpretation.

Use cases

  • run mapreduce jobs on hadoop from python
  • run batch data processing on amazon emr
  • test hadoop streaming jobs locally before deploying
  • run multi-step mapreduce pipelines
  • launch spark jobs on emr from python
  • process large log files with mapreduce
  • run word count and frequency analysis on a hadoop cluster

When to choose

  • you need to write Hadoop Streaming jobs in pure Python without JVM boilerplate
  • you want to run the same job locally, on EMR, Dataproc, or your own Hadoop cluster
  • you need multi-step MapReduce pipelines with automatic config and log interpretation

When to avoid

  • you are starting a new project - modern data processing tools like Spark, Dask, or Ray are better supported
  • you need real-time or stream processing rather than batch MapReduce
  • you are not tied to Hadoop or EMR infrastructure

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

etl streaming data-science cli big-data cloud-computing developer-tools python cli cloud mapreduce hadoop hadoop-streaming amazon-emr google-cloud-dataproc spark distributed-computing batch-processing data-engineering

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