It manages the jobs in Apache Hadoop, which is is a workflow scheduler system.

It also provides a mechanism to run the job on a given schedule.

It integrates the Hadoop stack with itself to support several out of the box Hadoop jobs such as Java map-reduce, Pig, Sqoop, Hive, Streaming map-reduce, and Distcp and also, system-specific jobs such as shell scripts and Java programs.

It is a scalable, reliable, and extensible system.

It is executed as a Java web application that runs in a Java servlet container

Oozie Bundle provides a way to package multiple coordinators and workflow jobs and to manage the life cycle of jobs.

1. Workflow engine: Responsibility of a workflow engine is to store and run work flows composed of Hadoop jobs e.g., MapReduce, Pig, Hive.

2. Coordinator engine: It runs workflow jobs based on predefined schedules and availability of data.

It has client API and command line interface which can be used to launch, control, and monitor job from a Java application.

Using its Web Service APIs one can control jobs from anywhere.

It has provision to execute jobs which are scheduled to run periodically.

It has provision to send email notifications upon completion of jobs.