Oozie is a workflow scheduler system for Apache Hadoop that manages dependent jobs as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). It is integrated with Hadoop and supports jobs like MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Sqoop, and DistCp. Oozie consists of a workflow engine that stores and runs workflows of Hadoop jobs and a coordinator engine that runs workflows based on schedules and data availability. It is designed to scale to thousands of workflows and makes rerunning failed workflows more manageable.