This document discusses Apache Tez, a framework for accelerating Hadoop query processing. Some key points:
- Tez is a dataflow framework that expresses computations as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks, allowing for optimizations like container reuse and locality-aware scheduling.
- It is built on YARN and provides a customizable execution engine as well as APIs for applications like Hive and Pig.
- By expressing jobs as DAGs, Tez can reduce overheads, queueing delays, and better utilize cluster resources compared to the traditional MapReduce framework.
- The document provides examples of how Tez can improve performance for operations like joins, aggregations, and handling of multiple outputs