Overview

Tez is a new application framework built on Hadoop Yarn that can execute complex directed acyclic graphs of general data processing tasks. In many ways it can be thought of as a more flexible and powerful successor of the map-reduce framework.

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More information about Tez can be found here:

• Tez apache pagewebsite: http://incubatortez.apache.org/projects/tez.html
• Tez design doc: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEZ-65
• Tez presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLLzlsz7h8
• Tez slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Hadoop_Summit/murhty-saha-june26255pmroom212

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For information about how to configure Hive 0.13.0+ for Tez, see the release notes for HIVE-6098, Merge Tez branch into trunk.  Also see Configuration Properties:  TezTez for descriptions of all the Tez parameters.

Hive-Tez Compatibility

For a list of Hive and Tez releases that are compatible with each other, see Hive-Tez Compatibility.