Chapter 7. Installing and Configuring Apache Tez

Tez is the next generation Hadoop Query Processing framework written on top of YARN.

Tez is a new and improved implementation of the MapReduce application that supports container reuse. This allows jobs to run faster on clusters that have limited resources per job. On smaller clusters, it reduces the time for a job to finish by efficiently using a container to run more than one task.

Use the following instructions to install and configure Tez:


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