This document discusses Apache Tez, a framework for accelerating Hadoop query processing. Tez is designed to express query computations as dataflow graphs and execute them efficiently on YARN. It addresses limitations of MapReduce by allowing for custom dataflows and optimizations. Tez provides APIs for defining DAGs of tasks and customizing inputs/outputs/processors. This allows applications to focus on business logic while Tez handles distributed execution, fault tolerance, and resource management for Hadoop clusters.