This document discusses the next generation of Apache Hadoop and MapReduce. It outlines limitations with the current MapReduce framework including scalability, single points of failure, and lack of support for other programming paradigms. The next generation architecture addresses these by splitting the JobTracker into a ResourceManager and ApplicationMaster, distributing application management, and allowing custom application frameworks. This improves scalability, availability, utilization, and supports additional paradigms like iterative processing, while maintaining wire compatibility.