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Hadoop Essentials

You're reading from   Hadoop Essentials Delve into the key concepts of Hadoop and get a thorough understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784396688
Length 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shiva Achari Shiva Achari
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Preface 1. Introduction to Big Data and Hadoop FREE CHAPTER 2. Hadoop Ecosystem 3. Pillars of Hadoop – HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN 4. Data Access Components – Hive and Pig 5. Storage Component – HBase 6. Data Ingestion in Hadoop – Sqoop and Flume 7. Streaming and Real-time Analysis – Storm and Spark Index

Pig

Pig is a component which has the abstraction wrapper of Pig Latin language on top of MapReduce. Pig was developed by Yahoo! around 2006 and was contributed to Apache as an open source project. Pig Latin is a data flow language that is more comfortable for a procedural language developer or user. Pig can help manage the data in a flow which is ideal for the data flow process, ETL (Extract Transform Load), or the ELT (Extract Load Transform) process ad hoc data analysis.

Pig can be used in a much easier way for structured and semi-structured data analysis. Pig was developed based on a philosophy, which is that Pigs can eat anything, live anywhere, can be easily controlled and modified by the user, and it is important to process data quickly.

Pig data types

Pig has a collection of primitive data types, as well as complex data types. Inputs and outputs to Pig's relational operators are specified using these data types:

  • Primitive: int, long, float, double, chararray, and bytearray
  • Map: Map...
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