October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
50 pages
1h 15m
English
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Chapter 3. Pig and Python
Pig is composed of two major parts: a high-level data flow language called Pig Latin, and an engine that parses, optimizes, and executes the Pig Latin scripts as a series of MapReduce jobs that are run on a Hadoop cluster. Compared to Java MapReduce, Pig is easier to write, understand, and maintain because it is a data transformation language that allows the processing of data to be described as a sequence of transformations. Pig is also highly extensible through the use of the User Defined Functions (UDFs) which allow custom processing to be written in many languages, such as Python.
An example of a Pig application is the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process that describes how an application extracts data from a data source, transforms the data for querying and analysis purposes, and loads the result onto a target data store. Once Pig loads the data, it can perform projections, iterations, and other transformations. UDFs enable more complex algorithms to be applied during the transformation phase. After the data is done being processed by Pig, it can be stored back in HDFS.
This chapter begins with an example Pig script. Pig and Pig Latin are then introduced and described in detail with examples. The chapter concludes with an explanation of how Pig’s core features can be extended through the use of Python.
WordCount in Pig
Example 3-1 implements the WordCount algorithm in Pig. It assumes that a a data file, input.txt, is loaded in HDFS under /user/hduser/input ...
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