Pig Design Patterns

Understanding Pig through the code

The following subsections have a brief description of the operators and their usage:

Pig's extensibility

In the use case example, the REGISTER function is one of the three ways to incorporate external custom code in Pig scripts. Let's quickly examine the other two Pig extensibility features in this section to get a better understanding.

• REGISTER: The UDFs provide one avenue to include the user code. To use the UDF written in Java, Python, JRuby, or Groovy, we use the REGISTER function in the Pig script to register the container (JAR and Python script). To register a Python UDF, you also need to explicitly provide which compiler the Python script will be using. This can be done using Jython.

  In our example, the following ...