JSON ingress and egress patterns

The JSON ingestion pattern describes how you can use Pig Latin to ingest and egress data represented as JSON to and from the Hadoop File System to further process it in the data pipeline.

We will discuss the relevance of processing the data stored in JSON to the enterprise and understand the various ways in which Pig can be used to access and store the JSON data (simple JSON and nested JSON). You will understand the pros and cons of using simple JSON and nested JSON parsing, comprehend the motivation, and the use cases where JSON data is used in conjunction with Pig. You will also understand how Pig makes the ingestion of this data a lot more intuitively (by using external libraries such as elephant-bird) than doing ...

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