Apache Pig is a platform to analyze large data sets using a procedural language known as Pig Latin. One of the challenges with MapReduce is that to represent complex processing, you have to create multiple MapReduce operations and then chain them together to achieve the desired result, which is not easy or maintainable when requirements change very often. Instead, you can use Pig, which represents transformations as a data flow. You can write different transformations, one after another, to achieve the desired result. Apache Pig is mainly used in data manipulation operations, ...
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5. Using Pig with HDInsight
Vinit Yadav1
(1)Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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