When you need to analyze terabytes of data, this book shows you how to do it efficiently with Pig. Author Alan Gates is co-founder of Hortonworks and an original member of the engineering team that took Pig from a Yahoo! Labs research project to a successful Apache open source project. This second edition, updated with programming examples, provides comprehensive coverage on key features such as the Pig Latin scripting language and the Grunt shell.

Author: Alan Gates and Daniel Dai
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: November 2016
Pages: 347
ISBN: 978-1491937099
Print: 1491937092
Kindle: B01N8TQ46A
Audience: Data programmers
Level: Intermediate
Category: Data Science

• Pig's data model, including scalar and complex data types
• Write Pig Latin scripts to sort, group, join, project, and filter your data Use Grunt to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Build complex data processing pipelines with Pig's macros and modularity features
• Embed Pig Latin in Python for iterative processing and other advanced tasks
• Use Pig with Apache Tez to build high-performance batch and interactive data processing applications
• Create your own load and store functions to handle data formats and storage mechanisms.

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