Pig in Hadoop
- User can perform all the data manipulation operations in Hadoop using Apache Pig.
- Apache Pig is an abstraction over MapReduce.
Need Apache Pig:
- Using Pig Latin, programmers can perform MapReduce tasks codes in Java.
- Apache Pig uses multi-query approach, it reducing the length of codes.
- For example, an operation that would require you to type 200 lines of code in Java can be easily done by typing just ten lines of codes in Apache Pig.
- Ultimately Apache Pig reduces the development time by almost sixteen times.