Apache Pig Tutorial

Apache Pig is an abstraction over MapReduce. It is a tool/platform which is used to analyze larger sets of data representing them as data flows. Pig is generally used with Hadoop; we can perform all the data manipulation operations in Hadoop using Pig.

Audience

This tutorial is meant for all those professionals working on Hadoop who would like to perform MapReduce operations without having to type complex codes in Java.

Prerequisites

To make the most of this tutorial, you should have a good understanding of the basics of Hadoop and HDFS commands. It will certainly help if you are good at SQL.