Apache Pig - Quick Guide

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Apache Pig - Overview

What is Apache Pig?

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 Apache Pig.

To write data analysis programs, Pig provides a high-level language known as Pig Latin. This language provides various operators using which programmers can develop their own functions for reading, writing, and processing data.

To analyze data using Apache Pig, programmers need to write scripts using Pig Latin language. All these scripts are internally converted to Map and Reduce tasks. Apache Pig has a component known as Pig Engine that accepts the Pig Latin scripts as input and converts those scripts into MapReduce jobs.

Why Do We Need Apache Pig?

Programmers who are not so good at Java normally used to struggle working with Hadoop, especially while performing any MapReduce tasks. Apache Pig is a boon for all such programmers.

• Using Pig Latin, programmers can perform MapReduce tasks easily without having to type complex codes in Java.

• Apache Pig uses multi-query approach, thereby reducing the length of codes. For example, an operation that would require you to type 200 lines of code (LoC) in Java can be easily done by typing as less as just 10 LoC in Apache Pig. Ultimately Apache Pig reduces the development time by almost 16 times.

• Pig Latin is SQL-like language and it is easy to learn Apache Pig when you are familiar with SQL.

• Apache Pig provides many built-in operators to support data operations like joins, filters, ordering, etc. In addition, it also provides nested data types like tuples, bags, and maps that are missing from MapReduce.

Features of Pig

Apache Pig comes with the following features −

• Rich set of operators − It provides many operators to perform operations like join, sort, filer, etc.

• Ease of programming − Pig Latin is similar to SQL and it is easy to write a Pig script if you are good at SQL.

• Optimization opportunities − The tasks in Apache Pig optimize their execution automatically, so the programmers need to focus only on semantics of the language.

• Extensibility − Using the existing operators, users can develop their own functions to read, process, and write data.

• UDF’s − Pig provides the facility to create User-defined Functions in other programming languages such as Java and invoke or embed them in Pig Scripts.

• Handles all kinds of data − Apache Pig analyzes all kinds of data, both structured as well as unstructured. It stores the results in HDFS.

Apache Pig Vs MapReduce

Listed below are the major differences between Apache Pig and MapReduce.

Apache Pig Vs SQL

Listed below are the major differences between Apache Pig and SQL.

In addition to above differences, Apache Pig Latin −

• Allows splits in the pipeline.
• Allows developers to store data anywhere in the pipeline.
• Declares execution plans.
• Provides operators to perform ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) functions.

Apache Pig Vs Hive

Both Apache Pig and Hive are used to create MapReduce jobs. And in some cases, Hive operates on HDFS in a similar way Apache Pig does. In the following table, we have listed a few significant points that set Apache Pig apart from Hive.

Applications of Apache Pig

Apache Pig is generally used by data scientists for performing tasks involving ad-hoc processing and quick prototyping. Apache Pig is used −

• To process huge data sources such as web logs.
• To perform data processing for search platforms.
• To process time sensitive data loads.

Apache Pig – History

In 2006, Apache Pig was developed as a research project at Yahoo, especially to create and execute MapReduce jobs on every dataset. In 2007, Apache Pig was open sourced via Apache incubator. In 2008, the first release of Apache Pig came out. In 2010, Apache Pig graduated as an Apache top-level project.

Apache Pig - Architecture

The language used to analyze data in Hadoop using Pig is known as Pig Latin. It is a highlevel data processing language which provides a rich set of data types and operators to perform various operations on the data.

To perform a particular task Programmers using Pig, programmers need to write a Pig script using the Pig Latin language, and execute them using any of the execution mechanisms (Grunt Shell, UDFs, Embedded). After execution, these scripts will go through a series of transformations applied by the Pig Framework, to produce the desired output.

Internally, Apache Pig converts these scripts into a series of MapReduce jobs, and thus, it makes the programmer’s job easy. The architecture of Apache Pig is shown below.

Apache Pig Components

As shown in the figure, there are various components in the Apache Pig framework. Let us take a look at the major components.

Parser

Initially the Pig Scripts are handled by the Parser. It checks the syntax of the script, does type checking, and other miscellaneous checks. The output of the parser will be a DAG (directed acyclic graph), which represents the Pig Latin statements and logical operators.

In the DAG, the logical operators of the script are represented as the nodes and the data flows are represented as edges.

Optimizer

The logical plan (DAG) is passed to the logical optimizer, which carries out the logical optimizations such as projection and pushdown.

Compiler

The compiler compiles the optimized logical plan into a series of MapReduce jobs.

Execution engine

Finally the MapReduce jobs are submitted to Hadoop in a sorted order. Finally, these MapReduce jobs are executed on Hadoop producing the desired results.

Pig Latin Data Model

The data model of Pig Latin is fully nested and it allows complex non-atomic datatypes such as map and tuple. Given below is the diagrammatical representation of Pig Latin’s data model.

Atom

Any single value in Pig Latin, irrespective of their data, type is known as an Atom. It is stored as string and can be used as string and number. int, long, float, double, chararray, and bytearray are the atomic values of Pig. A piece of data or a simple atomic value is known as a field.

Example − ‘raja’ or ‘30’

Tuple

A record that is formed by an ordered set of fields is known as a tuple, the fields can be of any type. A tuple is similar to a row in a table of RDBMS.

Example − (Raja, 30)

Bag

A bag is an unordered set of tuples. In other words, a collection of tuples (non-unique) is known as a bag. Each tuple can have any number of fields (flexible schema). A bag is represented by ‘{}’. It is similar to a table in RDBMS, but unlike a table in RDBMS, it is not necessary that every tuple contain the same number of fields or that the fields in the same position (column) have the same type.

Example − {(Raja, 30), (Mohammad, 45)}

A bag can be a field in a relation; in that context, it is known as inner bag.

Example − {Raja, 30, {9848022338, raja@gmail.com,}}

Map

A map (or data map) is a set of key-value pairs. The key needs to be of type chararray and should be unique. The value might be of any type. It is represented by ‘[]’

Example − [name#Raja, age#30]

Relation

A relation is a bag of tuples. The relations in Pig Latin are unordered (there is no guarantee that tuples are processed in any particular order).

Apache Pig - Installation

This chapter explains the how to download, install, and set up Apache Pig in your system.

Prerequisites

It is essential that you have Hadoop and Java installed on your system before you go for Apache Pig. Therefore, prior to installing Apache Pig, install Hadoop and Java by following the steps given in the following link −

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/hadoop/hadoop_enviornment_setup.htm

Download Apache Pig

First of all, download the latest version of Apache Pig from the following website − https://pig.apache.org/

Step 1

Open the homepage of Apache Pig website. Under the section News, click on the link release page as shown in the following snapshot.

Step 2

On clicking the specified link, you will be redirected to the Apache Pig Releases page. On this page, under the Download section, you will have two links, namely, Pig 0.8 and later and Pig 0.7 and before. Click on the link Pig 0.8 and later, then you will be redirected to the page having a set of mirrors.

Step 3

Choose and click any one of these mirrors as shown below.

Step 4

These mirrors will take you to the Pig Releases page. This page contains various versions of Apache Pig. Click the latest version among them.

Step 5

Within these folders, you will have the source and binary files of Apache Pig in various distributions. Download the tar files of the source and binary files of Apache Pig 0.15, pig0.15.0-src.tar.gz and pig-0.15.0.tar.gz.

Install Apache Pig

After downloading the Apache Pig software, install it in your Linux environment by following the steps given below.

Step 1

Create a directory with the name Pig in the same directory where the installation directories of Hadoop, Java, and other software were installed. (In our tutorial, we have created the Pig directory in the user named Hadoop).

$ mkdir Pig

Step 2

Extract the downloaded tar files as shown below.

$ cd Downloads/ 
$ tar zxvf pig-0.15.0-src.tar.gz 
$ tar zxvf pig-0.15.0.tar.gz 

Step 3

Move the content of pig-0.15.0-src.tar.gz file to the Pig directory created earlier as shown below.

$ mv pig-0.15.0-src.tar.gz/* /home/Hadoop/Pig/

Configure Apache Pig

After installing Apache Pig, we have to configure it. To configure, we need to edit two files − bashrc and pig.properties.

.bashrc file

In the .bashrc file, set the following variables −

• PIG_HOME folder to the Apache Pig’s installation folder,

• PATH environment variable to the bin folder, and

• PIG_CLASSPATH environment variable to the etc (configuration) folder of your Hadoop installations (the directory that contains the core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml and mapred-site.xml files).

export PIG_HOME = /home/Hadoop/Pig
export PATH  = $PATH:/home/Hadoop/pig/bin
export PIG_CLASSPATH = $HADOOP_HOME/conf

pig.properties file

In the conf folder of Pig, we have a file named pig.properties. In the pig.properties file, you can set various parameters as given below.

pig -h properties 

The following properties are supported −

Logging: verbose = true|false; default is false. This property is the same as -v
       switch brief=true|false; default is false. This property is the same 
       as -b switch debug=OFF|ERROR|WARN|INFO|DEBUG; default is INFO.             
       This property is the same as -d switch aggregate.warning = true|false; default is true. 
       If true, prints count of warnings of each type rather than logging each warning.		 
		 
Performance tuning: pig.cachedbag.memusage=<mem fraction>; default is 0.2 (20% of all memory).
       Note that this memory is shared across all large bags used by the application.         
       pig.skewedjoin.reduce.memusagea=<mem fraction>; default is 0.3 (30% of all memory).
       Specifies the fraction of heap available for the reducer to perform the join.
       pig.exec.nocombiner = true|false; default is false.
           Only disable combiner as a temporary workaround for problems.         
       opt.multiquery = true|false; multiquery is on by default.
           Only disable multiquery as a temporary workaround for problems.
       opt.fetch=true|false; fetch is on by default.
           Scripts containing Filter, Foreach, Limit, Stream, and Union can be dumped without MR jobs.         
       pig.tmpfilecompression = true|false; compression is off by default.             
           Determines whether output of intermediate jobs is compressed.         
       pig.tmpfilecompression.codec = lzo|gzip; default is gzip.
           Used in conjunction with pig.tmpfilecompression. Defines compression type.         
       pig.noSplitCombination = true|false. Split combination is on by default.
           Determines if multiple small files are combined into a single map.         
			  
       pig.exec.mapPartAgg = true|false. Default is false.             
           Determines if partial aggregation is done within map phase, before records are sent to combiner.         
       pig.exec.mapPartAgg.minReduction=<min aggregation factor>. Default is 10.             
           If the in-map partial aggregation does not reduce the output num records by this factor, it gets disabled.
			  
Miscellaneous: exectype = mapreduce|tez|local; default is mapreduce. This property is the same as -x switch
       pig.additional.jars.uris=<comma seperated list of jars>. Used in place of register command.
       udf.import.list=<comma seperated list of imports>. Used to avoid package names in UDF.
       stop.on.failure = true|false; default is false. Set to true to terminate on the first error.         
       pig.datetime.default.tz=<UTC time offset>. e.g. +08:00. Default is the default timezone of the host.
           Determines the timezone used to handle datetime datatype and UDFs.
Additionally, any Hadoop property can be specified.

Verifying the Installation

Verify the installation of Apache Pig by typing the version command. If the installation is successful, you will get the version of Apache Pig as shown below.

$ pig –version 
 
Apache Pig version 0.15.0 (r1682971)  
compiled Jun 01 2015, 11:44:35

Apache Pig - Execution

In the previous chapter, we explained how to install Apache Pig. In this chapter, we will discuss how to execute Apache Pig.

Apache Pig Execution Modes

You can run Apache Pig in two modes, namely, Local Mode and HDFS mode.

Local Mode

In this mode, all the files are installed and run from your local host and local file system. There is no need of Hadoop or HDFS. This mode is generally used for testing purpose.

MapReduce Mode

MapReduce mode is where we load or process the data that exists in the Hadoop File System (HDFS) using Apache Pig. In this mode, whenever we execute the Pig Latin statements to process the data, a MapReduce job is invoked in the back-end to perform a particular operation on the data that exists in the HDFS.

Apache Pig Execution Mechanisms

Apache Pig scripts can be executed in three ways, namely, interactive mode, batch mode, and embedded mode.

• Interactive Mode (Grunt shell) − You can run Apache Pig in interactive mode using the Grunt shell. In this shell, you can enter the Pig Latin statements and get the output (using Dump operator).

• Batch Mode (Script) − You can run Apache Pig in Batch mode by writing the Pig Latin script in a single file with .pig extension.

• Embedded Mode (UDF) − Apache Pig provides the provision of defining our own functions (User Defined Functions) in programming languages such as Java, and using them in our script.

Invoking the Grunt Shell

You can invoke the Grunt shell in a desired mode (local/MapReduce) using the −x option as shown below.

Either of these commands gives you the Grunt shell prompt as shown below.

grunt>

You can exit the Grunt shell using ‘ctrl + d’.

After invoking the Grunt shell, you can execute a Pig script by directly entering the Pig Latin statements in it.

grunt> customers = LOAD 'customers.txt' USING PigStorage(',');

Executing Apache Pig in Batch Mode

You can write an entire Pig Latin script in a file and execute it using the –x command. Let us suppose we have a Pig script in a file named sample_script.pig as shown below.

Sample_script.pig

student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student.txt' USING
   PigStorage(',') as (id:int,name:chararray,city:chararray);
  
Dump student;

Now, you can execute the script in the above file as shown below.

Note − We will discuss in detail how to run a Pig script in Bach mode and in embedded mode in subsequent chapters.

Apache Pig - Grunt Shell

After invoking the Grunt shell, you can run your Pig scripts in the shell. In addition to that, there are certain useful shell and utility commands provided by the Grunt shell. This chapter explains the shell and utility commands provided by the Grunt shell.

Note − In some portions of this chapter, the commands like Load and Store are used. Refer the respective chapters to get in-detail information on them.

Shell Commands

The Grunt shell of Apache Pig is mainly used to write Pig Latin scripts. Prior to that, we can invoke any shell commands using sh and fs.

sh Command

Using sh command, we can invoke any shell commands from the Grunt shell. Using sh command from the Grunt shell, we cannot execute the commands that are a part of the shell environment (ex − cd).

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of sh command.

grunt> sh shell command parameters

Example

We can invoke the ls command of Linux shell from the Grunt shell using the sh option as shown below. In this example, it lists out the files in the /pig/bin/ directory.

grunt> sh ls
   
pig 
pig_1444799121955.log 
pig.cmd 
pig.py

fs Command

Using the fs command, we can invoke any FsShell commands from the Grunt shell.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of fs command.

grunt> sh File System command parameters

Example

We can invoke the ls command of HDFS from the Grunt shell using fs command. In the following example, it lists the files in the HDFS root directory.

grunt> fs –ls
  
Found 3 items
drwxrwxrwx   - Hadoop supergroup          0 2015-09-08 14:13 Hbase
drwxr-xr-x   - Hadoop supergroup          0 2015-09-09 14:52 seqgen_data
drwxr-xr-x   - Hadoop supergroup          0 2015-09-08 11:30 twitter_data

In the same way, we can invoke all the other file system shell commands from the Grunt shell using the fs command.

Utility Commands

The Grunt shell provides a set of utility commands. These include utility commands such as clear, help, history, quit, and set; and commands such as exec, kill, and run to control Pig from the Grunt shell. Given below is the description of the utility commands provided by the Grunt shell.

clear Command

The clear command is used to clear the screen of the Grunt shell.

Syntax

You can clear the screen of the grunt shell using the clear command as shown below.

grunt> clear

help Command

The help command gives you a list of Pig commands or Pig properties.

Usage

You can get a list of Pig commands using the help command as shown below.

grunt> help

Commands: <pig latin statement>; - See the PigLatin manual for details:
http://hadoop.apache.org/pig
  
File system commands:fs <fs arguments> - Equivalent to Hadoop dfs  command:
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/hdfs_shell.html
	 
Diagnostic Commands:describe <alias>[::<alias] - Show the schema for the alias.
Inner aliases can be described as A::B.
    explain [-script <pigscript>] [-out <path>] [-brief] [-dot|-xml] 
       [-param <param_name>=<pCram_value>]
       [-param_file <file_name>] [<alias>] - 
       Show the execution plan to compute the alias or for entire script.
       -script - Explain the entire script.
       -out - Store the output into directory rather than print to stdout.
       -brief - Don't expand nested plans (presenting a smaller graph for overview).
       -dot - Generate the output in .dot format. Default is text format.
       -xml - Generate the output in .xml format. Default is text format.
       -param <param_name - See parameter substitution for details.
       -param_file <file_name> - See parameter substitution for details.
       alias - Alias to explain.
       dump <alias> - Compute the alias and writes the results to stdout.

Utility Commands: exec [-param <param_name>=param_value] [-param_file <file_name>] <script> -
       Execute the script with access to grunt environment including aliases.
       -param <param_name - See parameter substitution for details.
       -param_file <file_name> - See parameter substitution for details.
       script - Script to be executed.
    run [-param <param_name>=param_value] [-param_file <file_name>] <script> -
       Execute the script with access to grunt environment.
		 -param <param_name - See parameter substitution for details.         
       -param_file <file_name> - See parameter substitution for details.
       script - Script to be executed.
    sh  <shell command> - Invoke a shell command.
    kill <job_id> - Kill the hadoop job specified by the hadoop job id.
    set <key> <value> - Provide execution parameters to Pig. Keys and values are case sensitive.
       The following keys are supported:
       default_parallel - Script-level reduce parallelism. Basic input size heuristics used 
       by default.
       debug - Set debug on or off. Default is off.
       job.name - Single-quoted name for jobs. Default is PigLatin:<script name>     
       job.priority - Priority for jobs. Values: very_low, low, normal, high, very_high.
       Default is normal stream.skippath - String that contains the path.
       This is used by streaming any hadoop property.
    help - Display this message.
    history [-n] - Display the list statements in cache.
       -n Hide line numbers.
    quit - Quit the grunt shell. 

history Command

This command displays a list of statements executed / used so far since the Grunt sell is invoked.

Usage

Assume we have executed three statements since opening the Grunt shell.

grunt> customers = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/customers.txt' USING PigStorage(',');
 
grunt> orders = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/orders.txt' USING PigStorage(',');
 
grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student.txt' USING PigStorage(',');
 

Then, using the history command will produce the following output.

grunt> history

customers = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/customers.txt' USING PigStorage(','); 
  
orders = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/orders.txt' USING PigStorage(',');
   
student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student.txt' USING PigStorage(',');
 

set Command

The set command is used to show/assign values to keys used in Pig.

Usage

Using this command, you can set values to the following keys.

quit Command

You can quit from the Grunt shell using this command.

Usage

Quit from the Grunt shell as shown below.

grunt> quit

Let us now take a look at the commands using which you can control Apache Pig from the Grunt shell.

exec Command

Using the exec command, we can execute Pig scripts from the Grunt shell.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the utility command exec.

grunt> exec [–param param_name = param_value] [–param_file file_name] [script]

Example

Let us assume there is a file named student.txt in the /pig_data/ directory of HDFS with the following content.

Student.txt

001,Rajiv,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Delhi

And, assume we have a script file named sample_script.pig in the /pig_data/ directory of HDFS with the following content.

Sample_script.pig

student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student.txt' USING PigStorage(',') 
   as (id:int,name:chararray,city:chararray);
  
Dump student;

Now, let us execute the above script from the Grunt shell using the exec command as shown below.

grunt> exec /sample_script.pig

Output

The exec command executes the script in the sample_script.pig. As directed in the script, it loads the student.txt file into Pig and gives you the result of the Dump operator displaying the following content.

(1,Rajiv,Hyderabad)
(2,siddarth,Kolkata)
(3,Rajesh,Delhi) 

kill Command

You can kill a job from the Grunt shell using this command.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the kill command.

grunt> kill JobId

Example

Suppose there is a running Pig job having id Id_0055, you can kill it from the Grunt shell using the kill command, as shown below.

grunt> kill Id_0055

run Command

You can run a Pig script from the Grunt shell using the run command

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the run command.

grunt> run [–param param_name = param_value] [–param_file file_name] script

Example

Let us assume there is a file named student.txt in the /pig_data/ directory of HDFS with the following content.

Student.txt

001,Rajiv,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Delhi

And, assume we have a script file named sample_script.pig in the local filesystem with the following content.

Sample_script.pig

student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student.txt' USING
   PigStorage(',') as (id:int,name:chararray,city:chararray);

Now, let us run the above script from the Grunt shell using the run command as shown below.

grunt> run /sample_script.pig

You can see the output of the script using the Dump operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump;

(1,Rajiv,Hyderabad)
(2,siddarth,Kolkata)
(3,Rajesh,Delhi)

Note − The difference between exec and the run command is that if we use run, the statements from the script are available in the command history.

Pig Latin – Basics

Pig Latin is the language used to analyze data in Hadoop using Apache Pig. In this chapter, we are going to discuss the basics of Pig Latin such as Pig Latin statements, data types, general and relational operators, and Pig Latin UDF’s.

Pig Latin – Data Model

As discussed in the previous chapters, the data model of Pig is fully nested. A Relation is the outermost structure of the Pig Latin data model. And it is a bag where −

• A bag is a collection of tuples.
• A tuple is an ordered set of fields.
• A field is a piece of data.

Pig Latin – Statemets

While processing data using Pig Latin, statements are the basic constructs.

• These statements work with relations. They include expressions and schemas.

• Every statement ends with a semicolon (;).

• We will perform various operations using operators provided by Pig Latin, through statements.

• Except LOAD and STORE, while performing all other operations, Pig Latin statements take a relation as input and produce another relation as output.

• As soon as you enter a Load statement in the Grunt shell, its semantic checking will be carried out. To see the contents of the schema, you need to use the Dump operator. Only after performing the dump operation, the MapReduce job for loading the data into the file system will be carried out.

Example

Given below is a Pig Latin statement, which loads data to Apache Pig.

grunt> Student_data = LOAD 'student_data.txt' USING PigStorage(',')as 
   ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray );

Pig Latin – Data types

Given below table describes the Pig Latin data types.

Null Values

Values for all the above data types can be NULL. Apache Pig treats null values in a similar way as SQL does.

A null can be an unknown value or a non-existent value. It is used as a placeholder for optional values. These nulls can occur naturally or can be the result of an operation.

Pig Latin – Arithmetic Operators

The following table describes the arithmetic operators of Pig Latin. Suppose a = 10 and b = 20.

Pig Latin – Comparison Operators

The following table describes the comparison operators of Pig Latin.

Pig Latin – Type Construction Operators

The following table describes the Type construction operators of Pig Latin.

Pig Latin – Relational Operations

The following table describes the relational operators of Pig Latin.

Apache Pig - Reading Data

In general, Apache Pig works on top of Hadoop. It is an analytical tool that analyzes large datasets that exist in the Hadoop File System. To analyze data using Apache Pig, we have to initially load the data into Apache Pig. This chapter explains how to load data to Apache Pig from HDFS.

Preparing HDFS

In MapReduce mode, Pig reads (loads) data from HDFS and stores the results back in HDFS. Therefore, let us start HDFS and create the following sample data in HDFS.

The above dataset contains personal details like id, first name, last name, phone number and city, of six students.

Step 1: Verifying Hadoop

First of all, verify the installation using Hadoop version command, as shown below.

$ hadoop version

If your system contains Hadoop, and if you have set the PATH variable, then you will get the following output −

Hadoop 2.6.0 
Subversion https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop.git -r 
e3496499ecb8d220fba99dc5ed4c99c8f9e33bb1 
Compiled by jenkins on 2014-11-13T21:10Z 
Compiled with protoc 2.5.0 
From source with checksum 18e43357c8f927c0695f1e9522859d6a 
This command was run using /home/Hadoop/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/hadoop
common-2.6.0.jar

Step 2: Starting HDFS

Browse through the sbin directory of Hadoop and start yarn and Hadoop dfs (distributed file system) as shown below.

cd /$Hadoop_Home/sbin/ 
$ start-dfs.sh 
localhost: starting namenode, logging to /home/Hadoop/hadoop/logs/hadoopHadoop-namenode-localhost.localdomain.out 
localhost: starting datanode, logging to /home/Hadoop/hadoop/logs/hadoopHadoop-datanode-localhost.localdomain.out 
Starting secondary namenodes [0.0.0.0] 
starting secondarynamenode, logging to /home/Hadoop/hadoop/logs/hadoop-Hadoopsecondarynamenode-localhost.localdomain.out
 
$ start-yarn.sh 
starting yarn daemons 
starting resourcemanager, logging to /home/Hadoop/hadoop/logs/yarn-Hadoopresourcemanager-localhost.localdomain.out 
localhost: starting nodemanager, logging to /home/Hadoop/hadoop/logs/yarnHadoop-nodemanager-localhost.localdomain.out

Step 3: Create a Directory in HDFS

In Hadoop DFS, you can create directories using the command mkdir. Create a new directory in HDFS with the name Pig_Data in the required path as shown below.

$cd /$Hadoop_Home/bin/ 
$ hdfs dfs -mkdir hdfs://localhost:9000/Pig_Data 

Step 4: Placing the data in HDFS

The input file of Pig contains each tuple/record in individual lines. And the entities of the record are separated by a delimiter (In our example we used “,”).

In the local file system, create an input file student_data.txt containing data as shown below.

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

Now, move the file from the local file system to HDFS using put command as shown below. (You can use copyFromLocal command as well.)

$ cd $HADOOP_HOME/bin 
$ hdfs dfs -put /home/Hadoop/Pig/Pig_Data/student_data.txt dfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/

Verifying the file

You can use the cat command to verify whether the file has been moved into the HDFS, as shown below.

$ cd $HADOOP_HOME/bin
$ hdfs dfs -cat hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt

Output

You can see the content of the file as shown below.

15/10/01 12:16:55 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop
library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
  
001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai

The Load Operator

You can load data into Apache Pig from the file system (HDFS/ Local) using LOAD operator of Pig Latin.

Syntax

The load statement consists of two parts divided by the “=” operator. On the left-hand side, we need to mention the name of the relation where we want to store the data, and on the right-hand side, we have to define how we store the data. Given below is the syntax of the Load operator.

Relation_name = LOAD 'Input file path' USING function as schema;

Where,

• relation_name − We have to mention the relation in which we want to store the data.

• Input file path − We have to mention the HDFS directory where the file is stored. (In MapReduce mode)

• function − We have to choose a function from the set of load functions provided by Apache Pig (BinStorage, JsonLoader, PigStorage, TextLoader).

• Schema − We have to define the schema of the data. We can define the required schema as follows −

(column1 : data type, column2 : data type, column3 : data type);

Note − We load the data without specifying the schema. In that case, the columns will be addressed as $01, $02, etc… (check).

Example

As an example, let us load the data in student_data.txt in Pig under the schema named Student using the LOAD command.

Start the Pig Grunt Shell

First of all, open the Linux terminal. Start the Pig Grunt shell in MapReduce mode as shown below.

$ Pig –x mapreduce

It will start the Pig Grunt shell as shown below.

15/10/01 12:33:37 INFO pig.ExecTypeProvider: Trying ExecType : LOCAL
15/10/01 12:33:37 INFO pig.ExecTypeProvider: Trying ExecType : MAPREDUCE
15/10/01 12:33:37 INFO pig.ExecTypeProvider: Picked MAPREDUCE as the ExecType

2015-10-01 12:33:38,080 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.Main - Apache Pig version 0.15.0 (r1682971) compiled Jun 01 2015, 11:44:35
2015-10-01 12:33:38,080 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.Main - Logging error messages to: /home/Hadoop/pig_1443683018078.log
2015-10-01 12:33:38,242 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.impl.util.Utils - Default bootup file /home/Hadoop/.pigbootup not found
  
2015-10-01 12:33:39,630 [main]
INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine - Connecting to hadoop file system at: hdfs://localhost:9000
 
grunt>

Execute the Load Statement

Now load the data from the file student_data.txt into Pig by executing the following Pig Latin statement in the Grunt shell.

grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt' 
   USING PigStorage(',')
   as ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, 
   city:chararray );

Following is the description of the above statement.

Note − The load statement will simply load the data into the specified relation in Pig. To verify the execution of the Load statement, you have to use the Diagnostic Operators which are discussed in the next chapters.

Apache Pig - Storing Data

In the previous chapter, we learnt how to load data into Apache Pig. You can store the loaded data in the file system using the store operator. This chapter explains how to store data in Apache Pig using the Store operator.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the Store statement.

STORE Relation_name INTO ' required_directory_path ' [USING function];

Example

Assume we have a file student_data.txt in HDFS with the following content.

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

And we have read it into a relation student using the LOAD operator as shown below.

grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt' 
   USING PigStorage(',')
   as ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, 
   city:chararray );

Now, let us store the relation in the HDFS directory “/pig_Output/” as shown below.

grunt> STORE student INTO ' hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/ ' USING PigStorage (',');

Output

After executing the store statement, you will get the following output. A directory is created with the specified name and the data will be stored in it.

2015-10-05 13:05:05,429 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.
MapReduceLau ncher - 100% complete
2015-10-05 13:05:05,429 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.tools.pigstats.mapreduce.SimplePigStats - 
Script Statistics:
   
HadoopVersion    PigVersion    UserId    StartedAt             FinishedAt             Features 
2.6.0            0.15.0        Hadoop    2015-10-0 13:03:03    2015-10-05 13:05:05    UNKNOWN  
Success!  
Job Stats (time in seconds): 
JobId          Maps    Reduces    MaxMapTime    MinMapTime    AvgMapTime    MedianMapTime    
job_14459_06    1        0           n/a           n/a           n/a           n/a
MaxReduceTime    MinReduceTime    AvgReduceTime    MedianReducetime    Alias    Feature   
     0                 0                0                0             student  MAP_ONLY 
OutPut folder
hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/ 
 
Input(s): Successfully read 0 records from: "hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt"  
Output(s): Successfully stored 0 records in: "hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output"  
Counters:
Total records written : 0
Total bytes written : 0
Spillable Memory Manager spill count : 0 
Total bags proactively spilled: 0
Total records proactively spilled: 0
  
Job DAG: job_1443519499159_0006
  
2015-10-05 13:06:06,192 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine
.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLau ncher - Success!

Verification

You can verify the stored data as shown below.

Step 1

First of all, list out the files in the directory named pig_output using the ls command as shown below.

hdfs dfs -ls 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/'
Found 2 items
rw-r--r-   1 Hadoop supergroup          0 2015-10-05 13:03 hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/_SUCCESS
rw-r--r-   1 Hadoop supergroup        224 2015-10-05 13:03 hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/part-m-00000

You can observe that two files were created after executing the store statement.

Step 2

Using cat command, list the contents of the file named part-m-00000 as shown below.

$ hdfs dfs -cat 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/part-m-00000' 
1,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
2,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
3,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
4,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
6,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai 

Apache Pig - Diagnostic Operators

The load statement will simply load the data into the specified relation in Apache Pig. To verify the execution of the Load statement, you have to use the Diagnostic Operators. Pig Latin provides four different types of diagnostic operators −

• Dump operator
• Describe operator
• Explanation operator
• Illustration operator

In this chapter, we will discuss the Dump operators of Pig Latin.

Dump Operator

The Dump operator is used to run the Pig Latin statements and display the results on the screen. It is generally used for debugging Purpose.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the Dump operator.

grunt> Dump Relation_Name

Example

Assume we have a file student_data.txt in HDFS with the following content.

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

And we have read it into a relation student using the LOAD operator as shown below.

grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt' 
   USING PigStorage(',')
   as ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, 
   city:chararray );

Now, let us print the contents of the relation using the Dump operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump student

Once you execute the above Pig Latin statement, it will start a MapReduce job to read data from HDFS. It will produce the following output.

2015-10-01 15:05:27,642 [main]
INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 
100% complete
2015-10-01 15:05:27,652 [main]
INFO  org.apache.pig.tools.pigstats.mapreduce.SimplePigStats - Script Statistics:   
HadoopVersion  PigVersion  UserId    StartedAt             FinishedAt       Features             
2.6.0          0.15.0      Hadoop  2015-10-01 15:03:11  2015-10-01 05:27     UNKNOWN
                                                
Success!  
Job Stats (time in seconds):
  
JobId           job_14459_0004
Maps                 1  
Reduces              0  
MaxMapTime          n/a    
MinMapTime          n/a
AvgMapTime          n/a 
MedianMapTime       n/a
MaxReduceTime        0
MinReduceTime        0  
AvgReduceTime        0
MedianReducetime     0
Alias             student 
Feature           MAP_ONLY        
Outputs           hdfs://localhost:9000/tmp/temp580182027/tmp757878456,

Input(s): Successfully read 0 records from: "hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/
student_data.txt"
  
Output(s): Successfully stored 0 records in: "hdfs://localhost:9000/tmp/temp580182027/
tmp757878456"  

Counters: Total records written : 0 Total bytes written : 0 Spillable Memory Manager 
spill count : 0Total bags proactively spilled: 0 Total records proactively spilled: 0  

Job DAG: job_1443519499159_0004
  
2015-10-01 15:06:28,403 [main]
INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLau ncher - Success!
2015-10-01 15:06:28,441 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.data.SchemaTupleBackend - 
Key [pig.schematuple] was not set... will not generate code.
2015-10-01 15:06:28,485 [main]
INFO  org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat - Total input paths 
to process : 1
2015-10-01 15:06:28,485 [main]
INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.util.MapRedUtil - Total input paths
to process : 1

(1,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad)
(2,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata)
(3,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi)
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune)
(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar)
(6,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai)

Apache Pig - Describe Operator

The describe operator is used to view the schema of a relation.

Syntax

The syntax of the describe operator is as follows −

grunt> Describe Relation_name

Example

Assume we have a file student_data.txt in HDFS with the following content.

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

And we have read it into a relation student using the LOAD operator as shown below.

grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray );

Now, let us describe the relation named student and verify the schema as shown below.

grunt> describe student;

Output

Once you execute the above Pig Latin statement, it will produce the following output.

grunt> student: { id: int,firstname: chararray,lastname: chararray,phone: chararray,city: chararray }

Apache Pig - Explain Operator

The explain operator is used to display the logical, physical, and MapReduce execution plans of a relation.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the explain operator.

grunt> explain Relation_name;

Example

Assume we have a file student_data.txt in HDFS with the following content.

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

And we have read it into a relation student using the LOAD operator as shown below.

grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray );

Now, let us explain the relation named student using the explain operator as shown below.

grunt> explain student;

Output

It will produce the following output.

$ explain student;

2015-10-05 11:32:43,660 [main]
2015-10-05 11:32:43,660 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.optimizer
.LogicalPlanOptimizer -
{RULES_ENABLED=[AddForEach, ColumnMapKeyPrune, ConstantCalculator,
GroupByConstParallelSetter, LimitOptimizer, LoadTypeCastInserter, MergeFilter, 
MergeForEach, PartitionFilterOptimizer, PredicatePushdownOptimizer,
PushDownForEachFlatten, PushUpFilter, SplitFilter, StreamTypeCastInserter]}  
#-----------------------------------------------
# New Logical Plan: 
#-----------------------------------------------
student: (Name: LOStore Schema:
id#31:int,firstname#32:chararray,lastname#33:chararray,phone#34:chararray,city#
35:chararray)
| 
|---student: (Name: LOForEach Schema:
id#31:int,firstname#32:chararray,lastname#33:chararray,phone#34:chararray,city#
35:chararray)
    |   |
    |   (Name: LOGenerate[false,false,false,false,false] Schema:
id#31:int,firstname#32:chararray,lastname#33:chararray,phone#34:chararray,city#
35:chararray)ColumnPrune:InputUids=[34, 35, 32, 33,
31]ColumnPrune:OutputUids=[34, 35, 32, 33, 31]
    |   |   | 
    |   |   (Name: Cast Type: int Uid: 31) 
    |   |   |     |   |   |---id:(Name: Project Type: bytearray Uid: 31 Input: 0 Column: (*))
    |   |   |     
    |   |   (Name: Cast Type: chararray Uid: 32)
    |   |   | 
    |   |   |---firstname:(Name: Project Type: bytearray Uid: 32 Input: 1
Column: (*))
    |   |   |
    |   |   (Name: Cast Type: chararray Uid: 33)
    |   |   |
    |   |   |---lastname:(Name: Project Type: bytearray Uid: 33 Input: 2
	 Column: (*))
    |   |   | 
    |   |   (Name: Cast Type: chararray Uid: 34)
    |   |   |  
    |   |   |---phone:(Name: Project Type: bytearray Uid: 34 Input: 3 Column:
(*))
    |   |   | 
    |   |   (Name: Cast Type: chararray Uid: 35)
    |   |   |  
    |   |   |---city:(Name: Project Type: bytearray Uid: 35 Input: 4 Column:
(*))
    |   | 
    |   |---(Name: LOInnerLoad[0] Schema: id#31:bytearray)
    |   |  
    |   |---(Name: LOInnerLoad[1] Schema: firstname#32:bytearray)
    |   |
    |   |---(Name: LOInnerLoad[2] Schema: lastname#33:bytearray)
    |   |
    |   |---(Name: LOInnerLoad[3] Schema: phone#34:bytearray)
    |   | 
    |   |---(Name: LOInnerLoad[4] Schema: city#35:bytearray)
    |
    |---student: (Name: LOLoad Schema: 
id#31:bytearray,firstname#32:bytearray,lastname#33:bytearray,phone#34:bytearray
,city#35:bytearray)RequiredFields:null 
#-----------------------------------------------
# Physical Plan: #-----------------------------------------------
student: Store(fakefile:org.apache.pig.builtin.PigStorage) - scope-36
| 
|---student: New For Each(false,false,false,false,false)[bag] - scope-35
    |   |
    |   Cast[int] - scope-21
    |   |
    |   |---Project[bytearray][0] - scope-20
    |   |  
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-24
    |   |
    |   |---Project[bytearray][1] - scope-23
    |   | 
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-27
    |   |  
    |   |---Project[bytearray][2] - scope-26 
    |   |  
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-30 
    |   |  
    |   |---Project[bytearray][3] - scope-29
    |   |
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-33
    |   | 
    |   |---Project[bytearray][4] - scope-32
    | 
    |---student: Load(hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt:PigStorage(',')) - scope19
2015-10-05 11:32:43,682 [main]
INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MRCompiler - 
File concatenation threshold: 100 optimistic? false
2015-10-05 11:32:43,684 [main]
INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MultiQueryOp timizer - 
MR plan size before optimization: 1 2015-10-05 11:32:43,685 [main]
INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.
MultiQueryOp timizer - MR plan size after optimization: 1 
#--------------------------------------------------
# Map Reduce Plan                                   
#--------------------------------------------------
MapReduce node scope-37
Map Plan
student: Store(fakefile:org.apache.pig.builtin.PigStorage) - scope-36
|
|---student: New For Each(false,false,false,false,false)[bag] - scope-35
    |   |
    |   Cast[int] - scope-21 
    |   |
    |   |---Project[bytearray][0] - scope-20
    |   |
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-24
    |   |
    |   |---Project[bytearray][1] - scope-23
    |   |
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-27
    |   | 
    |   |---Project[bytearray][2] - scope-26 
    |   | 
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-30 
    |   |  
    |   |---Project[bytearray][3] - scope-29 
    |   | 
    |   Cast[chararray] - scope-33
    |   | 
    |   |---Project[bytearray][4] - scope-32 
    |  
    |---student:
Load(hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt:PigStorage(',')) - scope
19-------- Global sort: false
 ---------------- 

Apache Pig - Illustrate Operator

The illustrate operator gives you the step-by-step execution of a sequence of statements.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the illustrate operator.

grunt> illustrate Relation_name;

Example

Assume we have a file student_data.txt in HDFS with the following content.

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata 
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

And we have read it into a relation student using the LOAD operator as shown below.

grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray );

Now, let us illustrate the relation named student as shown below.

grunt> illustrate student;

Output

On executing the above statement, you will get the following output.

grunt> illustrate student;

INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapOnly$M ap - Aliases
being processed per job phase (AliasName[line,offset]): M: student[1,10] C:  R:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|student | id:int | firstname:chararray | lastname:chararray | phone:chararray | city:chararray |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
|        | 002    | siddarth            | Battacharya        | 9848022338      | Kolkata        |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache Pig - Group Operator

The GROUP operator is used to group the data in one or more relations. It collects the data having the same key.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the group operator.

grunt> Group_data = GROUP Relation_name BY age;

Example

Assume that we have a file named student_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

And we have loaded this file into Apache Pig with the relation name student_details as shown below.

grunt> student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray);

Now, let us group the records/tuples in the relation by age as shown below.

grunt> group_data = GROUP student_details by age;

Verification

Verify the relation group_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump group_data;

Output

Then you will get output displaying the contents of the relation named group_data as shown below. Here you can observe that the resulting schema has two columns −

• One is age, by which we have grouped the relation.

• The other is a bag, which contains the group of tuples, student records with the respective age.

(21,{(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune),(1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hydera bad)})
(22,{(3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi),(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,984802233 8,Kolkata)})
(23,{(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai),(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336 ,Bhuwaneshwar)})
(24,{(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai),(7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334, trivendram)})

You can see the schema of the table after grouping the data using the describe command as shown below.

grunt> Describe group_data;
  
group_data: {group: int,student_details: {(id: int,firstname: chararray,
               lastname: chararray,age: int,phone: chararray,city: chararray)}}

In the same way, you can get the sample illustration of the schema using the illustrate command as shown below.

$ Illustrate group_data;

It will produce the following output −

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
|group_data|  group:int | student_details:bag{:tuple(id:int,firstname:chararray,lastname:chararray,age:int,phone:chararray,city:chararray)}|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
|          |     21     | { 4, Preethi, Agarwal, 21, 9848022330, Pune), (1, Rajiv, Reddy, 21, 9848022337, Hyderabad)}| 
|          |     2      | {(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata),(003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi)}| 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Grouping by Multiple Columns

Let us group the relation by age and city as shown below.

grunt> group_multiple = GROUP student_details by (age, city);

You can verify the content of the relation named group_multiple using the Dump operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump group_multiple; 
  
((21,Pune),{(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune)})
((21,Hyderabad),{(1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad)})
((22,Delhi),{(3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi)})
((22,Kolkata),{(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata)})
((23,Chennai),{(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai)})
((23,Bhuwaneshwar),{(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar)})
((24,Chennai),{(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai)})
(24,trivendram),{(7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram)})

Group All

You can group a relation by all the columns as shown below.

grunt> group_all = GROUP student_details All;

Now, verify the content of the relation group_all as shown below.

grunt> Dump group_all;  
  
(all,{(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai),(7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334 ,trivendram), 
(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai),(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuw aneshwar), 
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune),(3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi), 
(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata),(1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyd erabad)})

Apache Pig - Cogroup Operator

The COGROUP operator works more or less in the same way as the GROUP operator. The only difference between the two operators is that the group operator is normally used with one relation, while the cogroup operator is used in statements involving two or more relations.

Grouping Two Relations using Cogroup

Assume that we have two files namely student_details.txt and employee_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

employee_details.txt

001,Robin,22,newyork 
002,BOB,23,Kolkata 
003,Maya,23,Tokyo 
004,Sara,25,London 
005,David,23,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Maggy,22,Chennai

And we have loaded these files into Pig with the relation names student_details and employee_details respectively, as shown below.

grunt> student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray); 
  
grunt> employee_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/employee_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, name:chararray, age:int, city:chararray);

Now, let us group the records/tuples of the relations student_details and employee_details with the key age, as shown below.

grunt> cogroup_data = COGROUP student_details by age, employee_details by age;

Verification

Verify the relation cogroup_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump cogroup_data;

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation named cogroup_data as shown below.

(21,{(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune), (1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad)}, 
   {    })  
(22,{ (3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi), (2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata) },  
   { (6,Maggy,22,Chennai),(1,Robin,22,newyork) })  
(23,{(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai),(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336 ,Bhuwaneshwar)}, 
   {(5,David,23,Bhuwaneshwar),(3,Maya,23,Tokyo),(2,BOB,23,Kolkata)}) 
(24,{(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai),(7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334, trivendram)}, 
   { })  
(25,{   }, 
   {(4,Sara,25,London)})

The cogroup operator groups the tuples from each relation according to age where each group depicts a particular age value.

For example, if we consider the 1st tuple of the result, it is grouped by age 21. And it contains two bags −

• the first bag holds all the tuples from the first relation (student_details in this case) having age 21, and

• the second bag contains all the tuples from the second relation (employee_details in this case) having age 21.

In case a relation doesn’t have tuples having the age value 21, it returns an empty bag.

Apache Pig - Join Operator

The JOIN operator is used to combine records from two or more relations. While performing a join operation, we declare one (or a group of) tuple(s) from each relation, as keys. When these keys match, the two particular tuples are matched, else the records are dropped. Joins can be of the following types −

• Self-join
• Inner-join
• Outer-join − left join, right join, and full join

This chapter explains with examples how to use the join operator in Pig Latin. Assume that we have two files namely customers.txt and orders.txt in the /pig_data/ directory of HDFS as shown below.

customers.txt

1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000.00
2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500.00
3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000.00
4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500.00 
5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500.00
6,Komal,22,MP,4500.00
7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000.00

orders.txt

102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000
100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500
101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560
103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060

And we have loaded these two files into Pig with the relations customers and orders as shown below.

grunt> customers = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/customers.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, name:chararray, age:int, address:chararray, salary:int);
  
grunt> orders = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/orders.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (oid:int, date:chararray, customer_id:int, amount:int);

Let us now perform various Join operations on these two relations.

Self - join

Self-join is used to join a table with itself as if the table were two relations, temporarily renaming at least one relation.

Generally, in Apache Pig, to perform self-join, we will load the same data multiple times, under different aliases (names). Therefore let us load the contents of the file customers.txt as two tables as shown below.

grunt> customers1 = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/customers.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, name:chararray, age:int, address:chararray, salary:int);
  
grunt> customers2 = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/customers.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, name:chararray, age:int, address:chararray, salary:int); 

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of performing self-join operation using the JOIN operator.

grunt> Relation3_name = JOIN Relation1_name BY key, Relation2_name BY key ;

Example

Let us perform self-join operation on the relation customers, by joining the two relations customers1 and customers2 as shown below.

grunt> customers3 = JOIN customers1 BY id, customers2 BY id;

Verification

Verify the relation customers3 using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump customers3;

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation customers.

(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000)
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000)
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500)
(5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500,5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500)
(6,Komal,22,MP,4500,6,Komal,22,MP,4500)
(7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000,7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000)

Inner Join

Inner Join is used quite frequently; it is also referred to as equijoin. An inner join returns rows when there is a match in both tables.

It creates a new relation by combining column values of two relations (say A and B) based upon the join-predicate. The query compares each row of A with each row of B to find all pairs of rows which satisfy the join-predicate. When the join-predicate is satisfied, the column values for each matched pair of rows of A and B are combined into a result row.

Syntax

Here is the syntax of performing inner join operation using the JOIN operator.

grunt> result = JOIN relation1 BY columnname, relation2 BY columnname;

Example

Let us perform inner join operation on the two relations customers and orders as shown below.

grunt> coustomer_orders = JOIN customers BY id, orders BY customer_id;

Verification

Verify the relation coustomer_orders using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump coustomer_orders;

Output

You will get the following output that will the contents of the relation named coustomer_orders.

(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000)
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060)

Note −

Outer Join: Unlike inner join, outer join returns all the rows from at least one of the relations. An outer join operation is carried out in three ways −

• Left outer join
• Right outer join
• Full outer join

Left Outer Join

The left outer Join operation returns all rows from the left table, even if there are no matches in the right relation.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of performing left outer join operation using the JOIN operator.

grunt> Relation3_name = JOIN Relation1_name BY id LEFT OUTER, Relation2_name BY customer_id;

Example

Let us perform left outer join operation on the two relations customers and orders as shown below.

grunt> outer_left = JOIN customers BY id LEFT OUTER, orders BY customer_id;

Verification

Verify the relation outer_left using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump outer_left;

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation outer_left.

(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,,,,)
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000)
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060)
(5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500,,,,)
(6,Komal,22,MP,4500,,,,)
(7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000,,,,) 

Right Outer Join

The right outer join operation returns all rows from the right table, even if there are no matches in the left table.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of performing right outer join operation using the JOIN operator.

grunt> outer_right = JOIN customers BY id RIGHT, orders BY customer_id;

Example

Let us perform right outer join operation on the two relations customers and orders as shown below.

grunt> outer_right = JOIN customers BY id RIGHT, orders BY customer_id;

Verification

Verify the relation outer_right using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump outer_right

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation outer_right.

(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000)
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060)

Full Outer Join

The full outer join operation returns rows when there is a match in one of the relations.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of performing full outer join using the JOIN operator.

grunt> outer_full = JOIN customers BY id FULL OUTER, orders BY customer_id;

Example

Let us perform full outer join operation on the two relations customers and orders as shown below.

grunt> outer_full = JOIN customers BY id FULL OUTER, orders BY customer_id;

Verification

Verify the relation outer_full using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grun> Dump outer_full; 

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation outer_full.

(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,,,,)
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500)
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000)
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060)
(5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500,,,,)
(6,Komal,22,MP,4500,,,,)
(7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000,,,,)

Using Multiple Keys

We can perform JOIN operation using multiple keys.

Syntax

Here is how you can perform a JOIN operation on two tables using multiple keys.

grunt> Relation3_name = JOIN Relation2_name BY (key1, key2), Relation3_name BY (key1, key2);

Assume that we have two files namely employee.txt and employee_contact.txt in the /pig_data/ directory of HDFS as shown below.

employee.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,programmer,003
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,programmer,003
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,programmer,003
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,programmer,003
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,programmer,003
006,Archana,Mishra,23,programmer,003
007,Komal,Nayak,24,teamlead,002
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,manager,001

employee_contact.txt

001,9848022337,Rajiv@gmail.com,Hyderabad,003
002,9848022338,siddarth@gmail.com,Kolkata,003
003,9848022339,Rajesh@gmail.com,Delhi,003
004,9848022330,Preethi@gmail.com,Pune,003
005,9848022336,Trupthi@gmail.com,Bhuwaneshwar,003
006,9848022335,Archana@gmail.com,Chennai,003
007,9848022334,Komal@gmail.com,trivendram,002
008,9848022333,Bharathi@gmail.com,Chennai,001

And we have loaded these two files into Pig with relations employee and employee_contact as shown below.

grunt> employee = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/employee.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, age:int, designation:chararray, jobid:int);
  
grunt> employee_contact = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/employee_contact.txt' USING PigStorage(',') 
   as (id:int, phone:chararray, email:chararray, city:chararray, jobid:int);

Now, let us join the contents of these two relations using the JOIN operator as shown below.

grunt> emp = JOIN employee BY (id,jobid), employee_contact BY (id,jobid);

Verification

Verify the relation emp using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump emp; 

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation named emp as shown below.

(1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,programmer,113,1,9848022337,Rajiv@gmail.com,Hyderabad,113)
(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,programmer,113,2,9848022338,siddarth@gmail.com,Kolka ta,113)  
(3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,programmer,113,3,9848022339,Rajesh@gmail.com,Delhi,113)  
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,programmer,113,4,9848022330,Preethi@gmail.com,Pune,113)  
(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,programmer,113,5,9848022336,Trupthi@gmail.com,Bhuwaneshw ar,113)  
(6,Archana,Mishra,23,programmer,113,6,9848022335,Archana@gmail.com,Chennai,113)  
(7,Komal,Nayak,24,teamlead,112,7,9848022334,Komal@gmail.com,trivendram,112)  
(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,manager,111,8,9848022333,Bharathi@gmail.com,Chennai,111)

Apache Pig - Cross Operator

The CROSS operator computes the cross-product of two or more relations. This chapter explains with example how to use the cross operator in Pig Latin.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the CROSS operator.

grunt> Relation3_name = CROSS Relation1_name, Relation2_name;

Example

Assume that we have two files namely customers.txt and orders.txt in the /pig_data/ directory of HDFS as shown below.

customers.txt

1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000.00
2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500.00
3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000.00
4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500.00
5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500.00
6,Komal,22,MP,4500.00
7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000.00

orders.txt

102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000
100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500
101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560
103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060

And we have loaded these two files into Pig with the relations customers and orders as shown below.

grunt> customers = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/customers.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, name:chararray, age:int, address:chararray, salary:int);
  
grunt> orders = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/orders.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (oid:int, date:chararray, customer_id:int, amount:int);

Let us now get the cross-product of these two relations using the cross operator on these two relations as shown below.

grunt> cross_data = CROSS customers, orders;

Verification

Verify the relation cross_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump cross_data;

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation cross_data.

(7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(7,Muffy,24,Indore,10000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000) 
(6,Komal,22,MP,4500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(6,Komal,22,MP,4500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(6,Komal,22,MP,4500,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(6,Komal,22,MP,4500,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000) 
(5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(5,Hardik,27,Bhopal,8500,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000) 
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,101,2009-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000)-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(4,Chaitali,25,Mumbai,6500,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000) 
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(3,kaushik,23,Kota,2000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000) 
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500)
(2,Khilan,25,Delhi,1500,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,103,2008-05-20 00:00:00,4,2060) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,101,2009-11-20 00:00:00,2,1560) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,100,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,1500) 
(1,Ramesh,32,Ahmedabad,2000,102,2009-10-08 00:00:00,3,3000)  

Apache Pig - Union Operator

The UNION operator of Pig Latin is used to merge the content of two relations. To perform UNION operation on two relations, their columns and domains must be identical.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the UNION operator.

grunt> Relation_name3 = UNION Relation_name1, Relation_name2;

Example

Assume that we have two files namely student_data1.txt and student_data2.txt in the /pig_data/ directory of HDFS as shown below.

Student_data1.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

Student_data2.txt

7,Komal,Nayak,9848022334,trivendram.
8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,9848022333,Chennai.

And we have loaded these two files into Pig with the relations student1 and student2 as shown below.

grunt> student1 = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data1.txt' USING PigStorage(',') 
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray); 
 
grunt> student2 = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data2.txt' USING PigStorage(',') 
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray);

Let us now merge the contents of these two relations using the UNION operator as shown below.

grunt> student = UNION student1, student2;

Verification

Verify the relation student using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump student; 

Output

It will display the following output, displaying the contents of the relation student.

(1,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad) (2,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata)
(3,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi)
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune) 
(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar)
(6,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai) 
(7,Komal,Nayak,9848022334,trivendram) 
(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,9848022333,Chennai)

Apache Pig - Split Operator

The SPLIT operator is used to split a relation into two or more relations.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the SPLIT operator.

grunt> SPLIT Relation1_name INTO Relation2_name IF (condition1), Relation2_name (condition2),

Example

Assume that we have a file named student_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi 
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai 
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram 
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

And we have loaded this file into Pig with the relation name student_details as shown below.

student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray); 

Let us now split the relation into two, one listing the employees of age less than 23, and the other listing the employees having the age between 22 and 25.

SPLIT student_details into student_details1 if age<23, student_details2 if (22<age and age>25);

Verification

Verify the relations student_details1 and student_details2 using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump student_details1;  

grunt> Dump student_details2; 

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relations student_details1 and student_details2 respectively.

grunt> Dump student_details1; 
(1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad) 
(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata)
(3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi) 
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune)
  
grunt> Dump student_details2; 
(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar) 
(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai) 
(7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram) 
(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai)

Apache Pig - Filter Operator

The FILTER operator is used to select the required tuples from a relation based on a condition.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the FILTER operator.

grunt> Relation2_name = FILTER Relation1_name BY (condition);

Example

Assume that we have a file named student_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi 
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai 
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram 
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

And we have loaded this file into Pig with the relation name student_details as shown below.

grunt> student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray);

Let us now use the Filter operator to get the details of the students who belong to the city Chennai.

filter_data = FILTER student_details BY city == 'Chennai';

Verification

Verify the relation filter_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump filter_data;

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation filter_data as follows.

(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai)
(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai)

Apache Pig - Distinct Operator

The DISTINCT operator is used to remove redundant (duplicate) tuples from a relation.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the DISTINCT operator.

grunt> Relation_name2 = DISTINCT Relatin_name1;

Example

Assume that we have a file named student_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata 
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata 
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi 
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi 
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai 
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai

And we have loaded this file into Pig with the relation name student_details as shown below.

grunt> student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',') 
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray);

Let us now remove the redundant (duplicate) tuples from the relation named student_details using the DISTINCT operator, and store it as another relation named distinct_data as shown below.

grunt> distinct_data = DISTINCT student_details;

Verification

Verify the relation distinct_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump distinct_data;

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation distinct_data as follows.

(1,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad)
(2,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata) 
(3,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi) 
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune) 
(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar)
(6,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai)

Apache Pig - Foreach Operator

The FOREACH operator is used to generate specified data transformations based on the column data.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of FOREACH operator.

grunt> Relation_name2 = FOREACH Relatin_name1 GENERATE (required data);

Example

Assume that we have a file named student_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi 
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai 
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram 
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

And we have loaded this file into Pig with the relation name student_details as shown below.

grunt> student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray,age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray);

Let us now get the id, age, and city values of each student from the relation student_details and store it into another relation named foreach_data using the foreach operator as shown below.

grunt> foreach_data = FOREACH student_details GENERATE id,age,city;

Verification

Verify the relation foreach_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump foreach_data;

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation foreach_data.

(1,21,Hyderabad)
(2,22,Kolkata)
(3,22,Delhi)
(4,21,Pune) 
(5,23,Bhuwaneshwar)
(6,23,Chennai) 
(7,24,trivendram)
(8,24,Chennai) 

Apache Pig - Order By

The ORDER BY operator is used to display the contents of a relation in a sorted order based on one or more fields.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the ORDER BY operator.

grunt> Relation_name2 = ORDER Relatin_name1 BY (ASC|DESC);

Example

Assume that we have a file named student_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi 
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai 
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram 
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

And we have loaded this file into Pig with the relation name student_details as shown below.

grunt> student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray,age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray);

Let us now sort the relation in a descending order based on the age of the student and store it into another relation named order_by_data using the ORDER BY operator as shown below.

grunt> order_by_data = ORDER student_details BY age DESC;

Verification

Verify the relation order_by_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump order_by_data; 

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation order_by_data.

(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai)
(7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram)
(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai) 
(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar)
(3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi) 
(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata)
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune) 
(1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad)

Apache Pig - Limit Operator

The LIMIT operator is used to get a limited number of tuples from a relation.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the LIMIT operator.

grunt> Result = LIMIT Relation_name required number of tuples;

Example

Assume that we have a file named student_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi 
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai 
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram 
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

And we have loaded this file into Pig with the relation name student_details as shown below.

grunt> student_details = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray,age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray);

Now, let’s sort the relation in descending order based on the age of the student and store it into another relation named limit_data using the ORDER BY operator as shown below.

grunt> limit_data = LIMIT student_details 4; 

Verification

Verify the relation limit_data using the DUMP operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump limit_data; 

Output

It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation limit_data as follows.

(1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad) 
(2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata) 
(3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi) 
(4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune) 

Apache Pig - Eval Functions

Apache Pig provides various built-in functions namely eval, load, store, math, string, bag and tuple functions.

Eval Functions

Given below is the list of eval functions provided by Apache Pig.

Apache Pig - Load & Store Functions

The Load and Store functions in Apache Pig are used to determine how the data goes ad comes out of Pig. These functions are used with the load and store operators. Given below is the list of load and store functions available in Pig.

Apache Pig - Bag & Tuple Functions

Given below is the list of Bag and Tuple functions.

Apache Pig - String Functions

We have the following String functions in Apache Pig.

Apache Pig - Date-time Functions

Apache Pig provides the following Date and Time functions −

Apache Pig - Math Functions

We have the following Math functions in Apache Pig −

Apache Pig - User Defined Functions

In addition to the built-in functions, Apache Pig provides extensive support for User Defined Functions (UDF’s). Using these UDF’s, we can define our own functions and use them. The UDF support is provided in six programming languages, namely, Java, Jython, Python, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy.

For writing UDF’s, complete support is provided in Java and limited support is provided in all the remaining languages. Using Java, you can write UDF’s involving all parts of the processing like data load/store, column transformation, and aggregation. Since Apache Pig has been written in Java, the UDF’s written using Java language work efficiently compared to other languages.

In Apache Pig, we also have a Java repository for UDF’s named Piggybank. Using Piggybank, we can access Java UDF’s written by other users, and contribute our own UDF’s.

Types of UDF’s in Java

While writing UDF’s using Java, we can create and use the following three types of functions −

• Filter Functions − The filter functions are used as conditions in filter statements. These functions accept a Pig value as input and return a Boolean value.

• Eval Functions − The Eval functions are used in FOREACH-GENERATE statements. These functions accept a Pig value as input and return a Pig result.

• Algebraic Functions − The Algebraic functions act on inner bags in a FOREACHGENERATE statement. These functions are used to perform full MapReduce operations on an inner bag.

Writing UDF’s using Java

To write a UDF using Java, we have to integrate the jar file Pig-0.15.0.jar. In this section, we discuss how to write a sample UDF using Eclipse. Before proceeding further, make sure you have installed Eclipse and Maven in your system.

Follow the steps given below to write a UDF function −

• Open Eclipse and create a new project (say myproject).

• Convert the newly created project into a Maven project.

• Copy the following content in the pom.xml. This file contains the Maven dependencies for Apache Pig and Hadoop-core jar files.

<project xmlns = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0http://maven.apache .org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> 
	
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> 
   <groupId>Pig_Udf</groupId> 
   <artifactId>Pig_Udf</artifactId> 
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	
   <build>    
      <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>    
      <plugins>      
         <plugin>        
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>        
            <version>3.3</version>        
            <configuration>          
               <source>1.7</source>          
               <target>1.7</target>        
            </configuration>      
         </plugin>    
      </plugins>  
   </build>
	
   <dependencies> 
	
      <dependency>            
         <groupId>org.apache.pig</groupId>            
         <artifactId>pig</artifactId>            
         <version>0.15.0</version>     
      </dependency> 
		
      <dependency>        
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>            
         <artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>            
         <version>0.20.2</version>     
      </dependency> 
      
   </dependencies>  
	
</project>

• Save the file and refresh it. In the Maven Dependencies section, you can find the downloaded jar files.

• Create a new class file with name Sample_Eval and copy the following content in it.

import java.io.IOException; 
import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc; 
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple; 
 
import java.io.IOException; 
import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc; 
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;

public class Sample_Eval extends EvalFunc<String>{ 

   public String exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {   
      if (input == null || input.size() == 0)      
      return null;      
      String str = (String)input.get(0);      
      return str.toUpperCase();  
   } 
}

While writing UDF’s, it is mandatory to inherit the EvalFunc class and provide implementation to exec() function. Within this function, the code required for the UDF is written. In the above example, we have return the code to convert the contents of the given column to uppercase.

• After compiling the class without errors, right-click on the Sample_Eval.java file. It gives you a menu. Select export as shown in the following screenshot.

• On clicking export, you will get the following window. Click on JAR file.

• Proceed further by clicking Next> button. You will get another window where you need to enter the path in the local file system, where you need to store the jar file.

• Finally click the Finish button. In the specified folder, a Jar file sample_udf.jar is created. This jar file contains the UDF written in Java.

Using the UDF

After writing the UDF and generating the Jar file, follow the steps given below −

Step 1: Registering the Jar file

After writing UDF (in Java) we have to register the Jar file that contain the UDF using the Register operator. By registering the Jar file, users can intimate the location of the UDF to Apache Pig.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the Register operator.

REGISTER path; 

Example

As an example let us register the sample_udf.jar created earlier in this chapter.

Start Apache Pig in local mode and register the jar file sample_udf.jar as shown below.

$cd PIG_HOME/bin 
$./pig –x local 

REGISTER '/$PIG_HOME/sample_udf.jar'

Note − assume the Jar file in the path − /$PIG_HOME/sample_udf.jar

Step 2: Defining Alias

After registering the UDF we can define an alias to it using the Define operator.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the Define operator.

DEFINE alias {function | [`command` [input] [output] [ship] [cache] [stderr] ] }; 

Example

Define the alias for sample_eval as shown below.

DEFINE sample_eval sample_eval();

Step 3: Using the UDF

After defining the alias you can use the UDF same as the built-in functions. Suppose there is a file named emp_data in the HDFS /Pig_Data/ directory with the following content.

001,Robin,22,newyork
002,BOB,23,Kolkata
003,Maya,23,Tokyo
004,Sara,25,London 
005,David,23,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Maggy,22,Chennai
007,Robert,22,newyork
008,Syam,23,Kolkata
009,Mary,25,Tokyo
010,Saran,25,London 
011,Stacy,25,Bhuwaneshwar 
012,Kelly,22,Chennai

And assume we have loaded this file into Pig as shown below.

grunt> emp_data = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/emp1.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, name:chararray, age:int, city:chararray);

Let us now convert the names of the employees in to upper case using the UDF sample_eval.

grunt> Upper_case = FOREACH emp_data GENERATE sample_eval(name);

Verify the contents of the relation Upper_case as shown below.

grunt> Dump Upper_case;
  
(ROBIN)
(BOB)
(MAYA)
(SARA)
(DAVID)
(MAGGY)
(ROBERT)
(SYAM)
(MARY)
(SARAN)
(STACY)
(KELLY)

Apache Pig - Running Scripts

Here in this chapter, we will see how how to run Apache Pig scripts in batch mode.

Comments in Pig Script

While writing a script in a file, we can include comments in it as shown below.

Multi-line comments

We will begin the multi-line comments with '/*', end them with '*/'.

/* These are the multi-line comments 
  In the pig script */ 

Single –line comments

We will begin the single-line comments with '--'.

--we can write single line comments like this.

Executing Pig Script in Batch mode

While executing Apache Pig statements in batch mode, follow the steps given below.

Step 1

Write all the required Pig Latin statements in a single file. We can write all the Pig Latin statements and commands in a single file and save it as .pig file.

Step 2

Execute the Apache Pig script. You can execute the Pig script from the shell (Linux) as shown below.

You can execute it from the Grunt shell as well using the exec command as shown below.

grunt> exec /sample_script.pig

Executing a Pig Script from HDFS

We can also execute a Pig script that resides in the HDFS. Suppose there is a Pig script with the name Sample_script.pig in the HDFS directory named /pig_data/. We can execute it as shown below.

$ pig -x mapreduce hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/Sample_script.pig 

Example

Assume we have a file student_details.txt in HDFS with the following content.

student_details.txt

001,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad 
002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi 
004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune 
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai 
007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram 
008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai

We also have a sample script with the name sample_script.pig, in the same HDFS directory. This file contains statements performing operations and transformations on the student relation, as shown below.

student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, city:chararray);
	
student_order = ORDER student BY age DESC;
  
student_limit = LIMIT student_order 4;
  
Dump student_limit;

• The first statement of the script will load the data in the file named student_details.txt as a relation named student.

• The second statement of the script will arrange the tuples of the relation in descending order, based on age, and store it as student_order.

• The third statement of the script will store the first 4 tuples of student_order as student_limit.

• Finally the fourth statement will dump the content of the relation student_limit.

Let us now execute the sample_script.pig as shown below.

$./pig -x mapreduce hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/sample_script.pig

Apache Pig gets executed and gives you the output with the following content.

(7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram)
(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai) 
(5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar) 
(6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai)
2015-10-19 10:31:27,446 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.Main - Pig script completed in 12
minutes, 32 seconds and 751 milliseconds (752751 ms)