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Apache Pig - MAX()
The Pig Latin MAX() function is used to calculate the highest value for a column (numeric values or chararrays) in a single-column bag. While calculating the maximum value, the Max() function ignores the NULL values.
Note −
To get the global maximum value, we need to perform a Group All operation, and calculate the maximum value using the MAX() function.
To get the maximum value of a group, we need to group it using the Group By operator and proceed with the maximum function.
Syntax
Given below is the syntax of the Max() function.
grunt> Max(expression)
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,89 002,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Kolkata,78 003,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi,90 004,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune,93 005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar,75 006,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai,87 007,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022334,trivendram,83 008,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai,72
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, gpa:int);
Calculating the Maximum GPA
We can use the built-in function MAX() (case-sensitive) to calculate the maximum value from a set of given numerical values. Let us group the relation student_details using the Group All operator, and store the result in the relation named student_group_all as shown below.
grunt> student_group_all = Group student_details All;
This will produce a relation as shown below.
grunt> Dump student_group_all; (all,{(8,Bharathi,Nambiayar,24,9848022333,Chennai,72), (7,Komal,Nayak,24,9848022 334,trivendram,83), (6,Archana,Mishra,23,9848022335,Chennai,87), (5,Trupthi,Mohan thy,23,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar,75), (4,Preethi,Agarwal,21,9848022330,Pune,93), (3,Rajesh,Khanna,22,9848022339,Delhi,90), (2,siddarth,Battacharya,22,9848022338,Ko lkata,78), (1,Rajiv,Reddy,21,9848022337,Hyderabad,89)})
Let us now calculate the global maximum of GPA, i.e., maximum among the GPA values of all the students using the MAX() function as shown below.
grunt> student_gpa_max = foreach student_group_all Generate (student_details.firstname, student_details.gpa), MAX(student_details.gpa);
Verification
Verify the relation student_gpa_max using the DUMP operator as shown below.
grunt> Dump student_gpa_max;
Output
It will produce the following output, displaying the contents of the relation student_gpa_max.
(({(Bharathi),(Komal),(Archana),(Trupthi),(Preethi),(Rajesh),(siddarth),(Rajiv) } , { (72) , (83) , (87) , (75) , (93) , (90) , (78) , (89) }) ,93)