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Apache Pig

A platform for analyzing large data sets with a high-level language and infrastructure for

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Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets, built around Pig Latin, a high-level textual language for expressing data analysis programs. It addresses the need to write and maintain complex data transformations without handling the underlying distributed execution details. Pig programs are structured as data flow sequences, which makes them amenable to parallelization and allows the system to optimize their execution automatically.

Pig Latin provides a query algebra for operations such as merging data sets, filtering them, and applying functions to records or groups of records. Users can create their own functions for special-purpose processing. The infrastructure layer includes a compiler that produces sequences of Map-Reduce programs, executed on a Hadoop cluster. The current release supports Hadoop 3, Tez 0.10, Hive 3, Spark 3, HBase 2 and Python 3.

Apache Pig is an open source project released under the Apache 2.0 License, developed as a volunteer effort under the Apache Software Foundation. It is intended for users working with large-scale data analysis on distributed clusters.

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