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Mastering Hadoop

Mastering Hadoop

By : Karanth
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Mastering Hadoop

Mastering Hadoop

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By: Karanth

Overview of this book

Do you want to broaden your Hadoop skill set and take your knowledge to the next level? Do you wish to enhance your knowledge of Hadoop to solve challenging data processing problems? Are your Hadoop jobs, Pig scripts, or Hive queries not working as fast as you intend? Are you looking to understand the benefits of upgrading Hadoop? If the answer is yes to any of these, this book is for you. It assumes novice-level familiarity with Hadoop.
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User-defined functions


User-defined functions or UDFs, are functions that can be implemented by the developer to extend the functionality of Pig and add custom processing. These functions can be called in almost all Pig operators. UDFs are written in Java. From Pig 0.8 onwards, Python UDFs are supported. In the latest version of Pig, in addition to Python and Java, UDFs can be written in Jython, JavaScript, Ruby, and Groovy.

Other than Java, the rest of the language bindings do not support all interfaces of Pig. For example, the load and store interfaces are not supported by the other language bindings. In this book, we will use Java to build and illustrate the power of UDFs.

There is a repository of Java UDFs called piggy bank. This is a public repository where you can take advantage of UDFs written by others and contribute your own UDFs to the community.

Before using a UDF in Pig, it is necessary to register the JAR file in the Pig script. The registration is done using the REGISTER command...

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