Description

This guide is an ideal learning tool and reference for Apache Pig, the open source engine for executing parallel data flows on Hadoop. With Pig, you can batch-process data without having to create a full-fledged application—making it easy for you to experiment with new datasets. This book shows you how.

Reviews

On Aug 12 Levon Lloyd wrote: Review of Programming Pig by Alan Gates
Programming Pig, the early release version, is a decent introduction to using Pig to process large scale data sets. As an early release version, it has some rough edges that will undoubtably be smoothed over before the final release, but some of the explanations of Pig's more complex areas don't have a satisfactory, simple explanation. Full Review  >

Rating: 3.0