Pig 0.14 Installation & Configuration

Apache Pig is a platform which is used to analyze larger sets of data representing them as data flows. Apache Pig is a high-level platform for creating programs that run on Apache Hadoop. Pig's language layer currently consists of a textual language called Pig Latin.

Prerequisites

Java
Hadoop

Download Pig Jar file

Download Pig 0.14 using below command on /usr/local directory.

$sudo wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/pig/pig-0.14.0/pig-0.14.0.tar.gz /usr/local

Unpack pig-0.14.0.tar.gz file

$ cd /usr/local $ sudo tar -xvf pig-0.14.0.tar.gz

Rename pig-0.14.0 folder to pig

$ sudo mv pig-0.14.0 pig

Setting up environment for Pig

Edit ~/.bashrc file for set up the Hive environment by appending the following lines

$ sudo nano ~/.bashrc

export PIG_HOME=/usr/local/pig export PATH=$PIG_HOME/bin:$PATH

Reload the configuration file ~/.bashrc with the following command.

$ source ~/.bashrc

Change the ownership and permissions of the folger /usr/local/pig

$ sudo chown -R hdfs:hdfs /usr/local/pig $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/pig

Check the version

Check the version of pig.

$ pig --version Apache Pig version 0.14.0 (r1640057) compiled Nov 16 2014, 18:02:05

Apache Pig Execution Modes

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

$ pig -x local Grunt>

MapReduce Mode

$ pig -x mapreduce Grunt>

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