Beginning Apache Pig

Balaswamy Vaddeman, Thinker, Blogger, Serious and Self-motivated Big data evangelist with 9 years of experience in IT and 4 years of experience in Big data space. My Big data experience covers multiple areas like delivery of analytical applications, product development, consulting, training, book reviews, hackathons and mentoring and helping people on forums. I have proved myself while delivering analytical applications in retail, banking and finance domain in 3 aspects (Development, Administration and Architecture) of Hadoop related technologies. At Startup Company, I had developed a Hadoop based product that was used for delivering of analytical applications without writing code. In 2013 I had won Hadoop Hackathon event for Hyderabad conducted by Cloudwick technologies. Being top contributor at stackoverflow.com, I helped many people on big data at multiple websites like stackoverflow.com and quora.com. With so much passion on big data I went ahead as independenttrainer and consultant to train hundreds of people and to set big data teams in couple of companies.

Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 - Data types.- Chapter 3 - Grunt.- Chapter 4 - Introduction to Pig Latin.- Chapter 5 - Joins and Functions.- Chapter 6 - Pig Latin using Oozie.- Chapter 7 - Introduction to HCatalog.- Chapter 8 - Submitting Pig jobs using Hue.- Chapter 9 - Role of Pig in Apache Falcon.- Chapter 10 - Macros.- Chapter 11 - User defined Functions.- Chapter 12 - Writing your own eval and Filter Functions.- Chapter 13 - Writing your own Load and Store Functions.- Chapter 14 - Know Your Pig latin scripts.- Chapter 15 - Data formats.- Chapter 16 - Optimization.- Chapter 17 - Other Hadoop tools.- Appendix A - Builtin Functions.- Appendix B - Apache Pig in Apache Ambari.- Appendix C - HBaseStorage and ORCSTorage options.