Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : Oozie

Oozie, an open source project, is implemented as a Java web application that runs in a Java servlet container and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. It is a workflow scheduling system to manage Hadoop jobs. Oozie combines multiple jobs sequentially into one logical unit of work. It is integrated with the Hadoop stack, with YARN… Continue reading Term of the Week : Oozie

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : Apache Tez

The Apache Tez project is an extensible framework built on top of Apache Hadoop YARN. It is used to process data, that earlier took multiple MR jobs, now in a single Tez job which uses Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) for data processing. It is used for building high performance batch and interactive data processing applications.… Continue reading Term of the Week : Apache Tez

Tuesday Big Data Series

SQL and HiveQL query examples

Well, we know that HiveQL is very similar to SQL. The detailed Hive Language Manual describes all the important functions and semantics that are used in Hive. Please find below some examples to get you started on Hive. If you have been using SQL in the past and are familiar with the semantics, see how you can use… Continue reading SQL and HiveQL query examples

Monday Technology Series

What is Apache Tez?

The Apache Tez project is an extensible framework built on top of Apache Hadoop YARN. It is used to process data, that earlier took multiple MR jobs, now in a single Tez job which uses Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) for data processing. It is used for building high performance batch and interactive data processing applications. It drastically improves… Continue reading What is Apache Tez?

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : Apache Pig

The term Apache Pig  refers to an open source scripting platform by Apache used for analyzing and processing large data sets. It allows users to write complex map reduce problems using a simple scripting language called Pig Latin. Pig translates the Pig Latin script into MapReduce so that it can be executed within YARN for access to a… Continue reading Term of the Week : Apache Pig

Tuesday Big Data Series

Hive or Pig?

Which one of them is your favorite – Hive or Pig? What do you prefer to work with? People often confuse as to when to use Hive and when to use Pig. And, while in most of the cases, either of it can be used, the question that arises is why both of them exist in… Continue reading Hive or Pig?

Monday Technology Series

What is Apache Hive?

Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop which allows querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. It provides an SQL-like language called as HiveQL with schema on read and transparently converts queries to map reduce, tez or spark jobs. All these execution engines run on Hadoop YARN. The HiveQL language also… Continue reading What is Apache Hive?